IRVINE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–TP-Link Systems Inc., a global leader in networking and smart home solutions, today announced the establishment of its new global headquarters in the United States. This strategic move marks a significant milestone for the company, solidifying its presence in the U.S. market and enhancing its global competitiveness.
“The relocation of our global headquarters to the United States represents a pivotal moment in TP-Link’s history, reinforcing our commitment to the U.S. market and enhancing our ability to innovate and compete on a global scale”
To support this move, TP-Link Global and TP-Link USA have merged to form TP-Link Systems Inc., serving as the parent company overseeing all regional and international offices. Previously, TP-Link operated dual headquarters in Singapore and Irvine, California. The new entity serves as the central hub for the company’s worldwide operations, with all offices reporting directly to the U.S.-based global headquarters.
“The relocation of our global headquarters to the United States represents a pivotal moment in TP-Link’s history, reinforcing our commitment to the U.S. market and enhancing our ability to innovate and compete on a global scale,” said Jeff Barney, the newly appointed president of TP-Link Systems Inc. “We’re dedicated to contributing to the local economy, creating jobs, and continuing to deliver innovative product offerings that meet the evolving needs of our customers in the U.S. and across the globe. By establishing our global headquarters here in the United States, we’re not just expanding our presence – we’re making a long-term commitment to American consumers and businesses.”
With more than 25 years of technology industry experience, Barney previously served as COO of TP-Link USA Corp., leading the rapid market share gains of the company’s retail business.
This strategic shift reinforces TP-Link’s dedication to product innovation and market leadership in the networking and smart home industries. Leveraging its global expertise and vision, TP-Link is poised to enter a new era of growth and innovation, with the United States at the center of its global operations.
For more information, please visit www.tp-link.com.
About TP-Link Systems Inc.
Headquartered in the United States, TP-Link Systems Inc. is a global provider of reliable networking devices and smart home products, consistently ranked as the world’s top provider of Wi-Fi devices. The company is committed to delivering innovative products that enhance people’s lives through faster, more reliable connectivity. With a commitment to excellence, TP-Link serves customers in over 170 countries and continues to grow its global footprint.
— Plume WorkPass for Very Small Businesses (VSBs), and Plume Uprise for Multi-Dwelling Units (MDUs) are offered first by J:COM in Japan; Plume HomePass Residential Services Suite is now available also to Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) subscribers –
PARIS, Oct. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Network X — J:COM, Japan’s largest Multiple System Operator (MSO), and Plume, the creator of the world’s first SaaS experience platform for communications service providers (CSPs) and their subscribers, have expanded their partnership beyond the residential segment with new services across Japan. The new services include WorkPass, featuring a bespoke solution for very small businesses; and Uprise, enabling property owners and managers to provide turnkey experiences for Multi-Dwelling Unit (MDU) tenants with seamless connectivity, access controls, and property management.
Additionally, J:COM is now broadening its Plume-powered offerings beyond its cable infrastructure to J:COM’s residential subscribers on its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) footprint. Already widely deployed in Japan across J:COM since 2019, and many other smaller MSOs in syndication with J:COM since 2020, the Plume HomePass suite of services offers the highest possible quality experiences over secure, managed WiFi and J:COM’s ultra-high-performance broadband connections.
“J:COM continues to invest in best-in-class experiences with our partner Plume, and we are excited to explore new business opportunities in the small business and MDU segments in Japan,” said Mr. Yoichi Iwaki, President and Representative Director of J:COM. “We value our long-standing relationship and are excited to grow with Plume in market segments beyond residential. Our ability to leverage the same, scalable cloud platform across residential, small business and MDU market segments creates tremendous operational efficiencies, flexibility, forecast tolerance, and savings.”
Powering all three solutions across these market segments under the hood is Plume’s Haystack services suite which learns from a base of over 60 million locations and billions of devices and applications. Haystack leverages a massive, proprietary data set and AI for real-time access, analytics, insights, and both reactive & preemptive network operations and support actions.
