Title: Peaceful coexistence of wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi 6, LTE, BLE, ZigBee and others

Biography:

Jan started his professional career at Bell Labs in the Netherlands in the late 1990s and worked within Optical Networking. After a couple of years, Jan joined the initial WLAN development organization. He joined LANCOM Systems in 2006, where he held various senior positions in sales. Since 2014, he has been fully focusing on Business Development. In 2017, he became temporary responsible for the product lines WLAN and Switches, returning early 2019 as Vice President Business Development. Jan holds an international MBA (Purdue University) as well as a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Management Science (Eindhoven University of Technology).

Abstract

Wi-Fi (WLAN) has become a 2 Trillion USD market and is on its way to become 3 trillion soon¹. The economic value of Wi-Fi has become undeniable, up to a level the one of the key needs of life has become Wi-Fi accessibility in conjunction with battery life.

Wi-Fi also has become the mean of connectivity, far above mobile connectivity². The off-loading isn’t the Wi-Fi for the cellular networks, but the cellular has become the alternative, when there is no Wi-Fi available.

Through time, it seems that Wi-Fi and Cellular is doing a rat-race on who will become the leading factor in the end. The current 5G presented applications are somehow the same being presented when LTE was introduced, even when UMTS was announced^3,4. Still, the constant increase in applications needing internet access, keeps on changing the demand of each the technologies.

Instead of working against each other, we should start understand the end-user needs and related applications; each solution and ideal technology will deliver the capabilities. This won’t be only 5G, Wi-Fi or anything else.