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ROADMAP OF ACTIVITIES 2021
     PROGRAMS & PROJECTS OVERVIEW

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ROADMAP OF ACTIVITIES 2021 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS OVERVIEW - Wireless Broadband Alliance
THE VISION OF THE WIRELESS BROADBAND ALLIANCE

                                             WBA’s vision is to lead the development of
         “Seamless and interoperable services experience on Wi-Fi within the global wireless ecosystem”

                                                                                WORKGROUPS

                                                                                 1          5G Work Group                         Project Team-1

 •   Enable collaboration among service                                          2          NextGen Work Group                    Project Team-2
     providers, technology companies                                             3          IoT Work Group                        Project Team-3
     and the organizations in the industry
                                                                                 4          Testing Work Group
     who share the vision                                                                                                         Project Team-3
                                                                                 5          Roaming Work Group
 •   Undertake programs and activities
                                                                                 6          Policy Work Group
     to address business and technical
                                                                                                                                  Project Team-n
     issues and opportunities for the                                            7          Market Work Group
     member companies
                                                                                Strategic
                                                                                   CTO Group –                                      Connected City
                                                                                                        OpenRoaming™
                                                                                 Innovation Forum                                   Advisory Board

       Established           100+ MEMBERSHIP         PROJECTS &   2 ANNUAL   PROMOTION AND                   THOUGHT LEADERSHIP &
       in 2003                 COMMUNITY             PROGRAMS     EVENTS     GO-TO-MARKET                       MARKET RESEARCH

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OUR MEMBERS

BOARD MEMBERS   MEMBERS

                                                 Not Exhaustive   Last updated – Jan 2021

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WBA ROADMAP 2021

      WBA WORK GROUPS & PROJECTS

                        5G                                                   IoT                              NextGen                        Roaming              Testing & Interoperability
                     Work Group                                           Work Group                         Work Group                     Work Group                   Work Group

          5G & Wi-Fi Convergence in                                     Wi-Fi 6/6E                             Wi-Fi 6E               Roaming Evolution                    Captive Portal
            Private 5G Networks                                     for Industrial IoT                           Trials                     PKI RadSec                 Onboarding Evolution

                                                                                                               In-Home                                                  Wi-Fi IMSI Privacy
                                                                          Rural Wi-Fi                                                In-Flight Connectivity
                                                                                                         Multi-AP Solutions                                                Protection

                                                                            AR & VR                          Wi-Fi Sensing              Profiles & RCOIs                   Wi-Fi Devices
                                                                          Requirements                 Deployment Guidelines             Prioritization                    Identification

                                                                                                      Trackside Connectivity             OpenRoaming
                                                                                                           & Spectrum                  for Private LTE/5G

                     WBA OpenRoamingTM                                         Policy & Regulatory Affairs                      Market                          WBA Certification
                         Task Group                                                   Work Group                               Work Group                         Task Group

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5G WORK GROUP

Chair: Nigel Bird - Orange

Co-Chair: Mark Grayson - Cisco

Co-Chair: Florin Baboescu - Broadcom

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5G & WI-FI CONVERGENCE IN PRIVATE 5G NETWORKS

   BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES                    BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS                               LEADING PARTICIPANTS      RELEVANT PROJECTS

  •   Evaluate potential optimization of 5G and        •    Analyze business opportunities & challenges for Wi-Fi
      Wi-Fi convergence architecture with                   and 5G convergence in private 5G networks                                              Understand more about
      collocated deployments of 5G access and                                                                                                      5G & Wi-Fi RAN Convergence
                                                       •    Provide deployment guidelines for converged Wi-Fi and
      Wi-Fi access networks
                                                            5G deployments in private 5G networks
  •   Examine management/control for 5G and
                                                       •    Collaborate and liaise with industry standards bodies                                  RAN Convergence
      Wi-Fi access networks and devices from a
                                                            (3GPP, IEEE, Wi-Fi Alliance, NGMN, GSMA, ETSI)                                         2020 Whitepaper
      single management entity for 1)
      operational benefits and 2) simplify device      •    Explore potential trials and compliance for Wi-Fi and
      management                                            5G convergence in private 5G networks
                                                                                                                                                   WBA & NGMN
  •   Identify roaming use cases between 5G                                                                                                        RAN Convergence 2019
      and Wi-Fi within and across private 5G
      networks
                                                       EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
                                                                                                                                                   Unlicensed Integration
  •   Analyze how the enterprise Wi-Fi
                                                                                                                                                   with 5G Networks
      segmentation and 5G slicing come
                                                        •   Address co-existence of MEC (Multi-Access Edge
      together in private network deployments
                                                            Computing) traffic management and the traffic
  •   Within a 5G context, analyze how                      management (ATSSS) within the 5G Core
      managed QoS can be provided over Wi-Fi
                                                        •   Evaluate if any enhancements are needed to ETSI MEC
      for Time Sensitive Networking
                                                            WLAN APIs or ETSI MEC Location APIs to support Wi-Fi
      applications
                                                            access in private 5G networks
                                                        •   Address how IEEE 802.1 TSN standards (such as 802.1AS,
                                                            802.1Qbv) can be supported over the converged
                                                        •   Industry guidelines and requirements for optimal
                                                            deployments

        2021     Project Kick off                                                       Work Output

                   Q1                          Q2                        Q3                         Q4
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IOT WORK GROUP

Chair: Sandeep Agrawal - C-DOT

Co-Chair: Wael Guibene - Charter Communications

Co-Chair: Bahar Sadeghi - Intel

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WI-FI 6 / 6E FOR INDUSTRIAL IOT

   BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES                    BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS                               LEADING PARTICIPANTS      RELEVANT PROJECTS

