Cloud Computing: Startup Mimosa Unveils First Gigabit Wireless Offering
August 11, 2014
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Jeffrey Burt.
Growing industry trends like mobile and cloud computing, video and bring-your-own-device are putting increasing pressure on Internet service providers to provide more bandwidth to handle the workloads. Many ISPs are responding by trying replicate what Google is doing via its Google Fiber initiative.
However, startup Mimosa Networks is looking to enable ISPs to embrace wireless network technology by bringing fiber-level capabilities to WiFi. The company has raised $38 million in funding since its founding in 2012, and this month is releasing the first products in what Chief Product Officer Jaime Fink told eWEEK will be a rapidly growing portfolio…
The goal is to make it worthwhile—both technologically and financially—for ISPs to used WiFi to deliver many of the services that now run over their more expensive broadband networks. Service providers increasingly are looking to WiFi for offloading some of the broadband traffic, but Mimosa’s technology will bring "data line fiber speeds over wireless networks," Fink said…
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