Aruba Networks at Wireless Field Day 2

Aruba was the first presenter for the second day of  Wireless Field Day 2. We were welcomed to their Executive Briefing Center by Ozer Dondurmacioglu, Product Marketing Manager for Aruba, then they kicked off their presentation with  Keerti Melkote  (founder of Aruba Networks, now the Chief Strategy Officer) outlining their approach to BYOD. He defined it as a security model for personal devices

Meraki at Wireless Field Day 2

Meraki presented their wireless solution managed by Cloud Controllers hosted at Meraki's HQ at Wireless Field Day 2.

Meraki APs are a good solution for a diverged enterprise where there are many remote locations without IT staff. The APs "call home" to the Cloud Controller hosting at Meraki. End users can opt-in to allowing Meraki to aggregate date usage information on the wireless traffic

Ekahau at Wireless Field Day 2

Ekahau was the third presenter at Wireless Field Day 2

Ekahau's site survey software was born out of the RTLS calibration required in order to do site surveys back in  2001-2002. The point of their survey software is to continuing monitoring from the client perspective at the client level.
Ekahau Site Survey Pro (includes Planner and Troubleshooting) is an indoor focused site survey tool,

MetaGeek at Wireless Field Day 2 - Eye P.A.

MetaGeek was a return presenter at Wireless Field Day 2, and presented us with their new application Eye P.A. Eye P.A. is a completely new way of visualizing data captured in a WinPcap file.

 


Trent Cutler of MetaGeek demonstrates Wi-Spy at WFD2 from Stephen Foskett on Vimeo.

Some of the intuitive visualizations in Eye P.A are:
Flashlight on hover - highlights the data type you've

Aerohive at Wireless Field Day 2

Aerohive was first to kick off Wireless Field Day 2, and we were first treated to a presentation by Matthew Gast Director of Product Management and author of 802.11: Networks the Definitive Guide and 802.11n: A Survival Guide.



Aerohive at WFD2 Part 1: Devin Akin, Matthew Gast, Founders from Stephen Foskett on Vimeo.

Matthew Gast did an incredible deep dive into the trouble with CCMP, Galois

Wi-Fi Mobility Symposium - a recap

Andrew vonNagy and Marcus Burton
Today I attended the first Wi-Fi Mobility Symposium. The event was a gathering of panelists from key Wi-Fi companies and it was moderated by Andrew vonNagy (Revolution Wi-Fi), Marcus Burton (CWNP) and Stephen Foskett (Pack Rat). During this event, the attendees, panelists and moderators discussed the current state of Mobile Devices & BYOD, Hotspot 2.0 and the

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

Wireless Field Day II

I'm very excited to inform you (if you haven't already heard) of the second Wireless Field Day that'll be taking place in San Jose on January 25th - 27th 2012. Assuming that the Mayans are wrong, we will be gathering in San Jose to hear presentation from a great group of wireless companies.

The majority of my career I've been focused on Cisco's wireless hardware line, so I'm looking forward to