Comcast Introduces Business Wireless Gateway, Managed WiFi Service

Comcast Business yesterday unveiled a “made for business” Cisco dual SSID gateway, which it calls the Comcast Business Wireless Gateway. In what appears to be an indication of increasing coordination in advance of the proposed union of Comcast and TWC, TWC Business Class also announced they will supply and manage Wi-Fi access points at commercial Internet customer locations. (See separate story in this issue).

Like TWC, Comcast is configuring the “free” gateways to supply both internal networking for staff, “amenity Wi-Fi” for customers and a public-facing Xfinity Wi-Fi network connection available to qualified residential data subscribers.

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