Technology insights

Estimating Wi-Fi7 Throughput: A Theoretical Approach

August 11, 2024

Wouldn’t it be great if you can get a second order estimate of the expected throughput of Wi-Fi7 technology? This can be done even before any investment in a wireless test campaign. Wireless performance tests are expensive, time consuming and cumbersome and are necessary once you get closer to your product form factor. Think about…
Wi-Fi Trigger Frames

August 4, 2024

Wi-Fi technology is fundamentally based on listen before accessing the share medium (CSMA-CA). This was adopted for fair sharing of the unlicensed spectrum in the 2.4, 5 and 6GHz band. With the scaling in number of spatial streams and channel bandwidth, Wi-Fi technology has able to match ISP’s access network line rates 1 Gbps DOCSIS…
Multi Access Edge compute

July 25, 2024

Multi Access Edge compute (MEC) reduces network latency by bringing cloud computing and 5G network operations closer to the RAN. It is meant to support 5G’s ultra reliable and low latency (URLLC) use cases, but tests results show otherwise.Tests from Spirent Communications show that the mean latency does reduce with a public MEC but the…
Edge compute with RPI5

February 9, 2024

If you have not noticed in the hubbub of Apple’s Vision Pro grand release, in October 2023, Raspberry Pi Ltd. has launched yet another credit card-sized powerful computing platform called Raspberry 5. Yes, there have been five successful platforms before, starting back in 2012. Source: http://tinyurl.com/4nymcwrv Don’t be fooled by the size of this device.…
Make Wireless Work-WPA3

February 1, 2024

Wi-Fi Protected Access 3 (WPA3) is the latest update to Wi-Fi security supported by some Wi-Fi5 and all Wi-Fi6, Wi-Fi7 certified devices. Unlike mere version updates, WPA3 emerges after a 15-year tenure of WPA2, addressing inherent vulnerabilities well-known within the networking industry. WPA2 is vulnerable to dictionary attacks, brute force attacks, and the most famous-Key…