“We are honored and thrilled to be expanding our relationship with J:COM and leaning-in with additional, market leading services together,” said Fahri Diner, Founder and CEO at Plume. “We believe that J:COM is the leading provider of ‘4D-Broadband’ in Japan – broadband measured not only along downlink and uplink Speeds, but also along the vectors of Reliability, Consistency, and Availability. Delivering delightful end-user experiences for every application, on any device, for anyone, anytime, anywhere is the ultimate catalyst for sustainable growth and subscriber loyalty – we are excited about combining our platform with J:COM’s 4D-Broadband to make all of this happen in Japan.”
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Plume is the creator of the world’s first SaaS experience platform for communications service providers (CSPs) and their subscribers, deployed in more than 60 million locations globally. As the only open and hardware-independent, cloud-controlled solution, Plume enables the rapid delivery of new services for smart homes, small businesses and beyond, at massive scale. On the front end, Plume delivers self-optimizing, adaptive WiFi, cybersecurity, access, parental controls and more. CSPs get robust data- and AI-driven back-end applications for unprecedented visibility, insights, support, operations and marketing. Plume leverages OpenSync®, an open-source framework that comes pre-integrated and supported on the leading silicon, CPE and platform SDKs.
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About JCOM Co., Ltd. Established in 1995, JCOM Co., Ltd. (J:COM) is Japan’s largest multiple system and multiple channel operator. In system operation, J:COM provides cable television, high speed internet access, telephony, mobile, electric power service, and services based on IoT devices to customers through 11 consolidated subsidiaries at the local level serving 5.68million subscribing households in Sapporo, Sendai, Kanto, Kansai, and Kyushu-Yamaguchi regions. The number of serviceable households or “homes passed” in J:COM franchise areas is 22.42 million. In channel operation, J:COM invests in and operates 14 thematic channels which are provided to CATV, satellite and telecom operators.
RDK and MediaTek Unveil New Hardware Reference Platform for Wi-Fi 7 Broadband CPE
PARIS, October 3, 2024 – In advance of the annual NetworkX conference, RDK Management and MediaTek unveiled a new RDK-B hardware reference platform designed to enable broadband operators, CPE manufacturers, and app developers to rapidly test and launch new Wi-Fi 7 RDK-B routers and gateways. By combining open-source hardware powered by MediaTek with RDK’s open-source software, companies now have an easy-to-use platform to accelerate their RDK-B development and deployment efforts.
RDK is an open-source software solution deployed on more than 100 million devices that standardizes core functions used in broadband and video devices. For broadband specifically, RDK-B provides core functionalities including device management, telemetry, Wi-Fi services, Ethernet access, IPv6 transitioning and more that work across all major network access technologies including DOCSIS, GPON, DSL, and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA). By packaging and open sourcing these functions in a single standard software stack, service providers can develop, deploy, and manage a consistent set of broadband services across SoCs and OEMs for use across their networks and geographic footprints.
“This new open reference hardware, powered by MediaTek, gives the RDK community a powerful new tool to innovate with next-gen broadband applications and services atop of RDK-B,” said Jason Briggs, President and General Manager of RDK. “By leveraging both open-source software and open-source hardware, companies can accelerate their RDK development and deployment initiatives in an easier and more frictionless way. MediaTek is recognized for delivering cost-effective and high-quality SoC solutions, and we’re very grateful for their efforts to bring this compelling new RDK-B reference board to the RDK community.”
“As a global leader in wireless connectivity, MediaTek’s collaboration with RDK Management underscores our commitment to driving Wi-Fi 7 technology to more markets like the open-source community,” said Alan Hsu, Corporate Vice President, Intelligent Connectivity Business Unit at MediaTek. “We strive to provide the fastest, most reliable and always-on Wi-Fi performance, which is ideal for the MediaTek Filogic 880 tri-band platform as the chosen solution on the Banana Pi-R4 Wi-Fi 7 router reference design. This will not only enable us to reach a broader developer base in the open-source community, but it will also allow easy access for operators, manufacturers and developers who seek to adopt open-source software with the latest connectivity features.”
