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Jisc joins the Wireless Broadband Alliance

Jisc has joined the Wireless Broadband Alliance, a Wi-Fi industry group focused on global collaboration and interoperability across the sector. The WBA’s objectives – to define best practice, foster adoption of new technologies, and promote thought-leadership – align closely with our own, and we believe present opportunities that will benefit our education and research members. […]

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Jisc’s Wireless Census – a retrospective

There’s been a huge sea change in how we work, how teaching and learning is delivered, and how services are accessed this year. In this context, we likely face changes to how organisations manage their network and wireless facilities. Jisc is currently running a piece of research on the state of wireless networking in the […]

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Wi-Fi 6E – the Wi-Fi refresh we all need?

As I write on February 3rd, OfCom has just launched a consultation around release of a block of 6GHz spectrum for wireless comms. It seems a good moment to talk about Wi-Fi 6E.   Before we start, let’s be clear what we’re talking about. Most of us are comfortable discussing the zoo of 802.11 standards, […]