The Adaptive & Intent-Based Networking Expo is less than three months away. So now would be great time to register for this new TMC event, which was designed to help business transformation, and business application and networking leaders and team members, learn more about how artificial intelligence- and machine learning-based solutions can help them automate network operations, address the data deluge, scale, secure their networks and applications, and become more agile and innovative. Wi-Fi networks are one area in which AI allows for marked improvements. Bernard Herscovici, founder and CEO of KodaCloud, will explain how during The Adaptive & Intent-Based Networking Expo panel "How to Use AI to Take Wi-Fi to the Next Level". Prior to founding KodaCloud in 2014, Bernard was vice president of Wi-Fi at Ericsson (News - Alert), and founder and CEO of BelAir Networks, a company that was sold to Ericsson in 2012.

As the modern workforce becomes increasingly mobile, businesses of all sizes have substantially migrated from wired LANs to WLAN networks, questioning if the traditional wired connection will even be relevant in the years to come. Nevertheless, as more and more businesses are compelled to utilize Wi-Fi, it's important that we understand the issues associated with running a complex Wi-Fi network, and why it makes more sense for an enterprise to use a service provider with fully managed Wi-Fi solutions. Managed Wi-Fi is a new service, as in the past it was not economically possible for a service provider to manage multiple large scale Wi-Fi networks as the IT support staff required was simply too great. If the service was offered at all it was a reactive service whereby the customer would call the service provider complaining that they could not connect to the Wi-Fi, or that the performance was lacking in some way. The use of AI and ML makes these issues a thing of the past.

Artificial intelligence, or AI for short, has been described variously as a threat to humanity, a boon to economies, and many other things in between. All valuable technologies solve a pertinent problem. Until recently AI and its favorite children, machine learning and predictive analytics, have had little impact on the world outside of academia and science-fiction. Now, AI is poised to help transform the processes and cost base of commercial organizations, and to change the way people interact with one another and the world. For AI applied to Wi-Fi promises to solve a significant problem which is the cost of troubleshooting the many potential connection problems that can occur from many possible sources.