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Let’s talk about Fiber - Vaults

Understanding Vault Assemblies What's Hiding Underground? The Mystery of Telecommunication Vaults Revealed Ever wonder how th ...

WAV Expands Product Offerings with Ubiquiti

Aurora, IL — 1/14/2025 — WAV announces distribution agreement with Ubiquiti, a global leader in high-performance enterprise n ...

WAV Announces Acquisition of ISP Supplies to Expand Distribution Footprint

AURORA, Ill., November 11, 2024-- WAV, a full-service distributor of fiber, fixed wireless, and Wi-Fi equipment, today announ ...

WAV welcomes Altowav as a new manufacturer partner

WAV is proud to annouce a distribution agreement with AltoWav.

Let’s talk about Fiber - Innerduct

Understanding Innerduct What is Innerduct? Innerduct, sometimes referred to as duct, offers several advantages in underground ...

One WAV: Last Mile Gear Integration Into WAV, LLC

We are very excited to announce that on January 1st, 2023, we will complete the full integration of Last Mile Gear, a WAV com ...

Technology Distributor WAV and Affiliate Companies Announce Distribution Agreement With Wavenet to Offer Bulk Fiber to North America

AURORA, Il., November 15, 2022 - WAV and MBSI WAV, full-service distributors of LTE, wireless broadband, networking, and Wi-F ...

Technology Distributor WAV and Its Affiliates Announce Distribution Agreement with Tarana

Aurora, IL and Milpitas, CA — October 26, 2022 — WAV, MBSI WAV, and Last Mile Gear, full-service distributors of LTE, wirele ...

Advance the Mission at WISPAPALOOZA

Advance the mission to bridge the digital divide at WISPAPALOOZA! Together, we can connect the unconnected by helping you fin ...

Technology Distributor WAV Announces Distribution Agreement With MikroTik

AURORA, IL., Aug. 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — WAV LLC is now a MikroTik authorized distributor. The partnership provides its ...

WAV Celebrates 32 Years In Business

Founded in 1990, WAV began as POS information systems, a two-man point of sale reseller and integrator. In 1999, with the rat ...

The History Of “Wireless Outfitters”

Founded in 1990, WAV began as POS information systems, a two-man point of sale reseller and integrator. In 1999, with the rat ...

Technology Distributors WAV, MBSI WAV & Last Mile Gear Announce Distribution Agreements With Positron Access Solutions

AURORA, ILLINOIS – March 14, 2022 – WAV, MBSI WAV, and Last Mile Gear, full-service distributors of LTE, wireless broadband, ...

Technology Distributor WAV to Supply New Nomadix Networks and Full Product Portfolio

Partnership Equips WAV’s MDU and Hospitality Network with End-to-End Wi-Fi 6 Solutions LOS ANGELES, Calif. – March 8, 2022 — ...

WISPAMERICA: Better Together

Looking to build a network, launch new products, or learn about the latest innovations in broadband, fiber, and LTE? Visit bo ...

WAV’s Partnership With CommScope RUCKUS Gives Partners Huge Benefits

Available to WAV’s own CommScope’s Ruckus partners and all other partners of other CommScope Ruckus distributers; the Ruckus ...

Teltonika Networks Enters Distribution Agreement with WAV

WAV LLC., the wireless & broadband distributor with the largest and most consistent inventory in the industry, and Teltonika ...

The Digital Divide: How Connectivity Creates Economic & Social Opportunities

by Zach Hubeck, V.P. of Sales & Marketing for WAV LLC. The pandemic has moved the remote learning needle forward, whether so ...

Strength in Numbers at WISPAPALOOZA

WISPAPALOOZA is back! Whether you are looking to build a network, launch new products, or learn about the latest innovations ...

Mountain Connect: Let’s Talk Digital Divide

In-person events are back! We are looking forward to attending Mountain Connect where we will continue the conversation on br ...

ICT Adds WAV as a Value-added Distributor in the US

Logistics and integration technology company will now provide DC and AC converter power solutions as a complete network offer ...

Bridging the Digital Divide for Students & Communities During COVID-19

Since COVID-19’s classification as a global pandemic, United States citizens and residents are forced to adapt to a new way o ...

WAV and Last Mile Gear, a WAV company are here to support your critical infrastructure needs in these unprecedented times

On Friday, March 20, 2020, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker joined governors in California and New York, enacting a “stay at hom ...

Top 3 Takeaways from WAV, MBSI WAV and Last Mile Gear’s 2020 Sales Kickoff

On an annual basis, WAV invites our manufacturers, joint business partner (MBSI WAV) and wholly owned subsidiary (Last Mile G ...

