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Miercom Proves: Cisco versus Huawei is No Contest
Miercom—a nonpartisan testing lab—recently published an analysis on Cisco’s Digital Network Architecture & Huawei’s Agile Solution. The report consisted of wired as well as wireless test cases. We’ll take a deeper look at wireless performance tests in the report and in the coming days and week…
Check Out the Cisco Flexible Radio Assignment Whitepaper!
The No Strings Attached Show has published a whitepaper on Cisco Flexible Radio Assignment (FRA). FRA is a feature of the Aironet 2800 and 3800 series access points. These APs have a flexible radio that can operate in 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, or monitor mode- this allows for both radios on the AP to be con…
The Nitty-Gritty of Cisco Hyperlocation
Have you ever wondered about Cisco Hyperlocation? Want to know how it works? Well, then you should check out the write up from the No Strings Attached Show. We invited the hosts of the show, Blake Krone and Samuel Clements to our Over the Air Test Facility for a deep dive into Cisco Hyperlocation…
Miercom Report: Out in Front with Wave 2
In case you haven’t heard, 802.11ac Wave 2 is here. We’ve been shipping our first 802.11ac Wave 2 access points, the Aironet 1850 and 1830 since the the middle of 2015 and the list of 802.11ac Wave 2 client devices is growing almost daily. The most important enhancement to 802.11ac Wave 2 is multi-u…
Miercom Report: High Availability and Real-time Applications
The transition to 802.11ac has been swift. Two months ago, Cisco announced crossing 1 million units sold for 802.11ac. It’s a testament to just how pervasive Wi-Fi has become. These days, Wi-Fi needs to always be available, and it needs to be quick, no matter the mix of applications on the networ…
White Paper: RX-SOP 101
Just released yesterday: Cisco Wireless Release 8.0 includes a feature called Receiver Start of Packet (RX-SOP), which you can think of as putting earmuffs on the access point. It’s not a new feature, as it has been used in stadiums and other high density deployments to great success for several ye…
How Does a Cisco Aironet AP2700 Perform Under Stress?
There’s been some speculation about the performance of the AP2700–just how good could our latest AP fly under stress? We were talking with Blake Krone and Sam Clements from the No Strings Attached Show, where they produce independent discussion and commentary on a variety of wireless equ…
Wi-Fi Roaming 101
Wi-Fi roaming is often a tumultuous subject. The crux of the issue is, with Wi-Fi the roaming decision is left to the client. In the recent years, there have been great strides in improving Wi-Fi roaming with the creation of standards-based roaming technologies. Cisco first pioneered fast roaming…
HDX Blog Series #2: Scaling with Turbo Performance
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a four-part deep dive series into High Density Experience (HDX), Cisco’s latest solution suite designed for high density environments and next-generation wireless technologies. For more on Cisco HDX, visit www.cisco.com/go/80211ac. Read part 1 here. With any ne…