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…
HPE Aruba Networks Launches Wi-Fi 7 AP with external directional antennas for high density & manufacturing applications Today, HPE Aruba Networks launched its newest Wi-Fi 7 APs, the AP-735 and AP-734. With support for external antenna options, the AP-734 makes it easy to design and deliver great 6 GHz Wi-Fi services everywhere—particularly in high-density environments…
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…
Cisco does the “AFC Side Step” with the CW9166D1 Intentionally focusing RF propagation is a good thing but with more Wi-Fi Practitioners embracing focused antennas, there is still the reality that external antennas add to the cost and complexity of the installation. Some external antennas even cost as much as the AP itself, which can make…
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…
Aruba Atmosphere ’23 Sessions Hit List With Aruba Atmosphere 2023 kicking off next week, I wanted to share a list of the sessions that I am interested in attending or watching the recording post conference. You can find a list of all available sessions here. Sessions to Attend Here is of sessions and keynotes that I plan to…
Cisco Live 2023 Session List Here is a list of sessions that I am planning to sit on or have favourited to watch the recording (because there just isn’t enough time to get to every session). Session Bias Notice This is a self-confession that I am most excited about mobility, IoT, and Private 5G, complemented…
On the heels of WLPC Phoenix 2023 First, a few initial thoughts before jumping into sessions’ sound bites… WLPC 2023 introduced 20-min talks, giving speakers more time to go deeper into their topic and share more data. As all talks were voted on by the community, there was already a hunger to hear more about these…