   •   The global industrial IoT (IIoT) market is      •    Identify Wi-Fi 6/6E enterprise use cases which require
       expected to exceed USD 750B by 2020,                 high determinism and low latency                                                       Understand more about
       growing at a CAGR of ~23% from 2017 to                                                                                                      Wi-Fi 6 for Industrial IoT
       2023. As part of the industrial IoT (IIoT)      •    Leverage Wi-Fi 6/6E new features which result in
       including Industry 4.0 and Connected                 improved performance and make Wi-Fi 6/6E specifically
       Factory (CF) transformation, wireless                applicable to IIoT networks and applications
       connectivity is estimated to become an          •    Wi-Fi 6E introduces operation in greenfield 6 GHz band                                 Wi-Fi 6 Trials Report
       integral ingredient growing at the fastest           that can be used to meet the majority of the stringent
       rate with a CAGR of over 25%                         low latency requirements of IIoT usage
   •   Wi-Fi is the most prevalent wireless                                                                                                        Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN
       technology in industrial environments                                                                                                       Trials Report
       providing access to mobile employees and
       contractors as well as access to mobile
                                                       EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
       automation and control devices and
       applications                                                                                                                                Connected Vehicle
                                                        •   Industry guidelines for Wi-Fi 6 & Wi-Fi 6E deployment in
   •   However, there are wide range of                     industrial environments, IIoT and enterprise scenarios
       applications with latency and reliability                                                                                                Project Leaders
       requirements unmet with existing wireless        •   Demonstrate high quality Wi-Fi use for high
       capabilities; hence, the footprint of                determinism enterprise applications and showcasing
                                                                                                                                                Leader: Bahar Sadeghi
       wireless solutions in manufacturing for              Wi-Fi 6/6E features pertaining to IIoT
                                                                                                                                                Intel
       automation applications has been limited         •   Develop and execute trials based on the identified key
       due to the challenge of meeting the                  scenarios; Aggregate and analyze the trial to provide                               Co-Leader: Malcom Smith
       stringent latency and reliability                    recommendations for IIoT and enterprise application                                 Cisco
       requirements

        2021      Project Kick off                    Whitepaper                                 Trial Report

                    Q1                          Q2                       Q3                         Q4
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RURAL WI-FI

   BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES                     BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS                               LEADING PARTICIPANTS      RELEVANT PROJECTS

  •   There are more than 3 billion people              •   There is a strong business case for the Wi-Fi industry to
      around the world who live in rural areas              connect the unconnected via Wi-Fi technology                                            Understand more about
      and remain digitally unconnected                                                                                                              Rural Wi-Fi
                                                        •   Enable affordable internet access to bridge the digital
  •   Wi-Fi is considered as the most suitable              divide in communities and cities around the world and
      technology to provide digital connectivity            by contributing significant economic value to the
      in rural areas.                                       global economy                                                                          Wi-Fi 6 Trials Report
  •   However, there are many factors specific
      to rural areas which must be considered
      when defining Rural Wi-Fi architecture and                                                                                                    Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN
      deployments if Wi-Fi is to be used as a                                                                                                       Trials Report
      robust, efficient, and affordable access
      technology in these areas
                                                        EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
  •   With high CAPEX and OPEX of deploying                                                                                                         Connected Vehicle
      cellular network in rural areas, operators
      are exploring the most efficient ways to          •   Provide industry guidelines and best practices for Wi-Fi
      create sustainable business models by                 deployment scenario in rural area
      providing Wireless services with positive         •   Identify challenges and gaps in existing Wi-Fi
      ROI                                                   deployment strategy, enterprise architecture and
                                                            guidelines
                                                        •   Recommendations on sustainable business model

         2021                                                                     Project Kick off

                     Q1                            Q2                      Q3                          Q4

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AUGMENTED & VIRTUAL REALITY REQUIREMENTS

   BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES                    BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS                               LEADING PARTICIPANTS      RELEVANT PROJECTS

   •   Virtual and Augmented Reality is one of          •   Address and identify the significant intersection
       the fastest growing technology segments              between wireless technologies and AR/VR devices,                                       Understand more about
       today and is projected to exceed a market            ranging from simple connectivity to enable services on                                 AR & VR - Requirements
       size of $100B by 2025. Numerous major                mobile devices, to high throughput and low latency
       OEMs have entered the AR/VR market,                  that supports human interface with light head-
       including Amazon , Microsoft , Samsung ,             mounted devices like AR glasses
       Apple , Facebook , and Google . In                                                                                                          Wi-Fi 6 Trials Report
                                                        •   WBA will bring together operators, OEMs and silicon
       addition, numerous major operators have
                                                            providers developing products AR/VR
       AR/VR campaigns and assets, including DT
       , AT&T, BT and Comcast                           •   Identify the opportunity to demonstrate key new AR/VR
                                                            features through WBA’s unique Wi-Fi trials program                                     Wi-Fi 6E Trials
   •   The future of augmented reality will
                                                            across verticals
       change our lives in more ways than you
       can imagine                                     EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
   •   Driven by advances in computer vision, AI                                                                                                   Wi-Fi 6 for Industrial IoT
       and cloud computing, tomorrow’s                  •   Evaluate how wireless technologies can enable unique
       augmented reality (AR) will transform                and high-value AR/VR applications
       everything from travel to real estate,
       healthcare to education                          •   Examine the viability of enabling new wireless AR/VR
                                                            technologies
   •   The new generations of Wi-Fi may benefit
       from an early identification and definition      •   Provide trial use cases such as multi-party trials and
       of the optimal network requirements /                demos showing these technologies
       architecture for delivering AR/VR over Wi-
                                                        •   Provide industry guideline for the foundational
       Fi 6E and/or Wi-Fi 7 & 5G on a converged
                                                            network requirements that need to be addressed to
       context
                                                            support massive AR/VR use cases across verticals

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NEXTGEN WORK GROUP

Chair: Kishore Raja - Boingo Wireless

Co-Chair: Necati Canpolat – Intel

Co-Chair: Steve Dyett - BT

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WI-FI 6E TRIALS

   BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES                    BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS                               LEADING PARTICIPANTS      RELEVANT PROJECTS