Surpass Expectations with Solutions from SIAE

SIAE Microelettronica is internationally renowned as a leading provider of the most innovative and best performing microwave ...

SIAE MICROELETTRONICA announces DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT WITH WAV

WAV now providing SIAE Microelettronica’s complete portfolio of North American Microwave and Millimeter Wave Radio Systems Fe ...

Mimosa Link Up 2019

For a limited time, WAV & Mimosa are offering two FREE CPE radios – either two (2) C5x radios or two (2) C5c radios with qual ...

Baicells Holiday Promo, Now Extended Till Year-End!

Missed out on your opportunity to save up to 33% on select indoor and outdoor CPEs during Black Friday & Cyber Monday? Good n ...

Baicells Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale

Save Up to 33% on Select Indoor and Outdoor CPEs! From November 27th to December 2nd Baicells LTE CPEs are available at disco ...

LAST MILE GEAR BECOMES A WAV COMPANY

WAV today announced it has completed an agreement to make Last Mile Gear a WAV company. Last Mile Gear is a Longview, WA base ...

LAST MILE GEAR BECOMES A WAV COMPANY FAQ’s

LAST MILE GEAR BECOMES A WAV COMPANY Logistics and integration technology companies join to serve WISP, ISP, Telco, MSP and m ...

BridgeWave & WAV join forces to offer best-of-breed microwave and millimeter wave systems

WAV Inc., the wireless & broadband distributor with the largest and most consistent inventory in the industry, and BridgeWave ...

WAV & MBSI WAV International Partner Conference 2019

Join WAV & MBSIWAV as we go INTERNATIONAL at this year’s Partner Conference located in beautiful downtown Chicago, IL! Throu ...

Everest Networks teams up with WAV to offer industry leading performance in High-Density Wi-Fi

Strategic partnership aims to expand the opportunity to satisfy customers growing demand for High Density Wi-Fi, while expand ...

WAV Inc. and RaGaPa Announce Distribution Agreement

WAV Inc., the premier value-added distributor of wireless, networking and LTE technology, and RaGaPa, creators of the Captive ...

The NEW cnPilot™ e430H Microcell Wall Plate Access Point

The cnPilot e430H is a wall plate access point featuring a discreet and sleek design. As a microcell wireless access point, t ...

Mimosa Year-End Rebates with WAV

Mimosa Year-End Rebates with WAV From now until December 31st, buy Mimosa from WAV and be eligible for a rebate of up to 2% b ...

Alexa, Open Aerohive HiveManager

By Aerohive Networks. As mentioned a few weeks ago, HiveManager Shortcuts is a new way to manage and monitor your enterprise ...

Is Wi-Fi Learning How to Fix Itself?

By Kevin Francis, Ruckus Networks. It is hard to argue that Wi-Fi has not had a profound impact on human behavior. As we cons ...

WAV Inc. and WhyReboot Announce Distribution Agreement

WAV Inc., the premier value-added distributor of wireless network technology, and WhyReboot, creators of Paramount-the world’ ...

WAV Inc. and WhyReboot Announce Distribution Agreement

**EXCITING NEWS!!!! Our Fortnite Black Friday Promo has now been extended to Dec 20th **From November 19th to December 31st, ...

WAV Inc. and Trylon Announce Distribution Agreement

WAV Inc., the premier value-added distributor of wireless network technology, and Trylon have recently entered into a distrib ...

Wi-Fi 6 Fundamentals: Basic Service Set Coloring (BSS Coloring)

By Dennis Huang, Ruckus Networks. Introduction According to IDC, 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) deployment is projected to ramp significa ...

Mimosa: GAME ON 2018

Mimosa: GAME ON 2018 Fall Promo From now until December 31st, buy any qualifying Mimosa products from WAV and be eligible to ...

What are OFDMA Resource Units in 802.11ax?

By David Coleman, Aerohive Networks. Orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) is a multi-user version of OFDM di ...

Three ways to use network access policies beyond IT security

By Vernon Shure, Ruckus Networks. If you have been following Ruckus Networks for a while, you have probably heard us frequent ...

WAV Inc. Opens New 26,000 sq. ft. Warehouse in West Chicago

In response to growing demands for additional products, WAV Inc. is excited to announce that their new 26,000 sq. ft. warehou ...

Mimosa 2018 Link Up Promo

Curious about Mimosa but unsure where to start? Now is the perfect opportunity to get to know Mimosa and our award winning-pr ...