Technical Specs
The new Banana Pi BPI-R4 router board gateway is powered by MediaTek Filogic 880 SoC. It provides a unique single-chip MLO (Multi-link operation) architecture that optimizes performance in Wi-Fi 7 networks designed to dramatically lower latency compared to alternatives. The BPI-RF router also includes:
The Banana Pi reference board is available to purchase online at Amazon.com, and the newest RDK-B software code to flash onto the device will be available in Q4 2024. More information about RDK is at www.rdkcental.com.
About RDK Management
RDK Management is an open-source consortium that manages RDK for the global community. RDK is an open-source software solution that standardizes core functions used in broadband, video, and IoT devices. Deployed on more than 100 million devices, RDK enables service providers to control their device diagnostics data, business models, and apps to improve the customer experience and drive business results. The RDK community is comprised of more than 600 companies including CPE manufacturers, SoC vendors, software developers, system integrators, and service providers. For more information on the tools, training, and events provided by RDK Management, please visit: www.rdkcentral.com.
According to Statista, the global Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market is expected to grow from 544 billion U.S. dollars in 2022 to about 3.3 trillion U.S. dollars by 2030. While this presents a huge potential for hardware suppliers operating in the space, it also heightens the need for highly scalable and intelligent systems to manage exceptionally complex and often geographically dispersed communications networks.
As a key pillar of Industry 4.0, IIoT powers digital transformation through a connected network of assets. Harnessing automation, AI, ML, cloud, and edge computing technologies with advanced networking capabilities, it streamlines processes through analytics-enabled productivity optimization to refine and improve industrial operational processes.
Through the interconnected network of assets, the IIoT ably supports the integration of business processes and management systems across industries such as mining, manufacturing, utility, energy management and oil and gas.
The IIoT stack is a layered combination. At the base is the device layer consisting of the hardware, covered with the network layer of communications protocols, followed by the service layer of applications, and topped with the content layer of user interface devices.
The digital network is the integrating element and the fuel that powers the IIoT.
Digital Transformation Powering IIoT Adoption
The need to remain relevant and competitive is driving industries to effect digital transformation by adopting the latest technology solutions. While IIoT enhances efficiency through operational technologies (OT) that monitor, detect, and control physical devices, processes and events, high-performance wireless connectivity is critical to running the systems and processes. Consistent, seamless network connectivity is the cornerstone, making network health monitoring and management an imperative for smooth functioning.
The convergence of operational and informational technologies is giving rise to smart, intelligent processes which support machine-to-machine communications. These use a blend of automation, remote monitoring and predictive maintenance capabilities for precise operations, speed and control of equipment and processes.
Power of Partnerships
While industries adopt, onboard, and invest in cutting-edge emergent technologies for their core processes, external specialist software that optimizes processes beyond core systems plays a significant role. Such specialist software enhances functionalities, contributing towards efficient resource usage and increased productivity. These expert-developed solutions allow enterprises to focus on their core operations while avoiding the high costs and scope limitations associated with developing such specialized tools in-house.
Partnering with a process optimizer is a valuable addition which helps in evaluating current improvements to identify and remediate inefficiencies and eventually deliver a superior experience.
This is where solution providers such as Aprecomm provide real value to enhance performance and ROI by ensuring consistent, reliable, and always-on systems.
Nokia’s MXIE: revolutionizing IIoT
The Nokia MX Industrial Edge (MXIE) is a future-ready solution that uses powerful on-premises OT edge to allow enterprises to process machines and industrial systems data at the source in real time while retaining data sovereignty. Nokia’s MXIE is successfully accelerating the digitalization of Industry 4.0 use cases for asset-intensive industries like mines, ports, energy utilities, warehouses, and factories.
The Nokia Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) is a private wireless connectivity solution powered by MXIE designed to provide deterministic and pervasive connectivity to accelerate the digital transformation of industrial operations technology (OT) environments. It can now offer to concurrently run Wi-Fi (DAC WiFi).
Aprecomm’s automated support and Nokia’s MXIE: powering a new age in IIoT
In the latest development, Nokia has chosen to enrich their DAC WiFi solution with Aprecomm AI-powered network performance-optimizing capabilities. Aprecomm’s solutions will be available in the MXIE application catalog to help enhance DAC WiFi’s performance starting in the final quarter of 2024.
