- Japan's largest WiFi equipment manufacturer signs up for Ericsson's WiFi patents
- Ericsson holds industry strongest patent portfolio in GSM/HSPA/LTE
- Ericsson also holds essential WiFi patents
Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), the leading patent holder in mobile telecommunications, has signed an agreement to license its patented WiFi technology to Melco Holdings, parent company of Japanese digital equipment manufacturer Buffalo. Buffalo is the largest WiFi manufacturer in Japan with a market share of about 60%.
Ericsson holds the industry's strongest patent portfolio covering technologies like GSM, GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, HSPA and LTE.
Ericsson's early research on GPRS and HIPERLAN/2 has been the basis of packet technology for later mobile standards such as HSPA, and more recently the latest WiFi standard, IEEE 802.11n. As a result, Ericsson holds essential patents that are key to developing products in a wide range of mobile technologies, including WiFi.
More and more people use heavy data applications like HD video and gaming wirelessly at home, on their laptops and set top boxes. Since many homes are connected to fiber optic networks, the bottleneck of data streaming is now in the wireless link, between the fiber and the devices like TV and laptops. The latest high capacity WiFi standard, IEEE 802.11n, provides a solution to this problem by offering significantly greater download speed. It enables several users to simultaneously access heavy data applications with high quality over the same wireless link.
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