Research & Development Activities: 3inova Networks has developed market differentiating technology which addresses the impediments of Wi-Fi becoming the wireless technology of choice for in-building use.  The company is focused on developing technologies that allow Wi-Fi to: Deliver resilient performance for real-time mobile applications in the presence of large numbers of active users, Maximize system capacity and user experience by moving active users to available bandwidth, Replace Ethernet wiring to the desktop and support business critical applications like telephone, video and data services, Enabling employees' access to business applications any where, any time. The company's focus is to develop Wi-Fi technologies (mostly software components) and integrate them into vendor's products.  3inova Networks is a wireless sub-system solution provider working with different equipment manufacturers to integrate our technologies into their products.  3inova Networks technologies are built on top of the IEEE 802.11n standards with the focus of providing solutions to real problems that the standards have not addressed.   Solution Context  3inova Network's patent pending technologies address an important white space in Wi-Fi. There is currently a very rapid adoption and proliferation of Wi-Fi technology and Wi-Fi devices such as smartphones, tablet computers, laptop computers, portable data terminals and more. This trend is driven by many factors including: Mobility in the Enterprise with promises of the untethered desktop, Low cost alternative to cellular wireless in the Enterprise or near hotspots, Cellular off-load through UMA, Requirement to support personal Wi-Fi-enabled communication/computing devices in the Enterprise. Current Deployment Challenges Wi-Fi technology, as currently deployed, presents many challenges to achieving the above. Wireless devices need to support multiple applications including voice, data and increasingly video. End-user mobility leads to a very dynamic load for the access point which may in turn lead to focussed overload and insufficient bandwidth to deliver service to mobile users. Mobility combined with users having multiple wireless devices can lead to interference between these devices and loss of connectivity. Most Wi-Fi client devices do not support the functionality needed to address the above challenges.   3inova Networks Solutions 3inova Networks has developed patent pending technologies which address the above issue and which do not depend on any additional functionality in the wireless client device beyond basic Wi-Fi. Our Wi-Fi solutions address the issues by adding functionality only to the network, that is, the access point or the controller. Therefore, these solutions are designed to work with all Wi-Fi terminals including legacy, current and future. 3inova Networks solutions include: Virtual Priority for stations that do not support WMM Quality-of-Service needed for multiple applications such as voice, video and data. Load Distribution, which moves users to available bandwidth, is based on patent-pending indirect signalling methods and is used to address high-level focussed loads (i.e., front lobby, conference rooms) caused by mobility and other factors. Detection and mitigation of adjacent channel interference which is caused by closely located Wi-Fi devices. Wi-Fi Technology Development - Generation of 3 New Patents 3inova Networks received from NRC-IRAP Industrial Research and Development funding to develop and patent its market differentiating Wi-Fi technology.  3inova Networks successfully developed solutions to several whitespace issues described in our technologies page.  Prototypes were used to test the solutions and refine the designs.  This work successfully generated significant intellectual property for 3inova Networks and led to the filing of 3 Wi-Fi patent applications in Canada and the U.S.  3inova Networks is now taking steps to commercialize its new patented technology.   University Interaction 3inova Networks is working with Carleton University to establish university interaction programs supported by NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) funding.  This will add significant expertise from professors and students in the validation and further development of our market differentiating technologies.   Contact Us to Learn More To learn more about our patent pending technology and how it can benefit your product please contact us to arrange a detailed technology review.