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Cambium Networks certified in Express Wi-Fi by Facebook program
In networking news, Cambium gets certified in Facebook's Express Wi-Fi program, Nyansa frees up network data worldwide and SevOne will support VMware NSX SD-WAN.
Wi-Fi vendor Cambium Networks, based in Rolling Meadows, Ill., has been certified in a Facebook Wi-Fi program that looks to expand internet connectivity to underserved locations around the world. Express Wi-Fi by Facebook works with carriers, internet service providers and local entrepreneurs to provide affordable internet access in public yet remote places.
Currently, Express Wi-Fi by Facebook is live in India, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania and Indonesia. The program allows access point (AP) manufacturers like Cambium to build Wi-Fi hardware that's compatible with Express Wi-Fi by Facebook.
Cambium, a global provider of wireless network services, is one of the first Wi-Fi vendors to join Facebook's Express Wi-Fi certified ecosystem, Cambium said in a statement this week. Cambium works with service providers and enterprise network operators to build edge connectivity. It specializes in providing end-to-end wireless fabric of cloud-managed platforms.
In the Facebook partnership, Cambium is enabling network deployment with its Frictionless Wi-Fi cnPilot enterprise-access service, Cambium president and CEO Atul Bhatnagar said in a statement. The cnPilot Wi-Fi products feature indoor and outdoor APs that can be installed in new or existing wireless local area networks.
The Express Wi-Fi network requires Wi-Fi vendors to support specific communications protocols to enable Facebook internet service provider partners to deploy Express Wi-Fi networks, according to Chetan Hebbalae, senior director of product management at Cambium. Facebook approves only Wi-Fi vendors that have passed its interoperability qualifications, he added.
As the goal of the Express Wi-Fi by Facebook program is to provide internet access to remote places, Bhatnagar noted approximately 3.8 billion people are unconnected around the world.
Nyansa provides free network insights
Network analytics vendor Nyansa Inc., based in Palo Alto, Calif., is making worldwide network data freely available. The data has been collected by Nyansa's Voyance software-as-a-service platform that monitors hundreds of business networks with millions of end-user client devices.
The free and public dashboard, called Voyance Live, is the first and only repository of network analytics, Nyansa said in a statement. The service was developed to help network professionals gain insight into the behavior of business networks that are not their own.
Voyance Live updates continually and provides insights into various network issues, service performance and client incidents. The aggregated network insights include the top Wi-Fi APs, best and worst performing applications, a breakdown of enterprise client devices in use by operating system, as well as the top issues affecting network performance.
Voyance Live does not share customer data but gleans anonymous insights and analytics from enterprise networks. The service can provide organizations with quantifiable answers to network issues by using real network data.
Voyance Live uses wired and wireless network data from more than 12 million client devices and hundreds of thousands of Wi-Fi APs under observation within Voyance, Nyansa's commercial network analytics service. By using cloud sourcing, Voyance Live collects and processes petabytes of network data, analyzing billions of client events and detecting tens of thousands of incidents.
SevOne to add support for VMware NSX SD-WAN
SevOne, a Boston-based network and infrastructure management services provider, said its SevOne SD-WAN Monitoring Solution will support VMware NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud. SevOne's SD-WAN monitoring tool, released earlier this year, is designed to help managed service providers (MSPs) that offer network services over multi-tenant, multivendor networks.
The SevOne SD-WAN Monitoring Solution supports WAN infrastructures from Cisco, Huawei, Juniper, Nokia and others. It also supports Cisco SD-WAN. VMware NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud provides bandwidth expansion, as well as access to data and enterprise and cloud applications.
MSPs need to view and access network performance data from the complex services running across their MPLS-based services, as well as hybrid WAN services, SevOne said in a statement.
The latest SevOne SD-WAN service, scheduled for release later this year, will provide real-time and historical insight into enterprise and service provider networks with customizable dashboards for network operations and engineering, product owners and business executives. MSPs can use SevOne's SD-WAN monitoring tool for visibility across their entire service delivery path, including enterprise Wi-Fi from campus to branch and software-defined data centers.
