The unconfirmed Qualcomm aspects of this post in Gizmodo aside, Firetide, whose mesh WiFi technology is second to none of what I’ve seen and used, has invaded Europe and the VoIP aspects of having FireTide in the network makes for a hot concept.
Firetide is one of those companies that makes technology that works. When I saw their debut back in 2003 @ DEMO Mobile I thought to myself these guys have the technology and lots of smarts. They continue to demonstrate that each time I read about another deployment or effort.
My view is that Firetide brings to WiFi the QoS today that is needed for VoIP to really work perfectly.