"What Aruba does is allow you to put in an access point in a matter of moments," says Craig Mathias, a principal at Farpoint Group, an advisory firm that specializes in wireless and mobile technology.

In a few years, you could find yourself responsible for yet another type of wireless network. I’m talking about IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee networks, slated to enable wireless monitoring and control of ...

Consider a smart home display that uses Wi-Fi, Bluetooth mesh and local voice recognition. The embedded processor manages the wireless protocols, runs the voice model and powers the user interface.