Wireless and Mobility

Pop quiz: Imagine you’re at San Francisco airport and you want to get on Wi-Fi to download a movie before your flight. You have the following choices: A) Free Airport Wi-Fi B) Airport Wi-Fi SFO C) AirNet SFO D) You can’t fool me, I’ll just stay on cellular and pay for the convenience If you chose D,…

It is an exciting time in wireless networking. The two most-used wireless technologies in the world are getting an upgrade, and the changes could affect nearly every technology-using human on Earth. Wi-Fi, or local wireless, is undergoing a major advance, to Wi-Fi 6. Cellular, or mobile networking,…

Wireless networks are integral to most business’ computing infrastructures. The security on these networks needs to be planned with the utmost care. Unfortunately, we often see that the planning for air security is an afterthought. It shouldn’t be. And it’s not difficult to plan holistically for wir…

At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) show last week in Barcelona, it was interesting to see the device makers roll out mobile handsets with the latest wireless technologies: 5G and Wi-Fi 6. I’d like to focus on Wi-Fi 6 for the moment. This upgrade will provide faster speeds and more efficiency to wire…

Like 5G for mobile carrier networks, Wi-Fi 6 is the next-generation wireless standard and represents a quantum leap forward for connectivity. And as with all new standards, there were inevitable gaps that showed up in development; unforeseen challenges that can only be unearthed through trial and er…

With over 165 years in material sciences, Corning has pretty much seen it all. But when they wanted to create a wireless network that will propel them into their future, they turned to the one company that could do it right, Cisco. Corning needed a network that could support a massive amount of band…

Simplifying a complex technology is always a worthwhile process, even when it just involves a naming convention. For example, now we can stop trying to remember an alphabet soup of numbers and letters like 802.11ax and can simply say Wi-Fi 6. While the name change is welcome, it’s the innovations th…

In a digitally disrupted world full of new online experiences, there is a blind spot lurking offline in our physical spaces – data without context. While digital transformation continues to rock industries, it’s also creating mountains of data that can be the greatest source of opportunity for busin…

It’s time to shake off those holiday cobwebs and get into the spirit of 2019. With this new year, you might be thinking of upgrading your network. The good news is that Cisco has you covered with the Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers. In November, Cisco launched the most recent additions to…