Parallel Reality Architecture – the evolultion of LCMI for Wi-Fi Design This is s a follow-up to my previous post about why the LCMI-based design for Wi-Fi is no longer applicable for modern Wi-Fi design. I suggest the concepts outlined in Parallel Reality Architecture (PRA) is the path forward. While not as simple and clearn…
Stop Designing Wi-Fi for Your Weakest Device Your most important devices are suffering from it. There’s a design philosophy that has governed enterprise wireless networking for nearly two decades. It goes by the acronym LCMI — Least Capable, Most Important. The premise is straightforward: find the weakest Wi-Fi device your business cannot afford to lose —…
2026 predictions for major Wi-Fi market shifts As we approach the final days of 2025 and anticipate the start of 2026, several shifts in Wi-Fi playbooks are expected to impact planning, design, and implementation. Slàinte!
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…
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…
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…
