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The Smart Apartment Era Is Ending. The Smart Building Contract Is Next.
Vendor revenue for PropTech and IoT systems in U.S. multifamily housing is projected to approach $4 billion by 2031, up from $1.5 billion in 2026. But the ceiling barely moves...
The Smart Apartment Era Is Ending. The Smart Building Contract Is Next.
Vendor revenue for PropTech and IoT systems in U.S. multifamily housing is projected to approach $4 billion by 2031, up from $1.5 billion in 2026. But the ceiling barely moves...
The Case for the Independent Director in Multifamily Tech
Private equity did not just finance the consolidation of multifamily connectivity. It rewrote the segment's governance model. Sponsor-controlled boards now oversee these platforms, and in an industry where the controlling...
The Case for the Independent Director in Multifamily Tech
Private equity did not just finance the consolidation of multifamily connectivity. It rewrote the segment's governance model. Sponsor-controlled boards now oversee these platforms, and in an industry where the controlling...
The Private Equity Decade in Multifamily Tech
Financial sponsors now own most of the meaningful independent operators in U.S. multifamily connectivity. That capital funded a technology roadmap founders could not have financed, and it also imported clocks,...
The Private Equity Decade in Multifamily Tech
Financial sponsors now own most of the meaningful independent operators in U.S. multifamily connectivity. That capital funded a technology roadmap founders could not have financed, and it also imported clocks,...
The PropTech Stack Independent Senior Living Actually Buy
Independent living operators do not buy PropTech categories. They buy relief from specific problems: a door system, a notification app, leak sensors. This piece works through the stack the segment...
The PropTech Stack Independent Senior Living Actually Buy
Independent living operators do not buy PropTech categories. They buy relief from specific problems: a door system, a notification app, leak sensors. This piece works through the stack the segment...
Multifamily's Tech Stack Reckoning
Everybody's second priority, nobody's first. What the 2026 RETTC benchmarking survey reveals about multifamily's tech stack problem, and why layering AI on 70 applications makes rationalization urgent rather than optional.
Multifamily's Tech Stack Reckoning
Everybody's second priority, nobody's first. What the 2026 RETTC benchmarking survey reveals about multifamily's tech stack problem, and why layering AI on 70 applications makes rationalization urgent rather than optional.
The Bulk Managed WiFi Threat didn't die. It fragmented.
Nine jurisdictions now regulate bulk managed WiFi, and none of them have banned it. They capped the margin instead. A state-by-state map of opt-out rights, forced access, markup caps, and...
The Bulk Managed WiFi Threat didn't die. It fragmented.
Nine jurisdictions now regulate bulk managed WiFi, and none of them have banned it. They capped the margin instead. A state-by-state map of opt-out rights, forced access, markup caps, and...
Managed Connectivity for Seniors: The Next Wave of Growth
Senior housing occupancy has climbed for twenty straight quarters while new construction sits at decade lows, which makes independent living a brownfield market. Operators cannot build their way to a...
Managed Connectivity for Seniors: The Next Wave of Growth
Senior housing occupancy has climbed for twenty straight quarters while new construction sits at decade lows, which makes independent living a brownfield market. Operators cannot build their way to a...
Exclusive Interview with WISPA CEO David Zumwalt on transformation, capital, spectrum and the next three years
Four years into his tenure at WISPA, President and CEO David Zumwalt sits down with Maravedis to discuss the transformation of the WISP industry: why he now calls his 600...
Exclusive Interview with WISPA CEO David Zumwalt on transformation, capital, spectrum and the next three years
Four years into his tenure at WISPA, President and CEO David Zumwalt sits down with Maravedis to discuss the transformation of the WISP industry: why he now calls his 600...
Wi-Fi Carries Over 80% of Traffic. Monetizing It Is Still an Unfinished Story.
Wi-Fi carries over 80 percent of traffic but captures a fraction of the value. Our read of the WBA's new monetization paper: why revenue lives above the connectivity layer, how...