  •   In 2020, WBA announced the conclusion of         •   Wi-Fi 6 technology would remove pain points currently
      first Wi-Fi 6 trial deployments across diverse       caused by overcrowding on many Wi-Fi networks                                           Understand more about
      markets with wider channels up, enabling         •   Wi-Fi 6 /6E provides more capacity than all the other                                   Wi-Fi 6E Trials
      nearly three times faster gigabit data rates         Wi-Fi bands put together and deliver connections with
  •   Wi-Fi 6 is also now proven to deliver better         speeds equivalent to the new advanced 5G mobile,
      reliability, lower latency, more deterministic       support low-latency levels required for mobile gaming,
                                                           virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) applications,                                     Wi-Fi 6 Trials Report
      behaviour, and better network efficiency,
      especially in environments with many                 and Industry 4.0 solutions
      connected devices
                                                                                                                                                   Enhanced Wi-Fi 6
  •   Wi-Fi 6 will help with congestion problems,                                                                                                  Decoded
      increase densification of the network –
      helping to connect more devices, and
      enable new use cases                             EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
                                                                                                                                                   Wi-Fi 6 Deployment
  •   WBA is championing a global Wi-Fi 6/ 6E                                                                                                      Guidelines
                                                       •   Conduct trials of Wi-Fi 6/6E infrastructure and services
      program to ensure that industry needs are
                                                           on various scenarios and verticals including,
      addressed as Wi-Fi 6 and 5G standards are
                                                           manufacturing (IoT Industry 4.0), enterprise,
      ratified
                                                           transportation, stadiums, residential (SFU/MDU), cities
  •   WBA continues to develop and expand new              & rural areas, public venues, etc.                                                   Project Leaders
      trials that support Wi-Fi 6 and 6E expansion
                                                       •   Provide market data to help drive standardization and                                Leader: Necati Canpolat
      into new areas in different geographies
                                                           convergence within the wireless ecosystem                                            Intel
      around the world

                                                                                                                                                Co-Leader: Gabriel Desjardins
                                                                                                                                                Broadcom

                                                                   Wi-Fi 6E Trials
         2021    Project Kick off                                     Report

                     Q1                           Q2                     Q3                          Q4

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IN-HOME WI-FI – MULTI-AP SOLUTIONS

   BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES                    BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS                                LEADING PARTICIPANTS      RELEVANT PROJECTS

   •   With the rise of Multi-AP solutions and the     •       Tackle the challenges that have contributed to
       concept of mesh networks, there is a                    inconsistent performance in home environment Wi-Fi                                   Understand more about
       growing demand for open interoperability                deployments, including a lack of uniform coverage                                    In-Home Wi-Fi
       in the home environment, which escalates                and visibility into the in-home Wi-Fi experience
       further with the introduction of the IoT        •       Help operators understand the in-home
       devices                                                 transformation (including IoT) and increase customer
                                                               satisfaction through a better quality of experience                                  Multi-AP Trial Use Cases
   •   This project will define a set of
       performance metrics and subsequent test
       plans which will be collected from a group
       of operators’ live use cases, conducted in a                                                                                                 Wi-Fi Sensing
       real operating environment                                                                                                                   Whitepaper

   •   These range from enhanced Wi-Fi
       coverage, critical diagnostic information       EXPECTED DELIVERABLES                                                                        In-Home Wi-Fi
       needed by operators for remote                                                                                                               Guidelines
       management, dynamic KPI reporting,                  •    Define operator requirements and test cases under
       simple deployment per subscriber, among                  various deployment environments including Private
       others                                                   Wi-Fi, Guest Wi-Fi and Community Wi-Fi                                           Project Leaders
                                                           •    Address the deployment challenges, home network
                                                                security issues and define requirements with multi-AP                            Leader: John Bahr
                                                                solutions                                                                        CableLabs

                                                                                                                                                 Co-Leader: Koen Van Oost
                                                                                                                                                 AirTies

                                                                                                                                                 Co-Leader: Tim Twell
                                                                                                                                                 BT

         2021         Trial Kick Off                   Trial Report

                      Q1                          Q2                         Q3                        Q4

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WI-FI SENSING DEPLOYMENT GUIDELINES

   BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES                    BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS                               LEADING PARTICIPANTS      RELEVANT PROJECTS

   •   The last year has seen significant               •   Evaluate motion sensing capabilities being examined
       momentum gained in the area of Wi-Fi                 within the home environment, under distinct                                            Understand more about
       Sensing. This year’s WBA Wi-Fi Sensing               scenarios, to fast-track deployments                                                   Wi-Fi Sensing
       project has seen a definition of KPI and test
       procedures focused on a home monitoring          •   Help industry understanding better the sensing
       use-case, plus a successful deployment and           technology opportunity and accelerate go-to-market
                                                            of new home solutions                                                                  Wi-Fi 6 Deployment
       evaluation performed by CableLabs. This
                                                                                                                                                   Guidelines
       year has also seen multiple new products
       launched in this space
   •   With the generation of KPIs and test                                                                                                        Enhanced Wi-Fi 6
       procedures to evaluate them, one large gap                                                                                                  Decoded
       identified during the Wi-Fi Sensing Phase 2
       project, was the lack of guidelines,            EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
       procedures, or recommendations for how to                                                                                                   In-Home Wi-Fi
       optimally deploy a sensing network in a                                                                                                     Industry Guidelines
                                                        •   The expected deliverable is a deployment guideline
       home environment
                                                            document outlining recommendations on deploying a
   •   By expanding on the work performed in                W-Fi Sensing network, based on experimental results                                 Project Leaders
       2020 by the Wi-Fi Sensing group, a focus can
                                                        •   In addition, given the active work being done by IEEE,
       be placed on evaluating system                                                                                                           Leader: Chris Beg
                                                            this group would like to openly contribute any
       performance given different deployment                                                                                                   Cognitive Systems
                                                            information deemed relevant. This could include
       scenarios. By evaluating the results,
                                                            targeted deployment use-cases, measurement results,
       guidelines or recommendations can be                                                                                                     Co-Leader: Sandeep Agrawal
                                                            or desired functionality of which standard support can
       derived                                                                                                                                  C-DOT
                                                            help improve

