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…
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…
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…