NETGEAR, Inc. today announced two leadership appointments as it expands its investment in multifamily managed WiFi market. Azif Abdul Salam joins as Senior Director, Solutions Architecture, and Yancey Johnson joins as Vertical Account Director, strengthening NETGEAR Enterprise’s technical and commercial support for managed service providers (MSPs) serving apartment owners and operators.
Reliable, property-wide WiFi is an increasingly important amenity for renters and an operational priority for property owners. Yet only 5% to 7% of U.S. rental communities offer it today, while 81% of renters say they want it, according to research from Maravedis. Delivering it requires networks that provide private resident connectivity and can be deployed and managed efficiently across entire property portfolios.
MSPs play a central role in designing, deploying and operating these networks for property owners. They need technology that scales across properties, predictable costs per apartment and a vendor committed to supporting their business over time.
NETGEAR Enterprise’s multifamily networking portfolio includes multifamily network: WiFi 7 and WiFi 6 access points, WiFi 6 in-unit wall plates, multi-gig PoE switches and gateways, all managed from NETGEAR’s single-pane-of-glass management platform designed for the MDU market. Each apartment needs its own private network, and the platform gives every unit a separate one through multi-PSK and VLAN segmentation, so residents get the privacy of a home connection.
NETGEAR’s platform was built for MSPs. One account holds every customer property, new sites onboard in bulk with zero-touch provisioning, and licenses move between properties. If the platform is ever unreachable, the network keeps running and every device can still be managed locally, so residents stay online.
Azif Abdul Salam has more than 24 years of experience in wireless and wired networking. He held pre-sales and post-sales roles at Symbol, Motorola and Zebra, built the solutions quality assurance team at Ruckus Wireless, and led Solutions Engineering for North America at Cambium Networks, where he developed the company’s MDU capabilities.
Yancey Johnson spent 14 years as Regional Sales Manager, Southeast, at Cambium Networks. Before Cambium, he worked at wireless vendors Radwin and Firetide. At NETGEAR, he will lead account development and relationships with MSPs serving the multifamily market.
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NETGEAR expands investment in multifamily managed WiFi with two industry veterans
NETGEAR, Inc. today announced two leadership appointments as it expands its investment in multifamily managed WiFi market. Azif Abdul Salam joins as Senior Director, Solutions Architecture, and Yancey Johnson joins as Vertical Account Director, strengthening NETGEAR Enterprise’s technical and commercial support for managed service providers (MSPs) serving apartment owners and operators.
Reliable, property-wide WiFi is an increasingly important amenity for renters and an operational priority for property owners. Yet only 5% to 7% of U.S. rental communities offer it today, while 81% of renters say they want it, according to research from Maravedis. Delivering it requires networks that provide private resident connectivity and can be deployed and managed efficiently across entire property portfolios.
MSPs play a central role in designing, deploying and operating these networks for property owners. They need technology that scales across properties, predictable costs per apartment and a vendor committed to supporting their business over time.
NETGEAR Enterprise’s multifamily networking portfolio includes multifamily network: WiFi 7 and WiFi 6 access points, WiFi 6 in-unit wall plates, multi-gig PoE switches and gateways, all managed from NETGEAR’s single-pane-of-glass management platform designed for the MDU market. Each apartment needs its own private network, and the platform gives every unit a separate one through multi-PSK and VLAN segmentation, so residents get the privacy of a home connection.
NETGEAR’s platform was built for MSPs. One account holds every customer property, new sites onboard in bulk with zero-touch provisioning, and licenses move between properties. If the platform is ever unreachable, the network keeps running and every device can still be managed locally, so residents stay online.
Azif Abdul Salam has more than 24 years of experience in wireless and wired networking. He held pre-sales and post-sales roles at Symbol, Motorola and Zebra, built the solutions quality assurance team at Ruckus Wireless, and led Solutions Engineering for North America at Cambium Networks, where he developed the company’s MDU capabilities.
Yancey Johnson spent 14 years as Regional Sales Manager, Southeast, at Cambium Networks. Before Cambium, he worked at wireless vendors Radwin and Firetide. At NETGEAR, he will lead account development and relationships with MSPs serving the multifamily market.
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