{"url":"https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-10-22/aura-wireless-apogee-360-mobile-breakthrough-award","markdown_url":"https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-10-22/aura-wireless-apogee-360-mobile-breakthrough-award.md","title":"Aura Wireless Apogee 360 Wins 2026 Enterprise Wi-Fi Award","headline":"Aura Wireless Apogee 360 Named Overall Enterprise Wi-Fi Product of the Year in 2026 Mobile Breakthrough Awards","description":"Aura Wireless's Apogee 360 won Overall Enterprise Wi-Fi Product of the Year in the 2026 Mobile Breakthrough Awards, covering up to 20 acres per unit.","section":"Business","published_at":"2026-10-22T16:57:23+00:00","modified_at":"2026-10-22T16:57:23+00:00","author":"News Desk","key_takeaways":["Aura Wireless's Apogee 360 was named Overall Enterprise Wi-Fi Product of the Year in the 10th annual Mobile Breakthrough Awards.","Each Apogee 360 panel covers up to 20 acres using existing access points, and the company says the design uses up to 90% less infrastructure than a conventional build.","A Fortune 500 retailer standardized on a two-to-three-unit Apogee 360 design across more than 1,000 outdoor locations."],"companies":[{"name":"Aura Wireless","is_primary":true,"profile_url":"https://akta.pro/company-profiles/000fl8y/aura-wireless","website":"https://aurawireless.com"}],"source":{"publisher":"EIN Presswire","title":"Aura Wireless Apogee 360 Named Overall Enterprise Wi-Fi Product of the Year in 2026 Mobile Breakthrough Awards","url":"https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/951388394/aura-wireless-apogee-360-named-overall-enterprise-wi-fi-product-of-the-year-in-2026-mobile-breakthrough-awards"},"other_sources":[],"tags":["Business","Aura Wireless"],"body_markdown":"[Aura Wireless](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/000fl8y/aura-wireless) said on October 22, 2026 that its Apogee 360 platform was named Overall Enterprise Wi-Fi Product of the Year in the 10th annual Mobile Breakthrough Awards. The St. Petersburg, Florida company said the patented antenna covers up to 20 acres per unit using existing access points. [EIN Presswire](https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/951388394/aura-wireless-apogee-360-named-overall-enterprise-wi-fi-product-of-the-year-in-2026-mobile-breakthrough-awards) published the announcement.\n\n## Apogee 360's Award and Field Deployments\n\nThe awards program recognizes companies, technologies and products in the global wireless and mobile market and drew thousands of nominations from more than 15 countries, according to the company. Aura Wireless designs and sells the Apogee family of patented directional antennas, using Asymmetric Gain technology to deliver large-scale Wi-Fi and CBRS coverage with up to 90% fewer access points, sold exclusively through channel partners to enterprise customers in retail, logistics, agriculture, industrial, education, municipal and entertainment verticals, according to [company records](https://akta.pro/company-data).\n\n\"Apogee 360 delivers coverage that outdoor Wi-Fi has not yet offered,\" said Steve Johansson, Managing Director at Mobile Breakthrough. \"FCC regulations cap how much power a client device can use to transmit, so a network can only reach as far as its weakest device can answer back.\"\n\nElaine Healy, Co-Founder and CEO of Aura Wireless, said the company built the technology because it did not exist. \"Apogee 360 changes that by providing up to 90% less infrastructure than a conventional design that adds an access point for every zone,\" Healy said.\n\nAura Wireless said a mile-scale intermodal rail yard went from 65 access points to 13 and was fully connected, and that one Apogee antenna delivered full coverage across a 35-acre rail checkpoint. A Fortune 500 retailer standardized on a two-to-three-unit Apogee 360 design across more than 1,000 outdoor locations, and a 250-acre farm connected its entire operation, from point-of-sale to IoT sensors to security coverage, using three units, the company said. Apogee 360 operates from -40°C to 60°C.\n\n## Aura Wireless's Retail and Integrator Record\n\nAura Wireless's standardization win with a Fortune 500 retailer covers 1,000+ locations on a 2-3 Apogee antenna architecture, anchoring a recurring multi-site deployment pipeline for large-format retail, according to akta.pro company records. The same records list 600+ retail club locations under that architecture and an 83% reduction in access point counts from Apogee antenna technology. Aura Wireless launched Apogee Converge in 2025, a software-defined phased array combining Private LTE (CBRS Band 48) with Wi-Fi 5/6 in a single 4-panel platform.\n\n## Earlier Aura Wireless Recognition and Deployments\n\nAura Wireless won the 2026 Wireless Broadband Alliance award for Best Wi-Fi Innovation for its Apogee antenna platform, EIN Presswire reported in October 2026. The platform delivers over 10 times coverage with 70-83% fewer access points and integrates with existing access points without recurring licensing fees, according to that report. In June 2026, EIN Presswire reported that Aura Wireless deployed its Apogee Converge antenna at Paso Robles Municipal Airport, creating a private 5G testbed with Cal Poly and Heddian. In May 2026, EIN Presswire reported that Aura Wireless deployed its Apogee antenna solution at Legendz Way Distribution, a 750,000-square-foot warehouse, using 4 access points and 4 antennas instead of 40-45.\n\n## Apogee 360 Product Details\n\nAura Wireless directs readers to [aurawireless.com/products/apogee-360](https://aurawireless.com) for more on the platform. Ian Watson, Vice President at Aura Wireless, said the real cost of an outdoor site is the trenching, lift rental and cable runs, and that Apogee 360 removes most of that from the job before it starts.\n","publisher":{"name":"News for Agent","url":"https://newsforagent.com"}}