The Wi-Fi Colour Wheel: A Simple Framework for Better Real-World WLANs Most people experience Wi-Fi in one of two states: That second state is where modern Wi-Fi planning often goes wrong—not because the technology is weak, but because the design and expectations are misaligned. The Wi-Fi Colour Wheel is a helpful way to explain why. It reminds…
Strike a balance between Wi-Fi Performance vs the Cost Here’s a spicy take for your Friday feed: maybe “better Wi-Fi” isn’t always better business. We love squeezing out the last few percentage points of performance. It’s fun, technical, and it looks fantastic in a heatmap. But if that 4% bump demands triple the hardware and…
Stop Guessing—Start Reading: A Practical Guide to Getting (and Using) the IEEE 802.11 Standard If you design, build, test, or troubleshoot Wi-Fi, there’s one resource that quietly answers more questions than any blog post, webinar, or vendor deck: the IEEE 802.11 standard itself. Here’s the good news that most people miss: many Wi-Fi standards are available…
Wi-Fi Generation Naming It’s worth addressing a growing trend where people, organizations, and manufacturers are misaligning IEEE Wireless LAN Standards (802.11) with Wi-Fi generation numbers. While this may stem from a noble intention to clarify the naming convention, it ultimately causes widespread confusion. By accurately mapping these standards to their corresponding Wi-Fi generations, we can…
WLPC EU 2023 Prague Conference Recap Before the main WLPC conference officially starts, boot camps run for 3 days; they are a different animal. What would typically be a 4-day course is packed into 3 days of learning. It really is drinking from the firehose. The following boot camps ran in 2023 with an interesting…
Ventev Presents at #MFD10 Ventev had the benefit of presenting last at #MFD10 to share what they have been working on lately. They wasted no time jumping right into it with the VenGo Mobile Wireless Case. The VenGoTM is a crash kit travel case sized to fit in airplane overhead bins. Equipped with one or…
Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) Highlights Wi-Fi 7 is slated to be the next release of the Wi-Fi standard from the IEEE final WG approval scheduled for May 2024, Also known as 802.11be – Extremely High Throughput (EHT), Wi-Fi 7describes tri-band operation across all three Wi-Fi bands – 2.4, 5, and 6GHz. To live up to the title…
New Cisco Meraki MREye for Wi-Fi performance Monitoring During Mobility Field Day 9, Cisco offered a sneak peek into a new feature called “MREye” to be released soonish – in the second half of 2023 (2H23). A quick grounding to understand “marketing dates”: whenever a vendor offers a delivery date of 2H23, for example, customers hear…
Wi-Fi 7 – Wait is shorter than you think There is a saying that accurately captures fluff in statistical marketing: “80% of all statistics are made up on the spot, 2/3rds of all people know that.” To satisfy the consumption driven capitalistic mantra Sell Something Now, vendors are quick to provide dates and timelines carefully selected to seduce buyers into making purchases today instead of using…
Cisco’s Take on Real-World 6GHz Performance Cisco recently participated in Mobility Field Day 7, hosted by Tech Field Day. Cisco presented on several topics, including: RF Innovation and Access Point Hardware Update 6 GHz Planning and Mobility Innovations Update Smart Buildings with Cisco DNA Spaces Private 5G Integrated with Enterprise Networks While several items Cisco presented on caught…
