by Barry Manz | Aug 14, 2026 | From the Editor
Few concepts in wireless infrastructure have been promoted as confidently as Open RAN. The pitch was straightforward: break the radio access network into interoperable components, define open interfaces between them, and operators would no longer be tied to a single...
by Barry Manz | Jun 8, 2026 | From the Editor
Every new generation of Wi-Fi arrives carrying higher data rates than the last. Wi-Fi 5 hit 1 Gb/s, Wi-Fi 6 pushed into the high single digits, and Wi-Fi 7 now advertises a peak near 46 Gb/s. That’s more than an order of magnitude in a decade. But a data rate is...
by Barry Manz | Apr 20, 2026 | From the Editor
The Internet of Things spent its early years proving that devices could be connected to networks. That work is largely done. Today, the harder questions involve scale, reliability, and responsibility. IoT systems are no longer isolated experiments or pilot programs;...