Why Aprecomm?
Aprecomm’s applications suite promises to enable industrial enterprises to optimise WiFi performance across their operations, also providing access to advanced data and analytics to monitor their networks and streamline operations, reducing costly downtime and bringing greater performance insight. The partnership includes the integration of Aprecomm’s software into Nokia‘s DAC Wi-Fi solution elements.
This new partnership marks a new application for Aprecomm’s CX applications suite that has helped both broadband service providers and businesses transform their approaches to connectivity. By using sophisticated artificial intelligence—including a unique quality of experience algorithm—Aprecomm is paving the way to an advanced monitoring and troubleshooting approach to managed WiFi, tuning the network to the unique needs of the specific operation and application in real time.
Aprecomm as an enabler and optimizer
As a network intelligence platform, Aprecomm is a leading, globally present enabler. Since its inception, Aprecomm has successfully enabled homes and enterprises to use optimizer solutions.
With its advanced, intuitive network maintenance and management capabilities, the scope for Aprecomm’s suite deployment has evolved and is now well-placed to meet the need for ensuring uninterrupted, seamless connectivity in mission-critical industrial applications.
The upcoming partnership with Nokia is a testament to its relevance and suitability. Aprecomm promises seamless connectivity through its intelligent, intuitive network solution that monitors, measures, and remediates, using AIOps to resolve, warn and rebalance the Wi-Fi network proactively.
Making use of the potent combination of automation, AI, and ML, the Aprecomm suite of products is primed to deploy, integrate, and operate smoothly, with minimal downtime, making it an unmatched feature.
Additionally, Aprecomm’s interoperability makes it a tech-agnostic offering, eliminating any concerns about incompatibility issues. Lastly, scalability is a major advantage, given the exponential growth in device numbers since the widespread adoption of industrial IoT technologies.
Network connectivity is the backbone of Industry 4.0
Securing high-speed, reliable Industrial connectivity is a top priority in an industrial environment. Connectivity is crucial to IIoT. The IIoT is a fast-expanding realm of connected devices and sensors with additional pressure to speed up time-to-process, reduce latency and enhance real-time decision-making.
The success of IIoT depends on the ability to connect with gateways, apps, servers, routers, and other devices. Execution of tasks too can happen only when they can communicate machine to machine and exchange data. Industrial connectivity demands extensive coverage, elastic bandwidth, low latency, data security, and data throughput without adversely impacting cost.
The solution lies in smart remote monitoring and managing of networks, leveraging network intuitive, self-healing Aprecomm offerings that are designed to meet such demands.
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Silicon Labs, a leader in secure, intelligent wireless technology for a more connected world, delivered the opening keynote for the inaugural embedded world North America today, with CEO Matt Johnson and CTO Daniel Cooley discussing how AI is driving a revolution in IoT, while detailing the continued success of the company’s growing Series 2 platform and upcoming Series 3 platform.
“AI is rapidly becoming a key growth catalyst that will enable the number of IoT devices to reach over a 100 billion in the next decade,” said Silicon Labs President & CEO Matt Johnson. “Our upcoming Series 3 platform’s unparalleled capabilities and productivity will unlock new applications and new capabilities across a vast range of industries, from manufacturing and retail to transportation, healthcare, energy distribution, fitness, and agriculture, helping transform each sector in remarkable ways.”
To realize this vision, IoT devices need to bring powerful upgrades in connectivity, compute, security, and AI/ML capabilities. Silicon Labs today revealed more information on the Series 3 platform that will make that a reality.
Series 3 SoCs Will Feature World’s Most Nimble Modem, Most Secure and Scalable Memory
Series 3 devices will be able to answer the challenges that the continued acceleration of IoT poses: demands for more processing power at far-edge devices across all IoT applications in key areas including, but not limited to, smart cities and civil infrastructure, commercial buildings, retail and warehouses, smart factories and Industry 4.0, smart homes, connected health, and the demand for increasingly portable, secure, compute-intensive applications. They do this by addressing the key needs of the growing IoT:
A key driver in the design for this IoT revolution is data, which flows between edge devices to the cloud and back again. This two-directional flow makes IoT edge devices an ideal partner in the growing world of AI. Not only can the devices be used to make limited decisions at the edge, like smart thermostats that assess ambient temperatures and adjust a home’s HVAC, but also with the advent of massive cloud-based AI applications, edge devices can also play a critical role as data collectors and apply their ML abilities to filter the valuable data from the chaff better. The ability to identify and transmit the data for the “corner cases” that AI operators value to make their systems more intelligent.
