Sweden-based Anyfi Networks has released a new Carrier Wi-Fi management system that can work across access points and gateways from multiple chipset manufacturers including Broadcom, Qualcomm Atheros, Ralink and Realtek to provide a carrier class mobility solution for enterprises and service providers. The solution is developed in close cooperation with several of the world's tier 1 operators over the last four years, according to Anyfi.
The patent pending Wi-Fi management solution is available as a virtual machine that can be deployed in a network functions virtualization (NFV) environment, supporting standard carrier Wi-Fi features such as radio link-level admission control, airtime fairness, optimized handovers, advanced traffic prioritization and an analytics platform for near real-time quality of experience monitoring.
Johan Almbladh, CTO of Anyfi Networks
For the first time operators can now deploy Wi-Fi services with strong QoS guarantees across millions of access points and residential gateways, even from different vendors.
Björn Smedman, CEO of Anyfi Networks
Carrier Wi-Fi is typically about expensive access points coupled with be-all, end-all management systems. We've taken a very different approach: Our customers typically already have thousands if not millions of access points installed in consumer homes and small businesses, and that equipment is already remotely managed e.g. with TR-069. What they want is to deploy a carrier Wi-Fi service across that infrastructure, and extending it with lower cost access points where needed. Our system lets them do that, without sacrificing quality of experience or negatively impacting their fixed-line subscribers.
