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Hello Moto…

I’ve come across Motorola a few times but primarily it is solely for their AirDefense WIPs system. It’s very rare if I come across them as a WLAN client access medium. There has been an evolution of WLAN architecture for Motorola similar to what others have gone through in their lifespan. First it was independent…

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Introducing the Sonos PLAYBAR

Sonos today announced their new component to their extensive HiFi wireless music system, the PLAYBAR. I’ve blogged a few times before about my Sonos equipment and the simplicity that comes with it. If you are not aware of Sonos head over to www.Sonos.com to learn more about it but in a nutshell it is a…

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WFD4 – New Beginnings

Where has the time gone? We are already quickly approaching the start of Wireless Field Day 4 which will kick off on Wednesday in San Jose, CA. WFD4 brings a new format to this amazing event that happens twice a year. A change to the format may allow for a slightly more relaxed pace allowing…

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Defusing the ISE Minefield One By One…

Came across an interesting issue today with Cisco ISE that I thought I would put out in a blog post. Anyone that has worked with ISE knows that if you change your timezone after initial configuration it’s like setting off an atomic bomb, the configuration is screwed. In my haste configuring my 7 nodes I…

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Cisco Buys Meraki

In case you haven’t heard yesterday some news leaked out a littler earlier than it should have via social media causing Cisco and Meraki to react and confirm that Cisco intends to buy Meraki for $1.2billion. If you have listened to me over on the NSA Show podcast you’ll know that I am a fan…

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The Road to CWNE

Having successfully passed both the Certified Wireless Technology Specialist (CWTS) and Certified Wireless Network Administrator (CWNA) my journey to Certified Wireless Network Expert (CWNE) has begun. Granted I didn’t need to take the CWTS as that is not a requirement I chose to take it given that as I was planning on having the PMs…

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Stung by a bee…

Ok so I’m a little behind on my WFD2 blog posts, been busy what can I say? One of the vendors that I was most interested in hearing from was Aerohive. If you haven’t heard of them you must be living under a rock or too heavily drinking your vendor of choice koolaid because they…

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A different kind of wireless…

What do you get when you combine skills from an RC hobbyist with a Wireless Engineer? A remotely controllable truck with video down-link. Over the past few summers I’ve been learning how to fly RC airplanes and have been fairly successful at them being able to land an RC plane on the water and fly…

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Hanging an AP: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Hopefully over the course of the next few weeks I’ll finally be able to go through all the equipment that I received from the recent Wireless Tech Field Day 2 and start putting up some posts, but in order to do so I had to first get them installed in my lab. Now most people…

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