The first Series 3 SoC is currently being sampled by customers, and more information will be revealed in the first half of 2025.
Series 1 and Series 2 SoCs Continue to Break the Air Gap
Silicon Labs Series 1 and Series 2 devices continue to be successful in helping to scale the IoT, provide secure, robust connectivity, and open up new applications. The Silicon Labs Series 2 platform grows today with the general availability of a family of new Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth LE ICs: the SiWG917 wireless MCU (SoC), the SiWN917 network-co-processor for hosted applications, and the SiWT917 radio co-processor IC targeted for applications running higher end operating systems. The SiWx917 family is designed from the ground-up for ultra-low-power Wi-Fi 6 applications, offering up to 2 years battery life on a single AAA battery in select IoT applications.
Earlier this year, Silicon Labs announced the BG26 and MG26 devices for Bluetooth and 802.15.4 connectivity. These wireless SoCs are built to be future proof as the needs of the IoT grow and feature the same Matrix Vector Processor for dedicated machine learning as the upcoming Series 3. The MG26 and BG26 doubled their predecessor’s Flash, RAM, and GPIO, and this innovation earned them one of IoT Evolution’s Product of the Year awards.
Silicon Labs Series 2 devices also serve an emerging area around Ambient IoT. This exciting new technology allows IoT devices to draw power from ambient sources in their environment, like indoor or outdoor ambient light, ambient radio waves, and kinetic motion. In partnership with PMIC manufacturer e-peas, Silicon Labs announced the xG22E, a new ultra-low power variant of the xG22 wireless SoC that has a substantially reduced power budget and advanced sleep/wake engines that allow it to operate within the ambient IoT power envelope. This broadly applies to sensors, switches, and commercial applications like electronic shelf labels.
There is still more to come for Series 2 in 2025 and Series 1, Series 2, and Series 3 will co-exist as strong offerings for vast amount of IoT applications.
Learn More About the Future of IoT at the Silicon Labs Works With Developers Conference
These SoCs are just a few members of the broadest portfolio of wireless SoCs and MCUs designed for the IoT. There is no other IoT vendor that matches the breadth, depth, and expertise of Silicon Labs.
To convey that expertise to IoT developers and designers, Silicon Labs is hosting its fifth annual Works With Virtual Developers Conference on November 20 and 21. Free to attend, Works With is the premier developer event for the IoT with over 30 sessions, keynotes, and labs, they can hear about the trends shaping the IoT from experts at Silicon Labs and other industry leaders.
Register for Works With 2024 Virtual and begin building an agenda today.
About Silicon Labs
Silicon Labs is a trailblazer in wireless connectivity for the Internet of Things. Its integrated hardware and software platform, intuitive development tools, and unmatched ecosystem support make Silicon Labs the ideal long-term partner in building advanced industrial, commercial, and home and life applications. Silicon Labs leads the industry in high performance, low power, and security with support for the broadest set of multi-protocol solutions.
The COVID-19 world dynamic has changed how businesses distribute goods and services, how personnel go about their everyday activities, and what sorts of services they provide. This has majorly impacted many sectors of the industry while others have had to adapt majorly. Many companies were forced to lay off employees, shutter branches and operations, and even close permanently.
COVID-19 limits infrastructure and transport sales to businesses, creating numerous new market problems. Managed service providers (MSPs) are challenged with generating new income sources as a result of these negative consequences. Big problems like the cloud migration trend and rising unpredictability among the customers have proved to be huge. At such times, an MSP needs insightful and 247 available services that can help networks in terms of big data and critical insights. This is where the Virtual Wireless Expert from Aprecomm comes in.