                                                                                                                                                Co-Leader: Suresh Parathi
                                                                                                                                                Comcast

                                                                                                                                                Co-Leader: Michel Allegue
         2021         Project Kick Off                                           Whitepaper                                                     Aerial

                      Q1                          Q2                     Q3                         Q4

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TRACKSIDE CONNECTIVITY & SPECTRUM

   BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES                    BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS                               LEADING PARTICIPANTS      RELEVANT PROJECTS

  •   There is lack of industry standard for scaling    •   The combination of experience and technology
                                                                                                                                                   Understand more about
      up Wi-Fi connectivity in transportation and           among WBA members will be instrumental in
                                                                                                                                                   Trackside Connectivity &
      it may incur high CAPEX for enterprises or            developing a set of recommendations of industry best
                                                                                                                                                   Spectrum
      service providers to build good cellular              practices, standards and guidelines for TSNs
      coverage and important to provide cellular
      independent connectivity service.                 •   The recommendations from WBA will facilitate the
                                                            approval and development of TSN projects, resulting                                    RAN Convergence
  •   Due to the lack of standards and guidelines           in improved connectivity quality and coverage for                                      Whitepaper
      for Track-Side Networks (TSN), these                  end-users.
      deployments, in most cases, end up
      suffering from:                                                                                                                              Enhanced Wi-Fi 6
                                                                                                                                                   Decoded
  •   Disappointing Quality of Service and
      Experience
                                                       EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
  •   Higher costs that are difficult to justify“                                                                                                  Unlicensed Integration
                                                                                                                                                   with 5G Networks
  •   Unpredictable in terms of cost and quality        •   Provide a set of recommendations and TSN
                                                            Deployment Industry Guidelines document
  •   Uncertainty of monetization with
      transportation authorities due to lack of         •   Identify relevant cases for TSN with current Wi-Fi, Wi-
      benchmarks and role models                            Fi 6/6E technologies and paving the way to adapt 5G
                                                            usage for TSN.

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ROAMING WORK GROUP

Chair: Erinn Hall – AT&T

Co-Chair: Betty Cockrell – Single Digits

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ROAMING WORK GROUP

   BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES                    BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS                               LEADING PARTICIPANTS      RELEVANT PROJECTS

   •   The Roaming Work Group (RWG) is the              •   Introduce new opportunities on Wi-Fi Roaming
       umbrella group where all the topics                  business by enabling and extending available                                           Understand more about
       related to Wi-Fi Roaming are addressed.              footprint across the globe                                                             Roaming Work Group
   •   RWG has weekly calls to discuss and              •   Scale up the ecosystems and leverage synergies
       review evolutions to the Wireless                    among operators, Wi-Fi advocators, cities and public
       Roaming Intermediary eXchange (WRIX)                 and enterprise stakeholders                                                            Roaming Evolution
       specification, development of
       identification, interconnection, data and
       financial clearing of networks to help the
       industry in growing their Wi-Fi Roaming                                                                                                     WBA OpenRoaming™
       business ultimately.
   •   The latest projects include Roaming
       Evolution for the implementation of             EXPECTED DELIVERABLES                                                                       OpenRoaming for Private
       RadSec / PKI interconnection and WBA                                                                                                        LTE/5G
       OpenRoaming™ Task Force to implement             •   Maintenance and evolution of the WRIX
       all terms and agreements of                          specification, along with Wi-Fi Roaming best
       OpenRoaming™.                                        practices
                                                                                                                                                Project Leaders
                                                        •   Development of new Roaming Business and
                                                                                                                                                Chair: Erinn Hall
                                                            Charging Models
                                                                                                                                                AT&T
                                                        •   Promotes compliance and best practices to the
                                                                                                                                                Co-Chair: Betty Cockrell
                                                            benefit of the industry players
                                                                                                                                                Single Digits

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ROAMING EVOLUTION – PKI RADSEC

   BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES                    BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS                               LEADING PARTICIPANTS      RELEVANT PROJECTS

   •   As the Wi-Fi roaming systems scale with          •   Introduce new opportunities for Wi-Fi Roaming
       increased adoption, WBA has examined                 business by enabling and extending available
                                                                                                                                                   About WBA OpenRoaming
       options for automating aspects of WRIX               footprint across the globe
       security and aims to improve the standard        •   Scale up the ecosystems and leverage synergies
       of Wi-Fi roaming.                                    among operators, Wi-Fi advocators, cities and public
   •   This extends the benefits to different               and enterprise stakeholders.                                                           PKI RadSec - Operator
       stakeholders, allowing them to generate                                                                                                     Deployment Guidelines
       more business and revenue in the industry
   •   The Roaming Evolution is a mandate to                                                                                                       PKI RadSec – End-Entity
       enable a WBA Public Keying Infrastructure                                                                                                   Deployment Guidelines
       (PKI) for automating the security of
       roaming partners exchanges, allowing the
                                                       EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
       scalability of simplification of relations                                                                                                  PKI Certificate Policy
       across the ecosystem.                                                                                                                       (Members only)
                                                        •   Define deployment guidelines for interconnection and
                                                            simplification of the user experience
                                                        •   Offer PKI/RadSec platforms for simplified                                           Project Leaders
                                                            interconnection model of Authentication servers and
                                                            Customers databases for Wi-Fi networks                                              Leader: Luther Smith
                                                                                                                                                CableLabs
                                                        •   Define the standard to create a single Network ID to
                                                            simplify all the process of data clearing and increase                              Co-Leader: Betty Cockrell
                                                            data and networks intelligence                                                      Single Digits
                                                        •   Establish NGH Roaming Federation, in which                                          Co-Leader: Mark Grayson
                                                            participants (venues, operators, cities) will be able to                            Cisco
                                                            provide Wi-Fi Roaming by using a single Roaming
                                                            Consortium OI.
         2021         Project Closure

                     Q1                         Q2                        Q3                           Q4

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IN-FLIGHT CONNECTIVITY

   BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES                       BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS                             LEADING PARTICIPANTS      RELEVANT PROJECTS

