Why does your network last longer with Wifirst?

Like all technologies, WiFi evolves rapidly. Advances in data rates, frequencies and security protocols mean that each new generation outperforms its predecessor. As a result, today's most recent standard will certainly no longer be the benchmark in five years' time.

Yet professional equipment is designed to last much longer. High-quality network equipment can operate without problems for 20 to 30 years. So it's not its technical performance that makes it obsolete, but rather the evolution of standards and the compatibility of software licenses. With the proliferation of new generations of WiFi and the gradual phasing out of manufacturer support for older versions, companies find themselves forced to renew their infrastructure long before their hardware shows any real signs of weakness.

Choosing WiFi as a Service from Wifirst means adopting a sustainable, scalable approach. We explain why!

As a WaaS (WiFi as a Service) provider, we don't sell hardware, but offer a turnkey service with commitments to quality, availability and scalability over the long term. The fact that Wifirst is not paid "per installed terminal" protects our customers. Our sole interest lies in the quality of our service over the long term.

In this sense, we don't push our customers to buy new equipment, but let them benefit from innovations developed over time. Updates to bandwidth management algorithms, upgrades to the customer extranet, new after-sales service channels and support languages, improved versions of our network supervision and topology tools, and so on.

In other words, as long as the equipment doesn't have any functional limitations, we do everything we can to make it last. This approach enables us to offer high-performance, long-lasting multiservice WiFi that meets our customers' needs and budgets.

The key to our solution lies in the advice we give our customers (helping them to project themselves over 10 years) and in the ultra-precise design of the network.

Indeed, it's the quality of the initial WiFi deployment that will determine the success of a project and long-term customer satisfaction. This starts with a coverage audit.

The WiFi expert studies the propagation of WiFi waves, following a precise and comprehensive proprietary audit methodology. Once the network is deployed, we use technological innovation to make it last over time.

We have embedded artificial intelligence-based modules in all our supervision tools to anticipate and correct malfunctions. It's this model that really enables us to optimize your network's performance over the long term.

Thanks to its capacity for innovation, Wifirst develops solutions with a controlled carbon impact. By pooling network infrastructures, we enable our customers to save not only on deployment and maintenance costs, but also on energy consumption. Indeed, beyond the intrinsic benefits of a collective professional system, WiFi as a service has the merit of lightening the network's energy bill.

In the residential sector, for example, Wifirst regularly replaces competing systems that operate as consumer solutions: 1 individual box per home, no centralized system management. With the recent rise in the cost of electricity, we estimate that the extra energy cost of a solution with individual boxes is €1.60 (excl. VAT) per month per home, compared with a shared managed solution. Yet another reason to choose Wifirst!