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Locations and Beacons: The On-Premise IT Roundtable 3

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On tap for today’s roundtable, the panel discusses the state of locations and beacons. Moderator Stephen Foskett asks the panel to consider how location services factor into the greater enterprise mobility landscape. This goes from using beacons to give turn-by-turn navigation indoors to using location to cue print jobs. Often the backend of these application has been available for a while, but now new use cases are emerging.

E54 – Aruba HP and CCIE Wireless v3 Update

No Strings Attached Show comments: Another Aruba Atmosphere event is in the books, this one had some big news at it regarding Aruba Networks as a company. Sam and I give our opinions on the matter and what we think it means for Aruba as well as the industry. Again this is our opinion and […]

Wireless Nerd: Responding to the Social WiFi Roundtable

Drew Lentz of Wireless Nerd writes: This is a great topic, and a great video. I am totally bummed that I was not able to join live. However, using the power of the Interwebs, I will now go back in time to respond to some of what’s being said. I love technology. This is awesome. […]

WLW051 – It’s All About the People

Keith Parsons of Wireless LAN Pros writes: In this week’s episode, our main topic is “It’s All About the People” with Devin Akin. We’ll discuss Radio Tap Headers in our tutorial, and lookup the term “Pre-shared Key” in our Geek Glossary. Finally we’ll get to know just WhoIs Blake Krone. A great podcast about the […]

AP Ladder

Blake Krone of Digital Lifestyle comments: I’ve always felt that the best way to lab and test wireless gear is in the same orientation that it’ll be installed, for most that is a little hard to do as you don’t have a drop down ceiling grid in your home. Luckily my office did have a […]

Reaching the RF Summit

Blake Krone writes on his blog about WFD5 presenter Meru Networks: Meru has an architecture called MobileFLEX. This is an all encompassing solution at each of the following layers: Access, Control, Management, Policy, and Solutions. An interesting part of this MobileFLEX is their channel usage. While they support multi-channel traditional networks they also support a […]

Visualizing the 802.11ac Wave With AirMagnet

Blake Krone writes about WFD5 presenter Fluke Networks: Surely if you have been around in networking you have probably used or at least seen a Fluke network tester for an install. Fluke creates some great hardware networking test tools for a variety of the layers. But we are here to talk about the wireless portion […]

One Console to Rule Them All

Blake Krone from Digital Lifestyle writes: As long as there has been networking equipment we have needed access into devices to configure and manage. Serial connectivity is the defacto setup method for new equipment so it’s only naturally that console servers have come to market. For example I use a Cisco 2811 at home in […]

Google Glass — The First Week

Blake Krone from Digital Lifestyle comments on Google’s new eyewear: It’s been a week since I flew to Google’s NYC offices located at Chelsea Square to pickup my Google Glass. Back in March I put out at simple tweet to enter the #ifihadglass contest that @ProjectGlass was holding to be selected as a Glass Explorer. […]