Because of the virus outbreak shutdowns, 51% of MSPs saw a monthly revenue drop. Many consumers found themselves were unable to process payments provided under MSP contracts.
According to another survey, the top MSP issue in 2020 due to the pandemic would be company development, followed by financial challenges, sales and marketing, and adapting to client demands. Remote access and working remotely are now driving the most substantial improvements in MSP services, with new income streams such as business operations and entrepreneurial ecosystem solutions. With such a trend, the role of the Virtual Wireless Expert by Aprecomm could be pivotal. With the addition of gaining insights and having a well-rounded network management system, MSPs could be able to get back on their feet easily.
Wireless network monitoring is a service that continually monitors and verifies a wireless channel’s smart devices, such as routers, network connections, and laptops. Wi-Fi efficiency and reliability are improved with monitoring tools, ensuring that links are never dropped or slowed. Now that staff are controlled remotely and efficiency is dependent on solid connectivity, these factors are critical for businesses of all sizes.
Businesses rely on high-quality networks that can manage conversations, video calls, video broadcasts, uploads and transfers, and other activities. There are many more gadgets to care for than it’s ever been, including Internet of Things (IoT) equipment like watches, in addition to pandemic issues and remote work. Organizations may find it difficult to deal with the ensuing congestion and connection issues that these technological advances bring.
Performance measurement is the key to improved Wi-Fi because that allows issues to be handled sooner and potentially corrected well before end-user notices. For many industries today, Wireless monitoring has changed the game. In order to keep operating efficiently, industries such as finance, healthcare, and others will have to take serious strides.
As part of their managed hosting services, MSPs may begin assisting clients in locating and resolving WLAN problems. Customers want options that will continually monitor Wi-Fi results in line with contractual requirements (SLAs), give key information, track the correct metrics, and provide the user with Wi-Fi analytics in a straightforward manner. Teams also want immediate warnings when the WLAN falls below previously established benchmarks.
Every Managed Service Provider needs that one thing in their profile that sets them apart. With the help of Aprecomm’s Virtual Wireless expert, there can be a world of enhancements to the services provided. With the help of the Virtual Wireless Expert network monitoring services, you will be able to avail yourself a world of benefits such as:
Enhancing your services provides additional help to consumers while also boosting your income possibilities.
The advantages grow when you offer devices or network connections that will be used in new distant Wi-Fi settings. Wireless network monitoring solutions that incorporate mobile security tools will provide proactive information into how the network services and actions to proactively develop or create systems.
With the help of network monitoring services, wireless networks could be perceived altogether in a different way. These networks would be ideal sources of information and crucial data for Managed Service Providers along the way. By offering network monitoring services like that of Aprecomm’s Wireless expert, many clients would benefit greatly from the wide range of services available. This added stream of services will also generate better income, creating a win-win situation for everyone.
Austin, TX and Washington, D.C. – October 4, 2024 – We commend the Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Rosenworcel on the proposal to revise existing regulations to enable the latest generations of Wi-Fi® – Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 – to access additional 6 GHz spectrum to deliver faster, more reliable, and robust connectivity. This expansion is essential for supporting next-generation innovations in areas like smart homes, Internet of Things (IoT), telemedicine, and AR/VR. These advancements not only enhance everyday user experiences but also foster economic growth by driving technological innovation, creating jobs, and improving operational efficiencies across various industries.
The proposal builds on proven interference mitigation techniques which already have been successfully implemented. These techniques ensure that high-performance Wi-Fi can operate effectively without causing harmful interference to essential incumbent services in the 6 GHz band.
Wi-Fi Alliance enthusiastically supports this proposal, reflecting the Wi-Fi industry’s confidence that expanded access to 6 GHz spectrum will continue to support transformative technologies while maintaining reliability of critical 6 GHz operations.