  •   In 2019, WBA launched its In-Flight                 •    Showcase how a high-quality In-flight Connectivity
      Connectivity white paper which provided                  experience can help the industry to reduce network                                   Understand more about
      insight into the key drivers behind the                  operational costs and enable passengers to easily and                                In-Flight Connectivity
      growing demand for in-flight Wi-Fi access                securely connect to in-flight Wi-Fi services
      in airplanes. It also examined the evolving         •    Build and detail the technical enablement model for a
      technical advancements that offer a                      seamless and roaming experience across the globe –
      seamless connectivity experience for                     OpenRoaming™                                                                         WBA OpenRoamingTM
      customers. This paper was released prior            •    Provide recommendations to address the market
      to the launch of WBA OpenRoaming™,                       challenges, surpassed using the OpenRoaming™
      which aims to standardize all Wi-Fi                      business models                                                                      In-Flight Connectivity-
      Roaming.                                                                                                                                      Wi-Fi Deployment & Use Cases
  •   Following up on the work in 2020, the
      project team is focused on deploying                EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
      OpenRoaming into the aviation sector,                                                                                                         Wi-Fi 6 Trials Report
      with a series of trials involving operators,
                                                           •   Set the benchmark for the value proposition of in-
      satellite and infrastructure providers, as
                                                               flight connectivity and recommendation of
      well as roaming HUBs.
                                                               monetization tactics for airlines
                                                                                                                                                 Project Leaders
  •   Paired with these initiatives, the WBA IFC
                                                           •   Analyze technical challenges and opportunities for in-
      team is also looking to dwell on the gaps                                                                                                  Leader: Angelos Mavridis
                                                               flight connectivity enablement options through
      of existing connectivity use cases and                                                                                                     Deutsche Telekom
                                                               prominent use cases
      business models, to help the industry
      increasing overall usage of connectivity in                                                                                                Co-Leader: Charlie Allgrove
                                                           •   Develop a set of test cases under key deployment
      airplanes.                                                                                                                                 Single Digits
                                                               scenarios for optimal In-flight Wi-Fi connectivity
                                                                                                                                                 Co-Leader: Ed Kyte
                                                                                                                                                 Panasonic

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PROFILES & RCOIS PRIORITIZATION

   BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES                    BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS                                      LEADING PARTICIPANTS      RELEVANT PROJECTS

  •   With the expansion of Passpoint networks         •    It is important to identify a set of standardization in the
      and recent launch of WBA                              way profiles and RCOIs are prioritized. A solution to                                         Understand more about
      OpenRoaming™, the landscape of identity               this problem will allow:                                                                      Profiles & RCOI Prioritization
      providers is undergoing a paradigm shift
                                                             o   End-user will have more control over which profile he
  •   While in the past, we would expect the                     wishes to be used
      identity to come from a mobile network                     Identity providers will have better expectations and
                                                             o                                                                                            WBA OpenRoamingTM
      operator (MNO), through EAP-SIM –                          clarity in terms of prioritizing RCOIs within a profile
      Subscriber Identity Module -, the industry is
      now seeing other different stakeholders                o   Access network providers will, eventually, be able to take
      becoming identity providers and                            options in terms of what profiles / RCOIs they wish to see
                                                                 prioritized                                                                              WRIX Framework
      challenging the status quo
  •   Profiles provisioning and the prioritization
      and selection of Roaming Consortium              EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
                                                                                                                                                          WBA OpenRoaming™
      Organization Identifiers (RCOIs). are the
                                                                                                                                                          Release 1 (Members Only)
      questions for service providers to offer
                                                        •   Provide industry guideline and best practices for
      good user experience for their costumers
                                                            prioritization of RCOIs within a profile
                                                        •   Examine on how identity providers and access
                                                            network providers can prioritize profiles
                                                        •   Provide standardization recommendation to be shared
                                                            with device and infrastructure providers on how
                                                            profile and RCOI prioritization will ideally be achieved

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WBA OPENROAMINGTM FOR PRIVATE LTE/5G

   BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES                    BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS                               LEADING PARTICIPANTS      RELEVANT PROJECTS

   •   Private 5G network deployments are              •    Private 5G networks can provide new business
       expected to ramp up significantly over the           opportunities to enterprises to enhance services and                                   Understand more about
       next few years in sectors like                       deliver new use cases with greater level of control and                                WBA OpenRoamingTM
       manufacturing (industrial IoT), utilities,           flexibility.
       supply chain, healthcare, transportation
       etc.                                            •    Private 5G networks can be deployed over licensed
                                                            spectrum, shared spectrum (e.g. CBRS spectrum for 5G,                                  WBA OpenRoamingTM
   •   With the latest developments in Wi-Fi                dedicated private 5G spectrum in Germany) or                                           Release 1 (Members Only)
       standards with Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 6E and                 unlicensed spectrum (with Wi-Fi and NR-U) and will be
       continued evolution to Wi-Fi 7 with TSN              tailored for specific industry needs, creating new
       support, the Wi-Fi technology with                   service opportunities that improve experiences and                                     PKI Certificate Policy
       scheduling, lower latency, higher                    operations.                                                                            (Members Only)
       throughput and green field spectrum is
       well positioned to meet requirements for        EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
       many of the industrial use cases. This has                                                                                                  User Engagement in
       been demonstrated by the latest WBA Wi-                                                                                                     OpenRoaming Era
                                                        •   Identify business opportunities , operational benefits
       Fi 6 Mettis trials, where Wi-Fi 6 was used to
                                                            and simplify device management for 5G and Wi-Fi
       support mission critical industrial
                                                            access networks within private 5G enterprise                                        Project Leaders
       applications and use cases that were not
                                                            deployments.
       possible with the previous Wi-Fi
       generations.                                     •   Evaluate potential optimization of 5G and Wi-Fi                                     Leader: Mark Grayson
                                                            convergence architecture with collocated                                            Cisco
   •   Wi-Fi is incumbent technology in
                                                            deployments of 5G access and Wi-Fi access networks.                                 Co-Leader: Betty Cockrell
       enterprises, and private 5G networks will
       be deployed along with Wi-Fi to meet             •   Identify roaming use cases between 5G and Wi-Fi                                     Single Digits
       wireless communication needs by                      within and across private 5G networks.                                              Co-Leader: Finbarr Coghlan
       leveraging capabilities and resources
                                                        •   Examine spectrum related considerations and any                                     Orange
       across both the networks
                                                            impact of spectrum selection on the 5G and Wi-Fi                                    Co-Leader: Necati Canpolat
                                                            interworking in private 5G networks.                                                Intel

