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Top Strains On Your Wireless Network
Deploying and maintaining a fast and reliable wireless LAN is becoming increasingly important for most enterprises. The WLAN has quickly taken over wired connections as the dominant end-device...
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Cisco Meraki Adds Cloud-Managed Phone
Cisco today expanded its Meraki product line into cloud-managed communications with a desktop phone. It also extended its Meraki wireless networking and Ethernet switch lines with two new 802.11ac Wave...
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MIT WiFi Technology Promises Precise Location Tracking
Until now, indoor WiFi location technologies have relied on using at least four or five access points to determine each user’s location. With a new WiFi technology developed by MIT, it's possible to...
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Reducing WiFi Channel Interference
Wireless is a shared medium invisible to the eye. We typically find out about WLAN performance problems from end users and through testing. Two reasons for poor WiFi performance are co-channel...
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Startup Aims To Revolutionize Satellite Data Transport
The current perception of satellite technology used for data transport is far from positive. It suffers from high latency, provides little throughput, and is costly. For most network engineers, it's an...
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7 Reasons You Need 802.11ac
Do we really need 802.11ac? That's a question that my clients frequently ask me as they look into WLAN upgrades or plan new deployments. There are several benefits of the 802.11ac WiFi specification...
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WLAN Industry Consolidation Pros And Cons
Aruba bought by HP, Meru by Fortinet, and now Brocade acquiring Ruckus: Industry consolidation has taken enterprise WiFi by storm in the past year. As we look forward to the future, we need to consider...
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WiFi Design Considerations For K-12 Schools
With Wi-Fi maturing and vendors releasing new WLAN product lines, there comes a time to refresh the existing WiFi network. For K-12 schools, WLAN upgrades can be particularly challenging. They're not...
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802.11ac Wave 2 And Stadium WiFi
High-profile deployments of pricey WLAN systems have become routine in professional sports, and several leading wireless vendors have offered stadium-specific infrastructure and applications solutions...
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How Does MU-MIMO Work?
The second wave of 802.11ac introduces multi-user, multi-in multi-out (MU-MIMO) technology to support an increasing number of WiFi devices consuming ever-increasing amounts of bandwidth. Separating the...
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How IPv6 Enables The Connected Home
Every day a new gadget hits the market, promising to connect  another aspect of home life to the Internet. These new devices range from garage door openers, thermostats and lightbulbs to home security...
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WiFi Startup Promises Fresh Approach To The WLAN
Enterprise WiFi has become as much about big, sometimes exotic feature sets as much as simply getting users connected. For every new fast access point on the market, there’s some sort of new analytics,...
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9 Tech Startups Blazing New Trails This Summer
The once-staid worlds of networking and storage have become hotbeds for innovation as software takes a bigger role in enterprise infrastructure. With a number of startups leading the charge,...
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A MU-MIMO Reality Check
In my last blog, I provided a high-level technical overview of how multi-user multi-in multi-out (MU-MIMO) technology works. Introduced in 802.11ac Wave 2, MU-MIMO promises greater client density for...
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WiFi Troubleshooting Using Wireshark
When it comes to open-source tools for network engineers, a top choice is Wireshark, created in 1997 by Gerald Combs, who needed a tool to track network problems. Originally named Ethereal, the network...
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Linksys Brings 802.11ac Wave 2 To SMB
This year has brought a slew of 802.11ac Wave 2 access points, all touting the promise of greater WLAN client density with Wave 2's multi-user MIMO technology. This week, Linksys joined the crowd, but...
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How 802.11ac Wave 2 Complicates WiFi Troubleshooting
For all intents and purposes, 802.11ac has been a great success. Since its approval by the IEEE nearly two years ago, the WiFi standard has introduced thousands of compatible routers, laptops, mobile...
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WiFi Design Considerations For K-12 Schools
With Wi-Fi maturing and vendors releasing new WLAN product lines, there comes a time to refresh the existing WiFi network. For K-12 schools, WLAN upgrades can be particularly challenging. They're not...
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802.11ac Wave 2 And Stadium WiFi
High-profile deployments of pricey WLAN systems have become routine in professional sports, and several leading wireless vendors have offered stadium-specific infrastructure and applications solutions...
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How Does MU-MIMO Work?
The second wave of 802.11ac introduces multi-user, multi-in multi-out (MU-MIMO) technology to support an increasing number of WiFi devices consuming ever-increasing amounts of bandwidth. Separating the...
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