Apart from meeting customers and partners, one of the more fun aspects of my job is mingling with the industry’s newest and brightest entrepreneurs. Last week I traveled to the Red Herring Top 100 North America conference in Los Angeles to present on behalf of Mimosa, named as one of the finalists for the prestigious “Red Herring Top 100 North America 2017” Award.

At Mimosa, we are dedicated to our partners’ continued success. That is why I am excited to announce that today we are launching our Premier Partner Program, designed to create value and provide a one-stop destination for our partners. We are very proud of this feature-rich program which was developed after extensive consultation with our partners. The goal of the program is to generate new revenue streams and provide support in the form of marketing and sales tools.

With the availability of firmware version 2.3.0, we welcome support for the new, long-range Mimosa C5c connectorized client for Point-to-Point and Point-to-Multipoint applications.

It’s here! Today we announced the commercial availability of our C5c connectorized client radio. The C5c rounds out our suite of client devices, and in combination with our comprehensive backhaul and access offerings, delivers on our vision of a complete cloud-to-client 5G Fixed wireless solution. The C5c serves traditional tower and GigaPoP architectures, and our innovative MicroPoP architecture approach.

Last week, Jaime hopped on a plane to Washington for three days of action at Wi-Fi NOW. In addition to meeting with many customers and presenting a keynote on the role of wireless in delivering high-speed internet, Jaime came home with a very special award commemorating his induction into the inaugural Wi-Fi NOW Hall of Fame.

The Wi-Fi NOW Hall of Fame was created by the event’s organizers to honor and show gratitude towards individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the Wi-Fi industry.

Barcelona certainly was abuzz with 5G marketing this year, with soaring banners making claims of “the leader in 5G technology” all around. But many attendees walked away shrugging their shoulders still contemplating, “what is 5G?”

After meeting with scores of press, analysts, service providers and vendors I can’t say that I came home with a clear answer. But I did gain a clear consensus perspective on what real consumer speed and connectivity demands are, and what most industry experts believe are the most viable and practical paths forward to a 5G future.

It’s incredibly fitting as Mimosa celebrates our 5th anniversary this month that we today launch our eagerly anticipated 5G Fixed Wireless solutions.

In 2016 we witnessed an unprecedented change in direction for internet access in America, as the most prominent ISPs in the country continued to back-off their fiber plans. This is making way for new fixed wireless technologies as the final connection to consumers in the last-mile.

Unfortunately, all useful wireless spectrum has been allocated, so the important next step is to identify underutilized spectrum that could be re-allocated or shared, to keep up with demand for internet access.

We addressed the operating environment for Mimosa products in a previous Tech Tuesday blog post. As a refresher, our products are tested and rated for outdoor operation in the temperature range -40°C to +55°C (-40°F to 131°F). One thing we didn’t cover was the internal temperature of our devices and how this should be interpreted.