I’m going to echo the position of Marcus Burton, Lee Badman, and Andrew von Nagy. Despite the marketing push, there really is no need for > 1 Gbps link to a 802.11ac Wave 2 AP. Not at the access layer at least. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dVMs5_Kgew This Wi-Fi gauge goes up to 6.8 Gbps, so that means we need a 10Continue reading “WLAN Vendors: The NBASE-T Ball is in Your Court”
Category Archives: WLAN
Channel Planning isn’t Easy for Algorithms
If you’ve ever had to create a manual channel plan where spectrum is scarce, you know how hard it is to get it right. You run out of virgin spectrum, then the difficult choice of channel reuse is encountered. Often, what looks acceptable on an architectural plan, doesn’t hold up to post-deployment validation. Two AP’sContinue reading “Channel Planning isn’t Easy for Algorithms”
eduroam – Secure, Automatic Roaming Between WLAN’s
eduroam (education roaming) is the secure worldwide federated network access service developed for the international research and education community. I’ve been really intrigued by the WLAN phenomenon eduroam which has swept across much of Europe and is being deployed in many US universities this academic year. This is a secure WLAN roaming technology, but itContinue reading “eduroam – Secure, Automatic Roaming Between WLAN’s”
Frame by Frame 