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WBA OPENROAMINGTM STANDARDS

   BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES                    BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS                               LEADING PARTICIPANTS      RELEVANT PROJECTS

   •   WBA OpenRoaming™ is a roaming                    •   Creates a federation of networks and identity
       federation service enabling an automatic             providers to enable automatic roaming and user
       and secure Wi-Fi experience globally.                                                                                                       About WBA OpenRoaming™
                                                            onboarding on Wi-Fi
       With WBA OpenRoaming™, we are
       creating an open connectivity framework          •   Enable simple, secure and scalable Wi-Fi connections
       for all organizations in the wireless                amongst different organizations that are part of WBA
                                                            OpenRoaming™                                                                           Wi-Fi 6
       ecosystem to power new opportunities in
                                                                                                                                                   Deployment Guidelines
       the 5G era                                       •   Based on WBA’s Wireless Roaming Intermediary
   •   WBA OpenRoaming™ transforms the Wi-Fi                eXchange (WRIX) standards to scale and facilitate
       experience for consumers and businesses              different business models under a harmonized                                           Wi-Fi Roaming Standard
       and ultimately opens up opportunities for            framework                                                                              (WRIX)
       broadband and the Internet of Things
       (IoT) connectivity across business              EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
       verticals, including retail, hospitality,                                                                                                   Carrier Wireless Services
       education, smart cities, automotive and                                                                                                     Certification (CWSC)
                                                        •   Allow automatic and secure roaming between
       aviation, among many others. Devices                 millions of networks, nationally and globally with
       simply connect automatically and                     secured interconnection and encrypted
       securely on to the WBA OpenRoaming™                                                                                                      Project Leaders
                                                            communications
       network
                                                                                                                                                Leader: Mark Grayson
                                                        •   Defines an automated roaming consortium codes
                                                                                                                                                Cisco
                                                            framework (RCOI) to support policy provision on
                                                            devices and networks. Organizations that manage a
                                                                                                                                                Co-Leader: Betty Cockrell
                                                            Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Passpoint®-enabled network may
                                                                                                                                                Single Digits
                                                            become part of the WBA OpenRoaming™ federation
                                                                                                                                                Co-Leader: Finbarr Coghlan
                                                                                                                                                Orange
                                                                                                                                                Co-Leader: Necati Canpolat
                                                                                                                                                Intel
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TESTING & INTEROPERABILITY WORK GROUP

Chair: Michael Sym – Single Digits

Co-Chair: Erinn Hall – AT&T

Co-Chair: Peter Thornycroft – Aruba Networks

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CAPTIVE PORTAL – ONBOARDING EVOLUTION

      BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES                  BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS                              LEADING PARTICIPANTS      RELEVANT PROJECTS

  •     WBA published the Captive Network Portal        •   Provide industry guidelines to enhance user
        Standards white paper which analyses                experience with seamless, automatic and secure Wi-Fi                                   Understand more about
        captive portal behavior across operating            connection via captive portals                                                         Captive Portal
        systems, use cases for NGH/Passpoint® and
        identifies a set of recommendations for         •   Address technical challenges and identify business
        future features to standardize the way              strategies to engage with users via the captive portals
                                                            to analyze user behavior, simplify the Wi-Fi roaming                                   Access HERE the
        Captive Portals are utilized.                                                                                                              Device Behavior Database
                                                            experience and generate insight of different
  •     The Onboarding Evolution stage focuses on           monetization tactics
        improving the user experience of
        “captivation” and how end-users engage
                                                                                                                                                   Captive Portal Network
        with captive portals in the Passpoint® era;
                                                                                                                                                   Standards for Wi-Fi
        provides recommendations on technical and
        business challenges; and outlines the role of   EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
        captive portals for interconnecting
                                                                                                                                                   User Engagement in
        networks, as well, in a Federated ecosystem.
                                                        •   Provide Captive Portal deployment guidelines with                                      OpenRoaming™ Era
  •     During 2020, the team has launched a                particular emphasis on user experience across
        second delivered focused on how                     operating systems
        captivation will evolve during an
        OpenRoaming Era.                                •   Encompass different onboarding methodologies that
                                                            are used with different economic outcomes and                                        Project Leaders
                                                            assess how the captive portal will evolve in each one                                Leader: Ilya Volynkin
                                                            of them, as Passpoint® and a Global Federation                                       Maxima Telecom
                                                            comes into the scene
                                                                                                                                                 Co-Leader: Chris Spencer
                                                                                                                                                 GlobalReach
                                                                                                                                                 Co-Leader: Alex Meub
                                                                                                                                                 Eleven Software

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WI-FI IMSI PRIVACY PROTECTION

   BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES                    BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS                               LEADING PARTICIPANTS      RELEVANT PROJECTS

