Who we are
A networking company that builds its own technology rather than integrating somebody else's
Ignition Design Labs builds carrier-grade convergent Wi-Fi and 4G/5G access, together with the software that turns it into a service. Our work runs at national scale: a Tier-1 operator in East Asia with over 100 million subscribers operates one of the world's largest integrated Wi-Fi and cellular systems on our platform, with more than 400,000 access points across its Capital area network.
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, with an R&D facility in Taiwan. What follows is not a capability list — it is the patent portfolio, grouped the way we actually organise engineering.
The portfolio at a glance
Six technology areas
Connectivity, compute, intelligence — plus the security and platform layers that carry them
- Cloud-coordinated DFS — simultaneous use of multiple channels in the DFS band, directed adaptive control of dynamic channel selection, cloud super-master radar detection and over-the-air signalling of DFS parameters to clients. Granted in the US, Europe and Japan
- AI channel allocation and adaptive RF parameter control
- Wi-Fi 7 — multi-link operation, DPI-driven MLO traffic steering, and target wake time scheduling
- Mobility — roaming handover, AP neighbour tables, multi-AP 5 GHz priority access
- Airtime hygiene — broadcast storm suppression and multicast rate control
- Heterogeneous offload — 5G/Wi-Fi data splitting across heterogeneous networks, with intelligent transmission link selection
- SDN-based hierarchical WLAN networking — the architecture underneath SD-WiFi
- Cross-network addressing — IP allocation and gateway behaviour when a session spans two access networks
- Adaptive QoS, packet classification and forwarding, SDN multicast suppression
- DPI-based service discovery
- End-to-end wireless security architecture — the framing patent for everything below it
- Identity-based access — network query by identity, social-identity authentication, resource and service access control
- Rogue AP detection using a blockchain-anchored device record
- Wi-Fi 7 multi-link security — protecting a session that now spans several links at once
- PPSK and per-VLAN key distribution for multi-tenant MDU isolation, and 5G UPF security control
- Cloud AC — the Wi-Fi system architecture that moved the controller into the cloud
- Large-scale management — managing and pushing configuration to Wi-Fi estates measured in hundreds of thousands of access points
- Zero-touch provisioning and firmware/OTA control
- Cloud-side DPI — deep packet inspection performed off the device
- Cross-network billing, including a blockchain-based settlement method
- Operations tooling — device evaluation, event reporting, alarm control and automated roaming and throughput test systems
- Virtual gateways — virtual access gateway and virtual service gateway designs, and the vCPE networking method behind SD-Edge
- vCPE cloud service access — how a home or branch reaches services once its gateway lives in the edge cloud
- MDU multi-tenant network allocation
- IoT — establishing an IoT network on the access layer, and low-power IoT communication with AP-side instance management
- Anomaly detection — detection, root-cause attribution and time-aware detection, filed as a PCT international family
- LLM in operations — a large-model conversational operations interface, and constrained-LLM diagnostics that keep a model inside what the network can actually confirm
- Multimodal RAG retrieval over operational data
- AI agents — workflow anomaly detection and asynchronous dual-track agent interaction
- Video AI converged with WLAN for security sensing, and cloud-edge hybrid security operations
- Coverage-hole detection and network monitoring and diagnosis
Where the patents land
Every area maps onto something we ship
| Solution line | Supporting patents | What they cover |
|---|---|---|
| SD-WiFi | 83 | Carrier Wi-Fi offload, hyper-cellular convergence, 5G integrated access |
| General platform | 46 | NaaS cloud management, operations tooling, AIOps — shared across product lines |
| SD-Access | 44 | Campus and enterprise SD networking, dynamic segmentation, zero trust |
| SD-Edge | 12 | vBNG and vCPE, sPSK/PPSK, multi-tenant isolation for MDU and residential |
| SD-Branch | 7 | ISG intelligent gateway, SD-WAN, zero-touch provisioning, Docker application market |
A single patent frequently supports more than one solution line, so these figures overlap and do not sum to the portfolio total.
Invention, then product
A patent that never ships is a filing fee
The portfolio above is organised the way our engineering is organised, and every area has a product behind it: the DFS family runs in shipping access points, the cloud AC patents are CloudOS, the large-scale management work is NMP, the virtual gateway filings are SD-Edge, and the AIOps family is what AIOps is being built from now.
The weighting tells you where we are heading. Two-thirds of the wireless and platform patents are already granted — that is the mature part of the business. In edge computing and in AI operations, most filings are still in application, because that is where the work is happening this year.
Want the detail behind any of this?
Patent lists by area, technical white papers and architecture notes are available on request.
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