About Wi-Fi Alliance® | www.wi-fi.org
Wi-Fi Alliance® is the worldwide network of companies that brings you Wi-Fi®. Members of our collaboration forum come together from across the Wi-Fi ecosystem with the shared vision to connect everyone and everything, everywhere, while providing the best possible user experience. Since 2000, Wi-Fi Alliance has completed more than 80,000 Wi-Fi certifications. The Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ seal of approval designates products with proven interoperability, backward compatibility, and the highest industry-standard security protections in place. Today, Wi-Fi carries more than half of the Internet’s traffic in an ever-expanding variety of applications. Wi-Fi Alliance continues to drive the adoption and evolution of Wi-Fi, which billions of people rely on every day.
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HSINCHU, Taiwan – Oct. 9, 2024 – MediaTek today launched the Dimensity 9400, the company’s new flagship smartphone chipset optimized for edge-AI applications, immersive gaming, incredible photography, and more. The Dimensity 9400, the fourth and latest in MediaTek’s flagship mobile SoC lineup, offers a massive boost in performance with its second-generation All Big Core design built on Arm’s v9.2 CPU architecture, combined with the most advanced GPU and NPU for extreme performance in a super power-efficient design.
The Dimensity 9400 adopts MediaTek’s second-gen All Big Core design, integrating one Arm Cortex-X925 core operating over 3.62GHz, combined with 3x Cortex-X4 and 4x Cortex-A720 cores. This design offers 35% faster single-core performance and 28% faster multi-core performance compared to MediaTek’s previous generation flagship chipset, the Dimensity 9300. Built on TSMC’s second-generation 3nm process, the Dimensity 9400 is up to 40% more power-efficient than its predecessor, allowing users to enjoy longer battery life.
“The MediaTek Dimensity 9400 will continue furthering our mission to be the enablers of AI, supporting powerful applications that anticipate users’ needs and adapt to their preferences, while also fueling generative AI technology with on-device LoRA training and video generation,” said Joe Chen, President at MediaTek. “As the fourth-generation flagship chipset, the Dimensity 9400 continues to build on our momentum of steady growth in market share, and MediaTek’s legacy of delivering flagship performance in the most efficient design for the best user experiences.”
Packing MediaTek’s 8th Generation NPU, the Dimensity 940feature0 boasts a number of industry firsts for exceptional generative AI performance; it is the first mobile chipset to offer on-device LoRA training, high-quality on-device video generation, and developer support for Agentic AI. To allow users to take advantage of the latest agentic and generative AI applications, the Dimensity 9400 offers up to 80% faster large language model (LLM) prompt performance while also being up to 35% more power efficient than the Dimensity 9300.
The Dimensity 9400 also integrates MediaTek’s new Dimensity Agentic AI Engine (DAE), which is designed to turn traditional AI applications into sophisticated agentic AI applications. MediaTek is working with developers to offer a unified interface between AI agents, third-party APKs, and models that efficiently runs both edge AI and cloud services. This streamlined approach allows models to work with many different third-party APKs, which reduces development time and will help usher in a new ecosystem of agentic AI applications.
The 12-core Arm Immortalis-G925 delivers super immersive gaming experiences with up to 40% faster raytracing performance compared to the previous generation. The Dimensity 9400 also brings PC-level features to smartphones with opacity micromaps (OMM) support for realistic effects. The chipset’s powerful GPU also offers 41% peak performance boost with up to 44% power savings compared to the Dimensity 9300, allowing users to game for longer. Additionally, the Dimensity 9400 supports HyperEngine technology for super resolution and impressive picture quality, which is co-developed by MediaTek and Arm Accurate Super Resolution (Arm ASR).
With MediaTek Imagiq 1090, the Dimensity 9400 provides HDR video recording throughout the entire zoom range so users can snap the perfect moment from a distance; MediaTek’s Smooth Zoom technology also makes it easy to capture moving subjects. Additionally, it is designed to minimize power consumption while users are taking photos and videos, offering up to 14% lower power consumption in 4K60 video capture compared to the Dimensity 9300.
Additional features of the Dimensity 9400 include:
The first smartphones powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 9400 will be available in the market starting in Q4 of 2024. To learn more about MediaTek’s Dimensity portfolio, please visit: https://www.mediatek.com/products/smartphones-2/mediatek-dimensity-9400.
We’re excited to announce that Gartner® has recognized CommScope (RUCKUS) as a Visionary in the 2024 Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure.