Wi-Fi Carries Over 80% of Traffic. Monetizing It Is Still an Unfinished Story.
Wi-Fi carries over 80 percent of traffic but captures a fraction of the value. Our read of the WBA's new monetization paper: why revenue lives above the connectivity layer, how...
Netgear's Quiet Reinvention as a B2B and SaaS Company
NETGEAR is no longer primarily a consumer router company: its Enterprise division now generates 55 percent of revenue and is growing double digits, anchored by the Insight cloud platform built...
Netgear's Quiet Reinvention as a B2B and SaaS Company
NETGEAR is no longer primarily a consumer router company: its Enterprise division now generates 55 percent of revenue and is growing double digits, anchored by the Insight cloud platform built...
The End of the Smart Apartment Era
The smart apartment gadget era is over. Maravedis's upcoming report, PropTech Evolution in U.S. Multifamily 2026-2031, examines the shift to integrated building intelligence, drawing on months of executive briefings. Key...
The End of the Smart Apartment Era
The smart apartment gadget era is over. Maravedis's upcoming report, PropTech Evolution in U.S. Multifamily 2026-2031, examines the shift to integrated building intelligence, drawing on months of executive briefings. Key...
MDU Consolidation Has a Plumbing Problem
WiBUZ CEO Magnus Johansson responds to the Maravedis series on MDU consolidation with the operator's answer: the winners won't be decided by door count, but by who can run what...
MDU Consolidation Has a Plumbing Problem
WiBUZ CEO Magnus Johansson responds to the Maravedis series on MDU consolidation with the operator's answer: the winners won't be decided by door count, but by who can run what...
Why Consolidation Will Reshape MDU Connectivity (Part 3/3)
Part 3 argues that buying doors is the easy part of consolidation, and stitching the acquired networks into one operator is the hard part. The real difficulty is not the...
Why Consolidation Will Reshape MDU Connectivity (Part 3/3)
Part 3 argues that buying doors is the easy part of consolidation, and stitching the acquired networks into one operator is the hard part. The real difficulty is not the...
Why Consolidation Will Reshape MDU Connectivity (Part 2/3)
Part 1 argued that demand from the largest operators, the per-door economies of scale, and the direction of institutional capital are all pushing multifamily connectivity toward a smaller number of...
Why Consolidation Will Reshape MDU Connectivity (Part 2/3)
Part 1 argued that demand from the largest operators, the per-door economies of scale, and the direction of institutional capital are all pushing multifamily connectivity toward a smaller number of...
What Was Announced at HPE Discover 2026
At HPE Discover 2026, HPE laid out a three-layer "AI that acts" blueprint under GreenLake, with self-driving networks, agentic infrastructure, and intelligent hybrid operations threaded together by one Marvis AI...
What Was Announced at HPE Discover 2026
At HPE Discover 2026, HPE laid out a three-layer "AI that acts" blueprint under GreenLake, with self-driving networks, agentic infrastructure, and intelligent hybrid operations threaded together by one Marvis AI...
Why Consolidation Will Reshape MDU Connectivity (Part 1/3)
The independent MDU connectivity segment grew up fragmented. Now, the economies of scale, the direction of capital, and a strategic shift among the largest broadband operators are all pointing in...
Why Consolidation Will Reshape MDU Connectivity (Part 1/3)
The independent MDU connectivity segment grew up fragmented. Now, the economies of scale, the direction of capital, and a strategic shift among the largest broadband operators are all pointing in...
Five Takeaways from Our Webinar on Boosting Connectivity in Older MDUs
With 82% of U.S. apartment inventory in buildings over 10 years old, brownfield is not a niche: it is the multifamily market. Our latest webinar brought together Calix, Positron, and...
Five Takeaways from Our Webinar on Boosting Connectivity in Older MDUs
With 82% of U.S. apartment inventory in buildings over 10 years old, brownfield is not a niche: it is the multifamily market. Our latest webinar brought together Calix, Positron, and...
