There have been three waves of Wi-Fi if you will. Fat APs were the first wave of Wi-FI, these were the Aironet and Symbol APs back in the day. Then came along the controller architecture with Airespace for example. Most vendors these days have a controller based solution like Cisco, Aruba, Motorola, etc. The third and…
Ahh, Aerohive, the company with the little worker bees all over the world! Aerohive is a great company that builds an easily deploy-able network taking into consideration other aspects of networking: the user. Their products are web based and cloud based allowing for more streamlined approach at upgrades and maintenance that some verticals such as…
Our first presenter at Wireless Field Day 5 was Fluke Networks. Fluke Networks purchased AirMagnet 4 years ago and has continued to develop the AirMagnet product line. They focus on three primary customers: [list_3] Enterprise – hardware and software for net diagnostics, analysis, monitoring and reporting of network and application performance for both wired and…
It’s time again for another round of Wireless Field Day and once again I was fortunate enough to be invited! One of the greatest aspects of the Tech Field Day events is the ability to hear from vendors that I don’t always have exposure to and hearing their side of the story. Historically in the…
Information Technology is an interesting market, I’ve seen a lot of different setups from where people would be Jack of All Trades Master of None to the full silo where you only know one thing, and one thing alone. When I entered the professional services market you focused on a track if you will that…
Last year was the year of BYOD when it came to buzzwords. Everyone was hopping on the bandwagon and using that term like crazy. The funny thing is that it really wasn’t anything new! Having worked in the higher ed space at the beginning of my career I’ve always had to deal with people bringing…
Meraki is one of those wireless companies that the more you learn about them the more you like what they are doing. They are a quick, agile, and nimble young company that is now owned by Cisco and is known as the Cloud Networking Group. I’ve had experience using their wireless, security, switching, and mobile…
I’m sure by now most have seen this story from various sources where the girl’s pregnancy was figured out by Target using analytic data before her dad knew. Now we are starting to see a trend with wireless where we can get location analytics that allows stores and venue operators to understand traffic flow, dwell…
There’s a common theme going on here lately in the wireless industry. All of a sudden there is this huge push for quality management tools. We’ve heard about it from many different vendors and one vendor has an interesting play: a partially vendor agnostic solution. With Aruba’s AirWave product you are monitoring the health of…
Juniper has been an interesting company to follow since their acquisition of the Trapeze product line. It’s not common for me to see them in my visits to customer sites. I think I’ve only seen a Trapeze once in the wild at a University. We’ve all been wondering what they were up to with the…