   •   To provide solutions that enable mobile         •   Standardization for seamless, private and secure
       devices to keep their permanent                     access for SIM-based devices onto to Wi-Fi                                              Understand more about
       subscriber identity (IMSI) private when                                                                                                     IMSI Privacy Protection
                                                       •   Provide clear guidelines to ensure that service
       using SIM authentication methods
                                                           providers can deploy secure and interoperable Wi-Fi
   •   EAP methods are mostly used by wireless             services with confidence
       carriers and operators who want to take                                                                                                     Wi-Fi Roaming
       advantage of Wi-Fi capabilities for their                                                                                                   Standards
       SIM subscribers alongside or instead of
       licensed mobile radio service; in service-
       environments such as sports or shopping                                                                                                     Roaming Evolution
       venues; underground locations; and to
       improve the overall experience for end-
       users when Wi-Fi and mobile services are        EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
       combined for the SIM subscriber’s benefit.                                                                                                  Security &
       Passpoint enables the cellular carrier to                                                                                                   Identity Privacy
                                                       •   Joint collaboration between operators and vendors to
       offload data by providing a means to                formulate the best practice on security policy and
       have an automated connection to                     privacy protection on SIM based devices
       available Wi-Fi providers
                                                       •   Develop guidelines and compliance program to                                           Project Leaders
                                                           guarantee broad industry deployment and alignment
                                                                                                                                                  Leader: Hai Shalom
                                                       •   Work with Wi-Fi Alliance and 3GPP to promote the                                       Google
                                                           adoption of potential solutions
                                                                                                                                                  Co-Leader: Michael Sym
                                                                                                                                                  Single Digits
                                                                                                                                                  Co-Leader: Paul Hancock
                                                                                                                                                  AT&T
         2021        Specification     Certification Assessment

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WI-FI DEVICES IDENTIFICATION

   BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES                    BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS                                LEADING PARTICIPANTS      RELEVANT PROJECTS

  •   Many Wi-Fi networks have until now relied        •   The project will identify the requirements for device
      on the original permanence of device MAC             identifiers for network access and management,                                           Understand more about
      addresses to facilitate access to or                 examine the currently available identification                                           Wi-Fi & Devices Identification
      management of the network. This                      mechanisms and information and make
      permanence is actively being removed and             recommendations as to how device identification
      can no longer be relied upon.                        should be performed and used for network
                                                           management.                                                                              Wi-Fi 6 Deployment
  •   Without a new way to identify devices on                                                                                                      Guidelines
      Wi-Fi networks, the networks will cease to       •   Such solutions should help network access
      be either as manageable or as functional as          identification standardization across different verticals,
      they were. This will have customer                   namely throughout the home, the enterprise and the                                       Enhanced Wi-Fi 6
      experience impacts as well as financial              public domains.                                                                          Decoded
      ones.
  •   The main objective is to promote the             EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
                                                                                                                                                    In-Home Wi-Fi
      removal of reliance on a persistent Wi-Fi                                                                                                     Industry Guidelines
      MAC from Wi-Fi networks by identifying           •   The project would produce a technical paper
      long-term solutions for stable, private,             promoting best practice, and where necessary provide
      network-specific identifiers that are                rationale, business- and use-case information to other
      appropriate for the use to which they are            standards bodies to assist their activities.                                          Project Leaders
      put.
                                                       •   The success or otherwise of the project will be                                       Leader: Tim Twell
                                                           measured against the disruption of services that users                                BT
                                                           experience during the transition to per-session MAC
                                                           randomization of client devices.                                                      Co-Leader: Luther Smith
                                                                                                                                                 CableLabs
                                                                                                                                                 Co-Leader: Ilya Volynkin
                                                                                                                                                 Maxima Telecom

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POLICY WORK GROUP

Chair: Burhan Masood - Broadcom

Co-Chair: Brian Josef - Comcast

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POLICY & REGULATORY AFFAIRS WORK GROUP

   BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES                    BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS                               LEADING PARTICIPANTS      RELEVANT PROJECTS

   •   The objective of WBA’s Policy & Regulatory      •    Work closely with WBA members and regulatory bodies
       Affairs Work Group is to track global trends         for improved Wi-Fi (more spectrum, better security, user                               Understand more about
       and relevant policy & spectrum issues that           experience, Passpoint® & Roaming)                                                      Policy Work Group
       are of concern to the WBA membership.
                                                       •    Validate business opportunities of new Wi-Fi
   •   The Work Group will coordinate Wi-Fi                 generations working in new spectrum brands and work
       advocacy efforts across membership, cities,          with regulators globally                                                               Wi-Fi 6 Deployment
       regions and regulators globally.                                                                                                            Guidelines
                                                       •    Embrace the benefits of WBA OpenRoamingTM to
   •   To provide and issue industry guidelines and         support user authentication and address regulatory
       white papers that outline recommendations            requirements for user identification issues
       to regulators and authorities in respect to                                                                                                 Wi-Fi 6E Trials
       various spectrums ranges, worldwide bands
       allocation and public consultation
       consensus and responses                         EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
                                                                                                                                                   Global Implication for
                                                                                                                                                   Wi-Fi 6 & 6Ghz
                                                        6 GHz band harmonization
                                                        •   US FCC 6 GHz FNPRM ruling gaps coverage
                                                                                                                                                Work Group Leaders
                                                        •   Client-to-client communication
                                                                                                                                                Chair: Burhan Masood
                                                        •   Successful advocacy with regional leaders in Asia,                                  Broadcom
                                                            and South America
                                                                                                                                                Co-Chair: Brian Josef
                                                        •   Strategy for upper 6 GHz band in EU                                                 Comcast

                                                        OpenRoaming™ and Passpoint® collaboration strategy
                                                        •   911 emergency calling over Wi-Fi trial

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MARKET WORK GROUP

Chair: Melody Eclavea – AT&T

Co-Chair: Melody Walker – Boingo Wireless          Supported by WBA Marketing

Co-Chair: Gabriel Desjardins - Broadcom

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MARKET WORK GROUP

      BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES                 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS                               LEADING PARTICIPANTS      RELEVANT PROJECTS

  •     WBA's Market Work Group is comprised of a      •    Work closely with WBA members and partners to
        team of professional marketers from WBA             enable marketing and business opportunities.
                                                                                                                                                   Current Members
        member companies.                              •    Promote the works of the Alliance members which
  •     The team aims to develop and align the              address business & technical issues, as well as
        various marketing activities carried out by         opportunities for member companies.
        the WBA, including but not limited to          •    Promote effective marketing channels for members to                                    WBA Programs & Projects
        general marketing, event marketing, and             increase their influence in the industry.
        thought leadership with an overall goal of
        accelerating marketing and business            •    Work closely with media, journalists, research and
        opportunities.                                      analysts to strengthen and communicate all the                                         Wireless Global Congress
                                                            potentials and benefits of Wi-Fi.

