These are complementary standards rather than competing ones. Hotspot 2.0 is about certifying the hotspot itself, providing authentication using SIMs or certificates and the 802.11i standard, and ...

“Buzz” can come from unlikely sources. Earlier this year, at the Mobile World Congress, a number of people were expecting the discussion to be predominantly about LTE, given the tremendous ramp-up in ...

Smooth roaming from cell to Wi-Fi networks is finally seeing the light of day, with deployments at 21 U.S. airports and at two smaller sites in Europe debuting on Monday. Wi-Fi networks at some of ...

The most widely anticipated but least understood “next big thing” in the networked world is Hotspot 2.0 (HS 2.0). A multi-industry initiative or framework for automating many of today’s manual Wi-Fi ...

Ruckus Wireless has announced at the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) WiFi Global Congress being held in London, the introduction of the industry’s first commercially available products to be WiFi ...

Dave Stephenson is at the center of one of the most important efforts in mobile networking, the move to shepherd smartphones and other devices among Wi-Fi hotspots safely and automatically. [REVIEW: ...

Hotspot 2.0 is a new technology specification developed by members of the Wi-Fi Alliance ® (WFA) that dramatically simplifies and automates how users connect to and roam between Wi-Fi networks. Orange ...

In keeping with tradition, this year's WWDC keynote presented a massive amount of new information about the future of Apple's products. So much information is shared at WWDC that to catch it all, ...

Although vendor-written, this contributed piece does not advocate a position that is particular to the author’s employer and has been edited and approved by Network World editors. Why can’t connecting ...

iPhones and iPads running Apple's new iOS 7 later this year may be able to roam more easily between WiFi hotspots, thanks to quietly added support for Hotspot 2.0. The feature, confirmed among the new ...

It's tough to choose when you have no choice. T-Mobile's only LTE hotspot is … T-Mobile's only LTE hotspot. It has some things going for it: It's relatively inexpensive and has terrific battery life.