XCellAir launches Home Wi-Fi Advisor for ISPs to assess consumer Wi-Fi needs

San Diego, 17 January 2017: XCellAir&commerce;, the professional in Wi-Fi Quality of Experience (QoE), immediately declares the supply of its Whole Home Wi-Fi Advisor. The free device, obtainable on XCellAir’s website, demonstrates how web service suppliers (ISPs) and multi-system operators (MSOs) can interact residential clients in creating a personalized Wi-Fi service. It calculates the optimum Wi-Fi service configuration to guarantee ISPs and MSOs present dependable Wi-Fi efficiency and protection to clients in each room of the house.

Broadband clients are more and more reliant on good high quality Wi-Fi throughout the residence. Whether that’s to assist video streaming, residence working or the expansion of the ‘sensible residence’, the necessity for fast and dependable Wi-Fi is a should. Yet nearly all of customers have no idea how a lot bandwidth pace they want to assist their smartphones, tablets, laptops and streaming units, or if multiple router is required to assure Wi-Fi protection all through the complete residence.

XCellAir’s Whole Home Wi-Fi Advisor allows ISPs and MSOs to provide Wi-Fi companies that meet particular person buyer needs, as opposed to providing “speed-based” packages which are typically exhausting to translate into utilization needs. By asking a couple of easy questions, such because the variety of folks and measurement of a house, the variety of units, and the place the first web connection is situated, the Wi-Fi Advisor device calculates the Wi-Fi speeds wanted to assist units, in addition to the variety of entry factors required to guarantee excessive performing Wi-Fi.

Initial findings from the comfortable launch of XCellAir’s Wi-Fi Advisor present that:

  • The common family, sometimes made up of a single household of three folks, has round 14 web related units.
  • The common house is made up of two flooring, with the bulk maintaining their major Wi-Fi router on the primary/floor ground.
  • While the common Wi-Fi pace want for a family is 23 Mbps, the height pace wanted to assist all units throughout the house is 40 Mbps. However, it will solely enhance as extra 4K content material turns into obtainable from TV broadcasters and video content material suppliers.
  • Taking into consideration the variety of folks, units, and measurement of residence, the common family requires 2.6 entry factors so as to have full Wi-Fi protection all through the house.

“Thanks to the explosion of TV streaming companies and the appearance of sensible residence units, customers have gotten more and more depending on Wi-Fi throughout the residence. With so many extra connections, Wi-Fi not solely needs to assist an array of units and companies, it additionally needs to ‘simply work’ repeatedly on the highest efficiency,” mentioned Todd Mersch, Co-Founder & Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing at XCellAir. “Broadband Wi-Fi speeds supplied by web service suppliers imply nothing with out understanding what particular person necessities are, and clients are rising more and more baffled by the vary of packages obtainable to them. Home Wi-Fi Advisor gives an instance of how ISPs can information clients to select “greatest match” Wi-Fi companies and know-how packages to guarantee each single buyer’s Wi-Fi needs are met.”

Faced with the broadband risk introduced by cell service suppliers, the flexibility for ISPs and MSOs to cost purely for web pace is eroding shortly as the web bandwidth delivered is past what most companies require. Meanwhile, the final “fifty ft” inside the house is for probably the most half an unreliable and unmanaged Wi-Fi service.

Instead, managed and optimized “Wi-Fi-first” networks that replicate the standard of expertise clients are accustomed to with “fastened line” connections — clear HD voice calls, video with out buffering, gaming with out lag and so forth — will allow MSOs to keep buyer connectivity to high-bandwidth companies, offering them with a platform to monetize investments in Wi-Fi. The Home Wi-Fi Advisor device helps MSOs and ISPs set up a consultative relationship with the consumer, which is step one to upselling a spread of managed Wi-Fi companies (comparable to residence safety and automation), making certain the very best buyer engagement and retention.

For extra data or to strive XCellAir’s Whole Home Wi-Fi Advisor, please click on right here: http://xcellair.com/xcellair-wifi-calculator/.

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About XCellAir
XCellAir brings order to the potential chaos of utilizing unlicensed spectrum when deploying a dense radio community of Wi-Fi entry factors and mobile small cells. Based in San Diego, CA, XCellAir gives a cloud-based Quality of Experience (QoE) resolution that automates the administration and optimization of those networks. XCellAir allows wi-fi service suppliers to meet the challenges and seize the chance introduced by the insatiable thirst for information and ubiquitous connectivity.

For extra data and entry to the detailed enterprise case and efficiency report, see: http://xcellair.com/resources

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