Lee Badman of wirednot writes: Motorola Wi-Fi had a good run, but nothing lasts forever. Here’s the official memo, and it’s actually a bigger Moto story than just Wi-Fi that Zebra Technologies is buying. I did have a conversation with Moto folks about the acquisition. For those who followed the Wireless Field Day sessions from […]
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Three Wireless USB Adapters in Every Hub, and Omnipeek On Every Laptop
Jennifer Huber of I ♥ WiFi writes: The demonstration of the 802.11ac capture was interesting in that copies of OmniPeek and 802.11ac adapters were gifted to the delegates in order for them to generate 802.11ac traffic in the presentation room. OmniPeek only has drivers for the Ralink chipset wireless adapters at this time, but they […]
MetaGeek Updates Chanalyzer
Lee Badman of wirednot writes: There are tools that WLAN support types tend to gravitate to en masse. When it comes to design work, the discussion gets more individualized as architects have their favorites among pricey tools; but put a bunch of WLAN folks who work in different capacities in a room together and you’ll […]
Xirrian- The Official Language of Wi-FI Experts
Lee Badman of WiredNot writes: Little did I know that as I schlepped around a simple notebook from Xirrus, I was sitting on a friggin’ Rosetta Stone, baby. For in this spiral-bound collection of pages, I recently stumbled across something that made me realize the wonder an archaeologist must feel when she finds a lost […]
I ♥ WiFi: Three Wireless USB Adapters in Every Hub, and Omnipeek On Every Laptop #WFD5
Jennifer Huber from I ♥ WiFi writes about WFD5: Jay Botelho Director of Product Management spoke next, and gave us the WildPackets technical history. First to support data capture and analysis of 802.11ac traffic The most comprehensive voice over wifi analysis Only application to support remote data capture from commercial enterprise access points Best application […]
An Outsider Looks At AirTight’s Recent Hires
Lee Badman of wirednot comments: I don’t get to the Silicon Valley very often, but I am a professional free-lance media type and I’ve been monitoring and covering goings on in the WLAN space for a lot of years. Last night I got an email regarding Steven Glapa leaving Ruckus, and heading for AirTight networks […]
Aerohive Throws Hat Into The 802.11ac Ring
Lee Badman of WiredNot writes: Ah, this crazy wireless world we live in. It’s easy to forget that 802.11ac is still not “really” a standard, although we’re getting very close. It’s also easy to get sparkly-eyed by the 11ac products available now, despite the fact that with the new standard’s promised weird and protracted […]
MU-MIMO They’re not calling you names, they’re speeding up your Wi-Fi!
Jennifer Huber of I ♥ WiFi writes: The thing I always vividly remember from an Aerohive session at Wireless Field Day, is the presentation by Matthew Gast. I love how he intertwines fun facts and figures into a slide deck AND uses matrix math to explain things that are still (somewhat) theoretical in nature. At […]
Surveying for Gigabit WiFi is no Fluke
I ♥ WiFi comments: Fluke announced their new 802.11ac site survey capabilities with the latest version of AirMagnet Survey PRO at Wireless Field Day 5. According to AirMagnet, the client cards they used to do the testing (Edimax & Trendnet) showed vast differences between the adapters, but there was no repeatable reason for why the […]
Slow And Steady Wins Nothing
Dan Cybulskie from Simply WiFi writes: When it comes to the business of mobility, turtles are big, slow, unsexy and destined for last place. It’s been over a month since I attended Wireless Field Day 5, and my brain has been happily digesting every session. When it comes to the Motorola sessions, this blog post […]