Edgewater Wireless’ WiFi3™ Chosen for Real-world Trial with First Fiterator-affiliated Operator
February 8, 2017 – Ottawa, Canada & Louisville, Colorado – Edgewater Wireless Systems Inc. (YFI; TSX.V) is pleased to announce that its WiFi3™ technology has been rigorously tested by Kyrio and proven to effectively solve real world High Density WiFi deployment challenges. Kyrio provides third-party certification, interoperability, performance, and compatibility testing for a wide variety of networked technology and devices.
“At Kyrio we focus our wireless testing on real world performance. That means simulating how WiFi works everywhere – in the real world, and this is the approach we took with testing Edgewater Wireless’ WiFi3™ Multi-channel Single Radio (MCSR) technology,” said Wylie Nelson, VP of Wireless & Testing Services for Kyrio. “We simulated real world high density environments, which are subject to wireless interference, overload of connected devices, capacity, and data demand, and found WiFi3™ met these performance challenges.”
Kyrio’s test results show WiFi3™ provides outstanding performance for wireless service providers and operators in high density networks, as well as community and venue WiFi. WiFi3™ offers excellent performance in mitigating the impacts of Adjacent and Co-channel interference, as well as offering very compelling deployment “total cost of ownership” (TCO) benefits over traditional, WiFi architecture. WiFi3™ also directly addresses the attenuated client issue, better know as the “sticky client” problem, where user devices have a tendancy to “stick” to the wireless router they are connected to rather than switch to a better connection on another available wireless radio.
Kyrio wireless testing profiles Wi-Fi devices, including network gateways, embedded and standalone Wi-Fi access points, antenna and enclosure designs, and end user devices. Kyrio’s Rohde & Schwarz anechoic chamber, lxia’s lxChariot and IxVeriWave equipment, octoBox testbed, and 5,000 sq. ft. test house provide environments engineered to meet the testing demands of devices deployed in today’s and tomorrow’s residential and commercial networks.
“Kyrio was able to develop a test plan that simulated the real world environments of our customers. WiFi3™ technology performs best where wireless interference and capacity impact WiFi,” said Eric Smith, VP of Product at Edgewater Wireless. “The team at Kyrio conducted exhaustive testing of our technology. They were able to demonstrate the real world performance advantages and capabilities of WiFi3™ for high density environments.”
The performance results were presented in a webinar hosted jointly by Kyrio and Edgewater Wireless in December 2016. The full report developed by Kyrio will be available following the conclusion of the CableLabs Winter Conference and available on the company’s website: www.edgewaterwireless.com/outperforms/
Edgewater Wireless is also pleased to announce that, as a direct result of its participation in the UpRamp Fiterator program, the company will be entering into trials of WiFi3™ in a large, high density venue in the United States. The trial will take place over several weeks this spring to test multiple features and functionality of WiFi3™ in a live performance venue. Tech trials of this nature are typically the first step in defining the capabilities of a technology within existing infrastructure as well as future commercial applications.
Edgewater’s WiFi3™ powered technology is the best Wi-Fi solution for carriers, service providers and systems integrators in high-density WiFi applications to address the evolving issues of adjacent channel and co-channel interference and congestion which is stretching WiFi to its breaking point. Edgewater’s patented technology solves the high-density WiFI problem while also significantly reducing the equipment investment and operating costs for new network deployments.
Edgewater Wireless Contact:
Matt Massey
VP, Marketing
T: +1 613-797-9628
E: mattm@edgewaterwireless.com
W: www.edgewaterwireless.com
Kyrio Contact:
Wayne Surdam
CableLabs & Kyrio
T: + 1.303.661.3766
E: w.surdam@cablelabs.com
W: www.kyrio.com
About Kyrio
Kyrio, a subsidiary of CableLabs, Inc., brings the value of proven communications-based technologies to businesses spanning consumer, enterprise, industrial, automotive, and health industries. Kyrio benefits its customers by delivering proven solutions and testing to improve wired and wireless networks and networked devices; including Wi-Fi performance testing, Wi-Fi roaming access, extended security management, and an improved online buying experience for home-based and business-class services.
Kyrio Testing Services provides certification, interoperability, performance, and compatibility testing for a wide variety of networked devices. Kyrio’s team of skilled engineers have for over 20 years delivered testing services on a global basis to enable device and service interoperability. Services include: CableLabs® DOCSIS® certification, IoT Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) certification, SDN and NFV integration, Wi-Fi performance and LTE-U interference testing, and much more.
Kyrio™ is a trademark of Kyrio, Inc. CableLabs® and DOCSIS® are registered trademarks of Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. Other CableLabs marks are listed at http://www.cablelabs.com/certqual/trademarks. All other makrs are the property of their respective owners.
About Edgewater Wireless Systems Inc.:
Edgewater Wireless develops and commercializes leading edge technologies and intellectual property for the communications market. Edgewater Wireless delivers advanced product solutions designed to meet the high-density, high quality of service (QoS) and high-reliability needs of service providers and their customers. Leveraging over twenty (20) patents, Edgewater’s WiFi3™ is redefining WiFi technology with its wide-band, multi-channel radio and high-capacity Access Point solutions, and delivering next generation WiFi, today.
The best solution for High-Density WiFi networks, Edgewater Wireless WiFi3™ powered access point products enable innovative service providers to plan, build and deploy reliable, high-capacity services (like VoWiFI) for high-density wireless data demand in any environment.
Do more with less! Fewer access points delivering high quality service at a lower overall deployment cost make our patented WiFi3™ technology the right choice for your next WiFi network.
Explore the evolution of Wi-Fi at www.EdgewaterWireless.com
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