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<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2834" title="WiFi Congress" src="http://www.interdigital.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/WiFi-Congress2.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="45" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center">Narayan Menon, InterDigital&rsquo;s Vice President, Research and Development, presented a new vision for industry-wide seamless integration strategies at the Wi-Fi Global Congress in Seoul, South Korea, on June 27.&nbsp; &nbsp;This conference focused on the development and monetization of ubiquitous, seamless Wi-Fi solutions, featuring topics such as Wi-Fi monetization and business models, Wi-Fi roaming and interoperability aspects, Wi-Fi offload, Hotspot 2.0 issues, small cells, policy etc. Participation in the conference was diverse, ranging from cellular operators to Wi-Fi hotspot providers, infrastructure vendors, device and connection manager vendors, etc. The event also had significant Asian presence &ndash; companies from Korea, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines etc.</p>
<p>Mr. Menon outlined the network architecture and standards-based solutions for prioritizing and seamlessly managing traffic across disparate access technologies, including Wi-Fi, 3G and LTE.&nbsp; The presentation, &ldquo;<a href="http://www.interdigital.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/InterDigital-at-Wi-Fi-Global-Congress.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Effective Wi-Fi and cellular network integration: Alleviate congestion and enable cost-effective service delivery</span></a>,&rdquo; demystifies emerging strategies such as application-based offload, policy-driven traffic segregation and bandwidth aggregation.</p>
<p>For those interested in the history of the technologies as well as current and future strategies for integration, InterDigital also published a new technical white paper on Wi-Fi/Cellular integration: &ldquo;<a href="http://www.interdigital.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Cellular_WiFi_Integration-White-Paper.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Cellular-Wi-Fi Integration: a comprehensive analysis of the technology and standardization roadmap.</span></a>&rdquo;</p>