Rise Broadband, a fixed wireless broadband service provider, has finalized an agreement with the City of Blair, Neb., and has activated transmission equipment on three city structures to expand the company’s internet and phone coverage, speed, and capacity for area homes and businesses.
“With our lease for three City facilities, we now provide Blair and surrounding Washington County communities with significantly improved internet and phone service,” John Krause, Rise Broadband’s area supervisor, states. “In doing so, the City generates additional revenue while customers are able to receive quality, affordable, and reliable high-speed service.”
Rise specializes in delivering broadband service and support to rural and suburban regions often unserved or underserved by wireline or cable providers. Rise Broadband’s coverage is available in parts of Nebraska as well as 15 other states.
SCTE reports it is beefing up learning opportunities at its fall Cable-Tec Expo in Denver. The group says the event will have a 36 percent increase in the educational component of the show, or a total of 98 presentations compared to 72 at the 2016 Expo. Workshops will address six key areas spanning established and next-generation technologies: Evolved Network—Wireline and Wireless; Cloud Virtualization; Security and Authentication; Business Services; the Customer Journey; and Future Services and Technologies. Additional topic areas will include access technologies and the Internet of Things.
The 2017 Expo will be held October 17-20 at the Colorado Convention Center.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is in transit this week, visiting three mid-Atlantic states. His trip began in Wardensville, W.Va., on Monday, and he is scheduled to pass through Virginia before ending his journey in Crownsville, Md., on Wednesday.
During his tour, Pai is meeting with rural broadband providers, entrepreneurs, and small businesses to discuss how best to close the nation’s digital divide. Along the way, Chairman Pai will also be holding events with U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia and representatives of Maryland Governor Larry Hogan.
Quantenna Communications, a provider of WiFi solutions, and AirTies, an international provider of in-home wireless systems, report they have entered into a strategic partnership to provide a complete mesh WiFi solution for service providers worldwide.
The partnership between Quantenna and AirTies offers Internet Service Providers (ISPs) with a complete WiFi hardware and software solution, performance monitoring, and improvement capabilities to provide a managed WiFi mesh solution for their subscribers and the ability to differentiate with new classes of premium WiFi services. As part of the deal, AirTies’ mesh software will run on Quantenna’s WiFi access point and client solutions.
“Quantenna and AirTies recognize the rapidly increasing demands of future whole-home WiFi connectivity and higher expectations of their customers,” Quantenna’s SVP of Marketing and Business Development Lionel Bonnot says. “With this partnership that leverages our hardware and software platforms, we can help our service provider customers future-proof their solutions and deliver unprecedented total home WiFi performance and continuously raise the WiFi performance bar.”
AirTies’ WiFi mesh software support will be integrated into Quantenna’s range of WiFi access point and client solutions from QSR1000/2000 4×4 and QSR10G 8×8+4×4 to 2×4 and 2×2 MIMO. AirTies’ software can also turn residential gateways and wireless set-top boxes into additional mesh WiFi access points for enhanced in-home coverage.
Additionally, the software provides coordinated channel changes across the mesh network, client steering to the most optimum band and access point, and dynamic packet routing to improve whole-home coverage and performance. Home networks can also be monitored, providing WiFi performance insights for service providers that are optimized through the cloud.