Businesses increasingly process transactions, including sales, with computers instead of with old-fashioned pen, paper, and cash. These machine-to-machine transactions and executions include mobile point of sales, Oil rig monitoring, smart vending machines, smart safe, digital signage, fail-over, portable kiosk and automatic teller machines, including online sales and mobile wallets do improve business efficiency. Unfortunately, machine-to-machine…

This month, the networking products manufacturer TP-Link released the Talon AD7200. The new Talon model is the first router to operate on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)’s 802.11ad, or WiGig, standard.The new standard transfers wireless data packets at theoretical speeds of up to 7 Gbps, far beyond the capacities of today’s commercial…

With experts expect the next generation of mobile broadband to reach commercial markets in 2020, the specifics of the 5G standard are still mostly undefined. Stakeholders – experts, regulators, telecoms, and world governments ¬– agree that new networks should, in general, support large-scale data transmission with low-latency, high throughput connections processed at cloud-based hubs. The…

These days, customers expect the businesses they frequent to provide reliable, free Wi-Fi. Oh yes, complementary Wi-Fi is absolutely romanced and embraced by rural patrons. Good internet is good customer service, particularly if you’re entertaining customers on site for long periods of time. Outfitting your restaurant with a reliable Wi-Fi connectionenhances the customer experience and…

A good antenna configuration maximizes the gain of a cellular repeater system (whether a 3G signal booster antenna or another variation). This resource is a quick guide to the two types of antennas, the two types of antenna configuration, and to measuring the gain of antenna(s) during installation. Let’s start with the basics. Every antenna…