Bleeding Subscribers, Flat ARPU: The MDU Answer US Broadband Keeps Circling
A Maravedis analyst's view on the Q1 2026 reckoning for fixed broadband, and why the economics of multifamily are quietly becoming the most interesting line in the deck. Q1 2026...
Bleeding Subscribers, Flat ARPU: The MDU Answer US Broadband Keeps Circling
A Maravedis analyst's view on the Q1 2026 reckoning for fixed broadband, and why the economics of multifamily are quietly becoming the most interesting line in the deck. Q1 2026...
What to Expect at Cisco Live US 2026
At Cisco Live US 2026, Cisco is betting big on the agentic network, unifying networking, security, and observability under Cisco Cloud Control, with AI agents, Live Protect security, a converged...
What to Expect at Cisco Live US 2026
At Cisco Live US 2026, Cisco is betting big on the agentic network, unifying networking, security, and observability under Cisco Cloud Control, with AI agents, Live Protect security, a converged...
Wi-Fi 7 in Multifamily: What the Technology Actually Delivers
Wi-Fi 7 delivers three outcomes multifamily residents actually care about: consistent connections in dense buildings, responsive low-latency performance for cloud gaming and video calls, and invisible capacity for households running...
Wi-Fi 7 in Multifamily: What the Technology Actually Delivers
Wi-Fi 7 delivers three outcomes multifamily residents actually care about: consistent connections in dense buildings, responsive low-latency performance for cloud gaming and video calls, and invisible capacity for households running...
Brownfield Reality: Why Resident Experience Begins Inside the Walls
82% of U.S. rental apartments are in buildings more than 10 years old, legacy stock that predates modern managed Wi-Fi design. Delivering a great resident experience in these buildings is...
Brownfield Reality: Why Resident Experience Begins Inside the Walls
82% of U.S. rental apartments are in buildings more than 10 years old, legacy stock that predates modern managed Wi-Fi design. Delivering a great resident experience in these buildings is...
Extreme Connect: 30 Years in the Making, One Platform to Run It All
This blog shares my key takeaways from Extreme Connect 2026, Extreme Networks' annual customer and partner event held in Orlando. It is all about AI these days, and networking events...
Extreme Connect: 30 Years in the Making, One Platform to Run It All
This blog shares my key takeaways from Extreme Connect 2026, Extreme Networks' annual customer and partner event held in Orlando. It is all about AI these days, and networking events...
SMB Wi-Fi in 2026: A Dominant Vendor, a Frustrated Channel
Initial findings from the upcoming report Small Business Wi-Fi: The MSP Networking & Security Requirements Wi-Fi has become the most consequential piece of small-business technology infrastructure. Point-of-sale, voice, security cameras,...
SMB Wi-Fi in 2026: A Dominant Vendor, a Frustrated Channel
Initial findings from the upcoming report Small Business Wi-Fi: The MSP Networking & Security Requirements Wi-Fi has become the most consequential piece of small-business technology infrastructure. Point-of-sale, voice, security cameras,...
Scale Versus Service: Why the Top 10 US Broadband Operators Don't Own the MDU Market
The Q4 2025 broadband leaderboard makes clear who owns the pipes to America's apartment buildings but not who controls connectivity inside them. The top national operators lead on subscriber count,...
Scale Versus Service: Why the Top 10 US Broadband Operators Don't Own the MDU Market
The Q4 2025 broadband leaderboard makes clear who owns the pipes to America's apartment buildings but not who controls connectivity inside them. The top national operators lead on subscriber count,...
How Managed Wi-Fi Is Reshaping BTR and Master-Planned Communities
Build-to-rent and master-planned communities are emerging as the next frontier for managed Wi-Fi, and they operate by rules that apartment-centric playbooks don't cover. BTR runs like a horizontal apartment building...
How Managed Wi-Fi Is Reshaping BTR and Master-Planned Communities
Build-to-rent and master-planned communities are emerging as the next frontier for managed Wi-Fi, and they operate by rules that apartment-centric playbooks don't cover. BTR runs like a horizontal apartment building...