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Locations and Beacons: The On-Premise IT Roundtable 3

May 4, 2017 by Rich Stroffolino Leave a Comment

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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.

Ruckus and the MU-MIMO demo at #WFD8

October 9, 2015 by Tom Hollingsworth Leave a Comment

Keith Parsons of Wireless LAN Professionals comments: I’ve just got to take my hat off to the team at Ruckus Wireless for their successful, yet gutsy move, to do a live demonstration in front of the #WFD8 delegates and on live broadcast streaming video of a MU-MIMO demonstration. This ranks right up there with Cisco […]

5GHz Channel Allocations – WLAN Pro Resource Tool

August 27, 2015 by Stephen Foskett Leave a Comment

Keith Parsons of Wireless LAN Professionals comments: About 5GHz channel allocations… “Wireless on 5GHz isn’t new, so you may be wondering why DFS is suddenly becoming an issue. The new challenge stems from one of the mechanisms that enables 802.11ac’s faster speeds: its broader channel widths. Earlier Wi-Fi standards used 20 MHz- and 40 MHz-wide channels. […]

Geek Dictionary: Basic Service Set or BSS

August 6, 2015 by Tom Hollingsworth Leave a Comment

Keith Parsons of Wireless LAN Professionals comments: What is Basic Service Set or BSS? It’s the footprint of a single access point and all stations associated with it. Defined by all stations who associate with single access point. And in every frame they send they will acknowledge this fact by sending the BSSID or the […]

Multi-User MIMO — Marketing Hype vs Reality

August 14, 2014 by Stephen Foskett Leave a Comment

Keith Parsons of WLAN Pros writes: During the presentation at #WFD7 from Matt Silverman, Technical Leader from Cisco on an Overview from MIMO technology, I started to think about the net effects this might cause our Wireless LANs in the future as 802.11ac Wave 2 in on the horizon for next year. Though I, like […]

Quotes from K-12 Building Architects vs WLAN Vendors

August 13, 2014 by Tom Hollingsworth Leave a Comment

Keith Parsons of WLAN Pros writes: Over my travels and meetings with a variety of school districts all across this country, and even some in other countries… I’ve tried to act more like an Architect, than a Value Added Reseller. There is a different point of view and wider scope when you think more like […]

Wireless Nerd: Responding to the Social WiFi Roundtable

August 11, 2014 by Stephen Foskett Leave a Comment

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. […]

Public Wi-Fi — Fast, Free and Easy — Part 3

April 18, 2014 by Tom Hollingsworth Leave a Comment

Keith Parsons of Wireless LAN Professionals comments: This final description of good public Wi-Fi is another one with lots of controversy. First a caveat, if you live in a country which has some crazy law which forces a solution other than this easy one — obviously you’ll need to follow the laws of your country. […]

Public Wi-Fi — Fast, Free and Easy — Part 1

April 15, 2014 by Tom Hollingsworth Leave a Comment

Keith Parsons of Wireless LAN Professionals comments: Many in the WLAN industry who like to sell solutions to their customers might find the attitudes reflected in these posts as counter to them making more money. But the reasons for this series is to make folks think. Think about how you PERSONALLY would like to access […]