I started my journey of wireless in 1999/2000 while I was at the University of Minnesota. I was working for the help desk and running a dorm lab, just as I was starting out the Orinoco AP-1000 and Apple Airport were starting to popup in kiosks around campus but it still wasn’t anything close to…
What Is Mobility Express? Cisco recently introduced a two new AP models: the 1850 and 1830. The purpose of this article is not to discuss the exact technical specs of those two models, but I will say they are 802.11ac Wave 2 APs. What I really want to focus on is a new “controller” that…
Do you remember when you had to use a USB modem for connectivity on the go? I do. I would use them primarily when bringing new sites online as their networks were not up and running yet. But this had one major drawback, cellular service is most buildings was bad and even worse inside a…
Have you ever walked into a building on a corporate or healthcare campus and struggled to find where you needed to go? Be honest, we have all been there. But did you know that wireless can help solve that problem? I’ve been working with various location based technologies for a number of years now but…
It’s that time of the year again, Wireless Field Day is upon us this week! For #WFD8 we’ve got what looks to be an awesome lineup of sponsors to harass meet. Here’s the sponsor list, some should be familiar, some maybe not so much? I can tell you right off the bat I’m REALLY excited…
Tom, aka Networking Nerd, recently made a post about Meraki not being a large enterprise solution so as a fan of the “Tenth Man Rule” I’ve decided to write about why Meraki CAN be used in a large enterprise. What defines a large enterprise network? Is it 10 infrastructure devices? 20? 30? 100? It’s hard…
Well, I had this GREAT idea and I was working on the blog post and all when I see a tweet from @lauren, she stole my idea! It’s all good, still love ya Lauren! Anyways, Cisco Live is always a fun time and a couple years ago I pulled off a pretty darn good selfie/photobomb…
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the “Personal Brand” issue that companies seem to face on a daily basis in today’s digital era. With blogging and social media a person has the ability to create a strong brand recognition for their own name on their own dime and time. We blog because we want…
Today is Apple’s “Spring Forward” event and we all assume that means we will finally get the last details of the Apple Watch as well as the prices. When Apple first announced the Apple Watch I was really intrigued and figured for sure I would run out and get one. Now as the months have…
It’s a dirty job but somebody’s gotta do it! This years keynote speaker is the ever so awesome Mike Rowe who has shown us there’s a million jobs out there that nobody wants to do, but somebody does it for us. If you’ve never heard Mike talk about his thoughts on working and earning a…