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David King, CEO of AirTight Networks
The New Economics of Wi-Fi
Wireless Broadband Alliance
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What’s Driving the Adoption Curve?
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What’s Driving the Adoption Curve?
• Plug ‘n Play experience
• More data!
• Privacy and security
• Context – based services
• High performance
• Availability & reliability
• Accelerate time to market
• Reduce onboarding costs
• Increase customer stickiness
TechnologyDrivers
• Cloud Wi-Fi
• Hotspot 2.0
• 802.11ac
• Internet of Things
CustomerExpectations
Service ProviderNeeds
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Carrier Grade Secure Cloud Wi-Fi
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Carrier Grade Secure Cloud Wi-Fi
• Economies of scale
• fully virtualized, controller-less cloud
architecture
• centralized management of thousands of
APs
• multi-tenancy and server clustering
• Carrier grade availability & reliability
• Drop-ship “ready” - rapid provisioning &
low cost installation
• NFV based management of APs
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Carrier Grade Secure Cloud Wi-Fi
• Economies of scale
• fully virtualized, controller-less cloud
architecture
• centralized management of thousands of
APs
• multi-tenancy and server clustering
• Carrier grade availability & reliability
• Drop-ship “ready” - rapid provisioning &
low cost installation
• NFV based management of APs
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Carrier-Grade Cloud Architecture
Compute & memory on VMware ESXi hypervisor + disc in EMC SAN
Provisioning Resilient Service Discovery Layer
“Super-tenant” Manager Instances
“Multi-tenant “Manager Instances
Guest Manager & Analytics Engine
GraftsDatabase Cluster
Web Serve
rs
Fault Tolerance and Data Replication
………
Fault Tolerance, HA and Disaster Recovery
AnalyticsApp
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I’m Feeling LuckyGoogle Search
If you don’t do it, who will?|
Monetization Thyself!
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I’m Feeling LuckyGoogle Search
If you don’t do it, who will?|
AmazonAppleFacebookGoogleMicrosoftNetflixYahoo!…
Monetization Thyself!
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Intra-day or times of the day
Daily, weekly, monthly trends
Specific store or across selected stores
Raw data (to generate custom reports)
How We Can Report it
What We Can Measure
Analytics for Business Intelligence
Presence• Total Foot Traffic• Catchment Area
Visitor Traffic• Dwell Time
(or Visit Duration)
Loyalty• Repeat Visitors• Visit Frequency• Visit Recency
Engagement• Conversion and
Bounce Rates• Social Wi-Fi
Demographics• Social Wi-Fi Visitor
Logs
Wi-Fi Usage• Device Types• Data Traffic• Sesssion Duration
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Security Problems Will Be More Pervasive!
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Security Problems Will Be More Pervasive!
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Security Problems Will Be More Pervasive!
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Security Problems Will Be More Pervasive!
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Wireless Intrusion Prevention System (WIPS)
Automatic Device Classification
No signatures required
ReliableThreat Prevention
ReliableThreat Prevention
AccurateLocation Tracking
BYOD Policy Enforcement
AutomatedCompliance Reporting
IoT Ready
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Wireless Intrusion Prevention System (WIPS)
Automatic Device Classification
No signatures required
ReliableThreat Prevention
ReliableThreat Prevention
AccurateLocation Tracking
BYOD Policy Enforcement
AutomatedCompliance Reporting
IoT Ready
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The New Economics of Wi-FiStrong User Experience = Increased Customer Traction
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Deployment• Rapid time-to-deployment• Economies of scale• Flexible business models• Custom branded guest Wi-Fi• Rich analytics & API for
billing/management
The New Economics of Wi-FiStrong User Experience = Increased Customer Traction
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Deployment• Rapid time-to-deployment• Economies of scale• Flexible business models• Custom branded guest Wi-Fi• Rich analytics & API for
billing/managementTrust• Out-of-the-box
defense• Security compliance • Privacy protection• Rapid threat
response
The New Economics of Wi-FiStrong User Experience = Increased Customer Traction
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Deployment• Rapid time-to-deployment• Economies of scale• Flexible business models• Custom branded guest Wi-Fi• Rich analytics & API for
billing/managementTrust• Out-of-the-box
defense• Security compliance • Privacy protection• Rapid threat
response
The New Economics of Wi-FiStrong User Experience = Increased Customer Traction
Engagement• Social Wi-Fi• Rich visitor analytics• High value offers• Context driven services
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Deployment• Rapid time-to-deployment• Economies of scale• Flexible business models• Custom branded guest Wi-Fi• Rich analytics & API for
billing/managementTrust• Out-of-the-box
defense• Security compliance • Privacy protection• Rapid threat
response
The New Economics of Wi-FiStrong User Experience = Increased Customer Traction
Trusted Relevant Experiences
Engagement• Social Wi-Fi• Rich visitor analytics• High value offers• Context driven services
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