2018 WAV Partner Conference Highlights

Interested in reliving the WAV 2018 Partner Conference? Feel free to peruse through this assortment of photos/videos collecte ...

What is a Room Area Network (RAN)?

By Nathaniel Moore, Aerohive Networks. For many years, Multi-Dwelling Unit (MDU) environments have struggled to effectively m ...

Skating to Where The Puck Will Be

By Mike Kouri, Aerohive Networks. The apocryphal quote from Wayne Gretsky that formed the title illustrates his winning strat ...

How Do 20 MHz-Only Clients Operate In 802.11ax?

By David Coleman, Aerohive Networks. Much of the 802.11ax draft amendment has been written with Internet of Things (IoT) dev ...

Ruckus Unleashed: Wi-Fi That Works For Small Business

By Ruckus Networks. With few (if any!) IT staff, your small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) need a more-than-simple way to ...

Bridging the Digital Divide with Connected School Buses

By Ruckus Networks. It may be 2018, but millions of low-income American households with school-age children still don’t hav ...

Ruckus Launches Wi-Fi Access Points for Smart Cities, Stadiums and Public Transportation

By Ruckus Networks. Ruckus Networks has launched two new 802.11ac Wave 2 access points (APs). The E510 and M510 APs are desi ...

WAV’s 2018 Partner Conference

Join WAV on a journey to OPTIMIZE THE FUTURE at our 6th Annual Partner Conference located in beautiful downtown Chicago, IL. ...

SD-WAN: Centralized Orchestration

By Nathaniel Moore, Aerohive Networks. Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) is an innovative new approach to the de ...

Hospitality IoT Made Easy: Give Your Guests a Home-like Automation Experience

By Scott Heinlein, Ruckus Networks. Consumers’ homes are rapidly transforming with the use of smart IoT automation. From digi ...

LTE: Learning What You Don’t Know

By Nick Dewar, Telrad Networks. LTE is just not as easy as Wi-Fi, although the benefits far outweigh the additional design co ...

Security Concerns for K-12 Networks

By Alexandra Gates, Aerohive Networks. Network security is inextricably linked with BYOD, but it is also an issue of its own ...

WAV, Inc. Enjoys Continued Growth- Appoints New Team Members

WAV, Inc., a value-added distributor of LTE, wireless broadband, Wi-Fi and networking equipment, appoints new team members to ...

cnPilot E500, E501S, E502S : use-cases for each

cnPilot E500, E501S, E502S : use-cases for each The cnPilot E500, E501S and E502S are three Outdoor Wi-Fi Enterprise that ...

How Does Aerohive’s VLAN Probe Work?

Want to understand what happens once the administrator executes VLAN probe through HiveManager? Check out this great VLOG ...

Making a Ruckus with ARRIS

If you haven’t heard the news already – the ARRIS acquisition was finalized in the beginning of December. Ruckus Networks, ...

2017 Review & 2018 Wireless Broadband Predictions and Trends

Great post by Cambium Networks – A Look Ahead into 2018. In a fast-moving industry, it is vitally important to anticipat ...

Mobile User Engagement Apps

Extreme Networks knows about keeping customers and users engaged to keep them coming back for more. They have noticed a tr ...

Hiring People Better Than Yourself

We really like Cambium Network’s perspective on hiring. It is also something we try to practice at WAV. Hiring People Be ...

Random Hacks of Kindness: Extreme Helps Connect Innovative Minds with Charitable Organizations

WAV lives by our C.A.R.E.S. (Customer. Accountability. Respect. Excellence. Service.) Motto. Our people embody it, our w ...

Introducing Extreme Connect – A Letter from Norman Rice

Mark your calendars for Extreme Networks’ first-ever global customer-focused user conference — Extreme Connect! Join us i ...

Aerohive Hits the Hotspot for MSPs with New Guest Management Services at Scale

Aerohive Networks, continuing on as a Cloud Networking Leader, announced cloud-managed hotspot services for public and gu ...

Cambium Networks Breaks Technology Barriers with PMP 450m & cnMedusa

Technology barriers are challenges that beg to be broken. These challenges attract the best engineers and business minds ...

Our Partner Conference MSP Roundtable Review

At our Partner Conference this year, we had a roundtable discussion about MSPs. Specifically migrating from a traditional res ...

Our Partner Conference CBRS Roundtable Review

At our Partner Conference this year, we had a roundtable discussion about CBRS. Here we have a review about what we went over ...

Our Partner Conference Marketing Roundtable Review

At our Partner Conference this year, we had a roundtable discussion about marketing. Here we are going to cover most of what ...