                                                       EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
                                                                                                                                                   Industry Awards
                                                        •   Strengthen branding positioning – ensure success of
                                                            the Alliance and other initiatives reflects on the WBA
                                                            brands and sub-brands
                                                                                                                                                Work Group Leaders
                                                        •   Continue to enhance WBA’s members leadership
                                                            position as the ‘voice of Wi-Fi’                                                    Chair: Melody Eclavea
                                                                                                                                                AT&T
                                                        •   Drive the engagement among exiting members and
                                                            followers.                                                                          Co-Leader: Melody Walker
                                                                                                                                                Boingo Wireless
                                                                                                                                                Co-Leader: Gabriel Desjardins
                                                                                                                                                Broadcom

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OPENROAMING™ MARKET REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT

     BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES                  BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS                               LEADING PARTICIPANTS      RELEVANT PROJECTS

 •    WBA OpenRoaming creates the framework to         •   Address market and motivation of OpenRoaming
      connect billions of users and devices to
      millions of Wi-Fi networks globally.             •   Define business model and go to market strategy                                         WBA OpenRoamingTM

 •    With OpenRoaming the WBA is acting as a          •   Define use cases, priorities and business requirements
      centralized policy authority enabling an             for technical implementation
      ecosystem for identity providers and Wi-Fi       •   Define scope of interoperability certifications                                         How it works?
      network providers to work together and
      deliver an automatic and secure Wi-Fi
      experience to millions of users.
 •    WBA OpenRoaming enables companies to                                                                                                         Benefits
      accelerate and scale Wi-Fi roaming
      relationships. Enabled networks can
      automatically onboard users securely             EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
      leveraging established identity providers                                                                                                    FAQ
      such as operators, cloud IDs and loyalty         •   Create a clear set of requirements and prioritize
      memberships; bridging the gap between Wi-            them based on business-critical elements and
      Fi and cellular networks.                            addressable market
 •    This sub-group aims to define the market         •   Set within the market opportunity, the competition,
      opportunity and requirements for                     risks and dependencies
      OpenRoaming™ from business and
      marketing perspective in order to enable         •   Hand over the technical work-groups to define the
      effective technical deployment addressing            solutions and delivery
      the business needs.

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WBA CERTIFICATION

   BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES                    BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS                               LEADING PARTICIPANTS      RELEVANT PROJECTS

    •   Carrier Wireless Service Certification          •   WBA has launched its Certification Program starting
        (CWSC) program allows carriers and                  with the Carrier Wireless Services Certification                                       Understand more about
        vendors to independently test and certify           (CWSC) testing for members and sponsored partners.                                     CWSC
        devices.
                                                        •   CWSC provides unprecedented capabilities to test
    •   The program utilizes WBA Authorised                 the end-to-end wireless ecosystem to guarantee that
        Test Labs, working with Members and                 the service operation and user experience is                                           Wi-Fi Roaming
        their partners to simulate end customer             consistent across real life networks                                                   Standards
        usability in a real network environment
        to ensure that devices are ready for
        worldwide commercial deployments,                                                                                                          Roaming Evolution
        reducing customer support time for
        carriers and time to market for vendors.
    •   WBA Certification is expanding the             EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
        testing opportunities to services such as                                                                                                   WBA OpenRoamingTM
        network interoperability, roaming,              •   Joint collaboration between operators and vendors
        offload and captive portal behavior                 to develop a compliance program to guarantee
                                                            broad industry deployment and alignment
                                                                                                                                                Project Leader
                                                        •   Maintain a current set of equipment to get used in
                                                            certification                                                                       Ilya Volynkin
                                                                                                                                                Maxima Telecom
                                                        •   Evaluate and monitor the Authorized Test Labs
                                                        •   Work with Wi-Fi Alliance and 3GPP to promote the
                                                            adoption of potential solutions                                                     Authorized Test Labs (ATLs)

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WBA OpenRoaming™ Federation
          www.openroaming.org

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OPENROAMING™: OPENING THE ECOSYSTEM FOR NEW BUSINESS MODELS

                 WBA OpenRoamingTM is a framework that brings together
                 key capabilities to create the federation and enables it to
                             scale and work on a global basis.

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WHAT IS WBA OPENROAMINGTM

WBA OpenRoamingTM is based on a set of business and technical components that enables the function of the roaming federation

                                           WBA OpenRoamingTM                            WBA OpenRoamingTM Components
                                              Dimensions                                 & Standard & Technical specs

                                                                     •   Manages secure public keying infrastructure (PKI) / RadSec Technology for
                                                   Cybersecurity         certificates policy, management and broker services
                                                   Service
  WBA OpenRoaming™ is a                                              •   Supports dynamic & static interconnection technologies
  roaming federation service
  enabling an automatic and
                                                                     •   Operates centralized federation policies and global identifiers for Wi-Fi
  secure Wi-Fi experience
                                                                         networks & identity providers
  globally. With WBA
                                                   Cloud             •   WBA unique Wi-Fi network identifier (WBAID) for federation partners
  OpenRoaming™, we are creating                    Federation
  an open connectivity framework                                     •   Wireless Roaming Intermediary eXchange (WRIX) standard enables
  for all organizations in the                                           roaming services harmonization and multiple business models

  wireless ecosystem to power
  new opportunities in the 5G era.                                   •   Manages automated roaming consortium codes
  It encompasses three key                         Network               and policy provisioning mechanisms
  elements:                                        Automation
                                                                     •   Utilizes Passpoint® technology

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WHAT WE DO

          WI-FI 6 & 6E                                  5G & WI-FI RAN CONVERGENCE                           OPENROAMING™

                       Key use
                      cases for
                      Wi-Fi 6 &
                         6E

              WBA RELEASES                                                                                              WBA CERTIFICATION

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                                                                                                                   PARTNERS

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