But Aruba is correct in seeing a new opportunity emerge now: “Telcos can extend their 5G footprint into the enterprise and enable seamless Wi-Fi calling and gigabit-class guaranteed performance,” Aruba says in their press release here.Īruba also says they’re in the process of finalising Air Pass deals with major carriers. The technology to do this – meaning Passpoint – has been around for years. Extending 5G footprint into enterprisesĮnter Aruba’s Air Pass, which allows you to hand off the data or voice call from cellular (when you’re outside) to Wi-Fi 6 (when you’re inside). Hence whatever indoor cellular coverage problems exist today – and they are common – are in many cases going to get worse with 5G. In the case of 5G the problem is aggravated because the higher frequency bands used by 5G lend themselves poorly to penetrating walls and windows. The idea is to convince cellular operators to adopt the new and vastly improved Wi-Fi 6 standard as their preferred indoor wireless solution.Īruba’s new service is a concerted attempt at solving a persistent cellular coverage problem: Delivering indoor cellular services – for data and voice – from the outside is hard. The service is called Aruba Air Pass and it allows automatic handoff of data and voice calls between cellular and Wi-Fi networks by means of the Passpoint protocol, also known as Hotspot 2.0. Today Aruba Networks – a division of HPE – launched their bid for becoming a primary enabler of Wi-Fi 6-based indoor wireless services for cellular operators. Cisco launched their solution for mobile-Wi-Fi convergence last year with their OpenRoaming Federation. Mobile & Wi-Fi convergence – sometimes called mobile data offload – is picking up steam with Facebook-backed Telecom Infra Project (TIP) pushing for industry-wide adoption (we’ll have more to say about this shortly) and now also a new roaming service launched today by Aruba Networks called Aruba Air Pass. By Claus Hetting, Wi-Fi NOW CEO & Chairman
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