Gartner analyzed various vendors in the field and recognized us as a Visionary based on our Completeness of Vision, which we believe has been key to enabling customers to create purpose-driven networks that meet the unique needs of their business and users in their vertical industries.
Gartner says in the report — “A vendor in the Visionaries quadrant demonstrates an ability to increase features in its offering to provide a unique and differentiated approach to the market. A Visionary will have innovated in one or more of the key areas of enterprise network technologies (for example, security, management or operational efficiency). The ability to apply differentiating functionality across an entire enterprise network infrastructure will affect its position.”
Over the past year, we’ve introduced a number of industry-leading RUCKUS innovations including our:
Together with our dedicated go-to-market reseller partners, we’re enabling enterprises to use these innovations to deliver exceptional network experiences to their students, residents, employees and others who count on fast, reliable connectivity.
About the Report
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure, By Tim Zimmerman, Christian Canales, Nauman Raja, Mike Leibovitz, 6 March 2024
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Welcome to Plume IQ – our reveal of data-driven intelligence and consumer insights from 3 billion connected devices and 60 million locations, managed by Plume’s cloud platform. The data below is from a sample of our locations gathered this year.
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| Many factors influence the way we use our devices – such as the time of year, work schedules, world events, school calendars, and holidays. Device type also influences a users behavior and content consumption. Some services such as Netflix, YouTube, and Facebook apps are popular across devices – while some other services can be very specific, such as work software on laptops.
Sometimes the device itself is less important than the choice of app or service being used. The demands of running an application such as Netflix, Zoom or games do not necessarily change between devices. Part of what makes a managed WiFi service successful is going beyond simply identifying the device and making real-time decisions on traffic based on how the device is being used. Knowing that a packet of data from Zoom should be prioritized, as opposed to a routine app update, improves the user experience. Based on our analysis of available data, one event that changes user behavior is the back-to-school season. Plume IQ looked at a period of two weeks in July and compared it to the period over Labor Day in the US to see how the start of school impacted behavior. A big change we identified is the use of laptops – 14% more laptops were identified after the return to school. Laptop use greatly outpaced the use of streaming boxes and TVs – use of these entertainment devices only increased by roughly 4%. Smartphone use remained generally even between the periods – and gaming consoles decreased almost 2%. The applications being used before school started compared to after did not change significantly. Of widely available applications, Plume saw YouTube, Netflix and Amazon Prime lead the way in data transmitted both before and after school started. We also saw that TikTok usage was down about 4% – time to focus on homework! |
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| Haystack |
| We’re excited to announce the release of the newly improved Haystack suite, Plume’s latest upgrade to our customer experience management platform.
As a reader of Plume IQ, you are familiar with the fact that data is at the heart of our offerings. Plume uses the signals that come from operating networks around the world to improve our products. Whether that is to increase how well our algorithms work for everyone or make sure that a support agent at a CSP has the information they need, data informs our products and how we operate. One of the best expressions of that is Haystack, our platform for CSP network diagnostics, support, and management. The new version of Haystack comes with significant improvements, replacing the existing infrastructure with a more robust solution. Here’s what’s new:
If you’d like to explore the newly improved Haystack in greater detail, please request a demo here> |
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| News Roundup |
| “Technology has evolved on both sides of the equation—in the home and for the service provider. As Plume has matured, we have deepened the platforms that we give individuals, families, support center technicians and CSP executives to manage networks intelligently.” – Jasna Mihelj Coustaury
Bell has launched its Bell Business Wi-Fi App for small businesses in Ontario and Quebec, which lets small businesses easily manage their network. Plume’s Sean Robertson joined Darcy Richard from Bell to talk about the collaboration between the companies on small business products and what the future holds for SMEs. Check out CanadianSME Small Business Podcast here> “Managing culture in a rapidly changing business is not easy, particularly when it’s home to offices across the US, Canada, Switzerland, Slovenia, Poland, Taiwan, Japan, and India. But this is the task of Plume’s Chief Human Resources Officer, Iman Abbasi, the latest guest on the HR Grapevine podcast.” |
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