Today, Wi-Fi is the lowest-cost, highest-performance internet connection available, and its impact only continues to expand. It is generally accepted that by 2020, more than 25 billion devices will be running on Wi-Fi networks.
However, this growing number of devices still runs on “islands of Wi-Fi,” as users move between hot spots operated from different restaurants, stores, hotels, coffee shops and other public locations. To access the network, each user enters a new set of credentials. In each location, they must be approved, pay for the service, or be denied. And, as the number of Wi-Fi networks grows, so do the different types of authentication requirements.
