Hello Las Vegas! Aruba Airheads is about to begin!

I've gotten the scoop on who the panelists are for the Tech Field Day Roundtable discussion on Thursday, and it looks to be an interesting group of people!

David Morton, Director of Mobile Communications Strategies, University of Washington
Randy Monroe, Associate Director of Network Services, Carnegie Mellon University
Ryan Holland, Associate Director of Network Operations, OSU Fisher College

Wi-Fi Mobility Symposium – Live January 25th 2012!

'anticipation' - photo by SFoskett

Coming very soon is an event unlike any other webinar, presentation or end-user conference you've ever attended. The first ever Wi-Fi Symposium will be held January 25th in San Jose, CA.

This event will bring together the industry leaders of wireless innovation to discuss the current state of Mobile Devices & BYOD, Hotspot 2.0 and the future of Gigabit Wi-Fi

Gestalt IT - Wireless Tech Field Day #2 - a call for delegates!

If you've already put your name in to be considered as a delegate for the upcoming Wireless Tech Field Day #2, or you were a delegate at the first Wireless Tech Field Day you don't need to do anything at all.


If you're interested in becoming a delegate for the2nd Wireless Tech Field Day make sure you do put your name in the hat.


I sent out a survey just to my twitter followers hoping to pick

Day One - Wireless Tech Field Day (work in progress)

The morning started off with a great Chanalyzer Pro demonstration by the great people at MetaGeek. Ryan Woodings & Trent Cutler were awesome at explaining the ins and outs of all aspects of the MetaGeek company origins and how to customize the Chanalyzer Pro application.  I had previous experience using the ChanalyzerPro application since Ryan was kind enough to send me a Wi-Spy dBx and I tested

Gestalt IT Tech Field Day - The First Ever Wireless #TechFieldDay

In a matter of just a few days, the first ever wireless focused Gestalt IT Tech Field Day will be kicking off in San Jose.  The event is scheduled for March 17th & 18th, and all the last minute details are being finalized!


I've been making a list of questions about why things don't work a certain way, or will this ever be possible based on the questions I've been asked at customer sties.  I'm

Gestalt IT Wireless Field Day March 17-18 2011 SJC

So, you may or may not have heard that there is going to be a Wireless Field Day taking place in San Jose March 17-18th through a lot of hard work by the fine folks at Gestalt IT.  Stephen & Claire along with the help of the delegates are working to make the first Wireless Field Day simply stupendous.  There hasn't been anything like this put together before - and this is a first in many regards.

Would you be interested in a Wireless Tech Field Day?

The question has been asked: Is there enough demand to support a Wireless Tech Field Day?


I know I can count at least 15 ~ 19 wireless people on Twitter that might like to participate as  delegates, and at least 27 or so companies that could participate as event sponsors..


So, I'm throwing this survey out there to find out what companies you'd be interested in meeting with and to see how many

Tech Field Day - wrap up

Last week I took part in a unique meeting of the minds - now I freely admit that I didn't get everything that was discussed, but neither did @plankers.  He was (and is) The Lone Sysadmin, and I was the only wireless person in attendance.  I did learn a lot, and took a lot of notes.  It seems to me that large companies have a hard time dialing back the sales pitch, or the back story of how they

Photos from Tech Field Day

I've uploaded photos of this weeks' events to Picasa.  I'll scan in the Polaroids in all their glory at a later date.  The Polaroids will be uploaded to bit.ly/MyPolaroids.  I've also uploaded the lot to Flickr so they can be part of the Tech Field Day Flickr pool.

CradlePoint 3G/4G product offerings

CradlePoint has teamed with Clearwire to develop the rover 4G prepaid hotspot device (puck shaped) to work over Clearwire's 4G WiMAX network.  CradlePoint devices have the ability to do a firmware upgrade to take advantage of the 4G network speeds.

Their CBA 750 (cellular bridging adapter) has 2.4ghz built in N radio along side the 2.5ghz WiMAX radio - it is a plug and play device that can

HP working with Shell to sense the Earth's vital signs

Links to HP's wireless offerings
HP Wireless Offerings
HP Standalone Access Points
HP Coordinated Access Points (controller based)
HP Wireless Controllers

Not sure how I missed this news article about HP working with Shell to develop a million node wireless network to scan the earth to ensure that Shell's oil drilling is more successful. There is another article describing the Cense project (

Gestalt IT's Net Field Day - 4 days & counting

So the trip to SJC for the Gestalt IT's Net Field Day is really happening next week.  I've read through the final list of companies that will be presenting - and I can tell by the list that I'll be learning a lot.  I haven't been surrounded by data center/route/switch/security people since I worked at UO.  That was a long time ago..  Working at CTI doesn't really count since I didn't have the