Tag Archive: Phil Solis

From ABI Research’s press release:

Wireless LAN switch vendors once promoted their solutions as ways to centralize management of wireless LAN, to manage security, spectrum, access points and users. More recently, they have reinvented themselves as purveyors of VoWi-Fi platforms, according to ABI Research Senior Analyst, Phil Solis. “Using these vendors’ technologies,” he says, “you can allow users to connect automatically to access points experiencing lower traffic.” Such solutions also help users achieve various kinds of Quality of Service. As users move from place to place, they can also better enable handoffs and roaming, by pre-authenticating them on the next access point. “In one sense it’s an opportunity for such switch vendors to differentiate themselves,” adds Solis, “but so many of them are now taking up this opportunity that the question really becomes, ‘who does it better?’”  Read more...