Ruckus Wireless has released their new Unleashed Mobile App!

Small to medium sized businesses, rejoice! Not only does Ruckus Wireless provide solutions scalable to your business, they j ...

Open Letter to Brocade Partners and Customers on Extreme Network’s Acquisition

Within the last year, Brocade has undergone different changes through a variety of acquisitions. This letter is from Norman R ...

Information Security and Defense in Depth

The spread of available connectivity has outpaced the ability to keep information secure. Working in from the Wi-Fi access la ...

Net Neutrality Debate Has Reached a Fevered Pitch

The ripple effects of the Net Neutrality and Open Internet proceedings are being felt by consumers, the tech industry, as wel ...

Mimosa’s New 5G Fixed Wireless Solutions

“As an industry, we’ve done an incredible job utilizing the 5GHz band to its fullest potential. Mimosa is particularly proud ...

Scalable WLAN Network Controllers for Up to 30,000 Wi-Fi Access Points

Whether managed on premises or by distributed services, networks serve as the information pipeline that ensures the day-to-da ...

What Happens Where the Fiber Ends

In the world of broadband, there is little doubt that the advent of fiber will bring faster, more reliable connections than t ...

The C5c connectorized client radio is now available at WAV Inc.!

The C5c rounds out our suite of client devices, and in combination with our comprehensive backhaul and access offerings, deli ...

WISP & Outages: The Hidden Cost of Low Cost Networks

Customer satisfaction is critical to any WISP. This is why WISPs & outages are like oil & water. With increased expectations ...

Thinking Designing a Campus Network: Vendor Migration

University and college campus networks can be some of the most challenging environments to design and maintain, with so ...

cnReach IIoT Wireless Communications: Powering the Industrial Internet of Things

Cambium Networks understands the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) requires fast, secure connectivity across distances tha ...

Wi-Fi and Wired Connectivity for Every Room

How do you address complaints about Wi-Fi from users who are bringing more and more devices into your hotel rooms, meeting ro ...

Network Security: How Is Your Agency Protecting Data at the Edge?

It’s no surprise that the Internet of Things (IoT) is expanding. IHS predicts that the number of IoT-connected devices will g ...

High Speed Secure Data Transfer for Research and Higher Education

Campus IT networks are the lifeblood of many researchers, educators and students. They provide a platform for researchers and ...

In the Aftermath of a Tornado, Ruckus Wireless and Brocade Come to the Rescue

On March 6, a tornado with peak winds of 150 miles per hour ripped through Seymour, Iowa, a town of approximately 700 r ...

Top 3 Challenges For IT in Education [Infographic]

We’re asking “Is your network ready?” by addressing these Top 3 Challenges for IT in Education. Ready to start elevating ...

Doing More with Less: The Hotel Technology Challenge

During many years of supporting the hotel industry, several of them while deploying Ruckus, we have always been amazed at th ...

Five Signs it’s Time for a Network Upgrade

How old is the equipment running your campus network? Older than 5 year? Do you experience recurrent network outages? Do you ...

Ideas for Network Design: Remove the Research Data Bottleneck on the Higher Ed Campus

Higher-Education Networks have reached a tipping point where traditional enterprise network design with Gigabit uplinks are s ...

Not all Switch Stacking is Created Equal

With bring your own device (BYOD) strategies maturing, organizations worldwide are frantically looking to adopt BYOD programs ...

Bringing Your Campus Network into the Modern Era

For many years, campus networks have seen little innovation beyond incremental link speed enhancements. Years of piecemeal up ...

What The Evolution of Ruckus APs and Cloud Means For the Next Generation of Enterprises

When it comes to cloud managed WLAN, it’s intriguing how the various vendors have architected their solutions. Years ago, in ...

Connected Classrooms: The Future of Education Technology

As a parent to two kids in elementary school, I’m continually amazed at how quickly teachers and students are using education ...

The New Network Edge

In 2010, Goldman Sachs published an early, but solid, piece of analysis on how cloud computing was forcing networks into an e ...

Ruckus Unleashed: Best 2017 Updates

Here at WAV, 2017 is already off to a great start. Why is the team so excited you might ask? The release of the new Ruckus Un ...

Want To Power Smart Government? Start With Your Wireless Network

IHS reports that the Internet of Things (IoT) will double from around 15 billion devices in 2015 to more than 30 billion devi ...

A Brocade Value-Added Distributor’s Perspective: Looking to the Future at the Network Edge

At WAV (a Brocade Value-Added Distributor), our product line and our vision are neatly aligned with Brocade’s vision for the ...