Peter Thornycroft

Peter Thornycroft

Office of the CTO, Aruba
Peter Thornycroft is an engineer in the CTO’s group at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, with interests in voice-over-WLAN, location and RF technologies. He has over 20 years of industry experience with a variety of wireless, carrier and voice technologies. Prior to Aruba, Peter held senior product management and technical marketing positions with Cisco, StrataCom and Northern Telecom.

He is an active participant in the Wi-Fi Alliance and the IEEE 802.11 standards body and holds an MA in electrical sciences engineering from Cambridge University and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Posts (6)

RF hygiene for the Wi-Fi developer

If you want to get a rise from one of our Sunnyvale engineers, ask about our RF environment.  It’s challenging.  Since pretty much all of us work on Wi-Fi, and we all need our own test benches, it’s...

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Customizing Passpoint

Customizing Passpoint

Now that we are seeing the first Passpoint-capable smartphones, the implications of Wi-Fi network roaming are opening up new questions for Service Providers... Visit the Aruba stand at Mobile World Congress...

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FCC Announcement: New 5GHz spectrum for Wi-Fi

FCC Announcement: New 5GHz spectrum for Wi-Fi

You will have seen that the Chairman of the FCC, Julius Genachowski, announced yesterday (9 January 2013) that the FCC intends to open up more spectrum in the 5GHz band for Wi-Fi usage.  While it’s...

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Latest smartphones add dual-band Wi-Fi

Latest smartphones add dual-band Wi-Fi

In the enterprise WLAN world, we've been building dual-band (2.4GHz and 5GHz) networks for a while now – I'd hazard an uninformed guess that 90% or more of the APs we have shipped over the...

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Two days' battery life from the Galaxy Nexus, with only 3% due to Wi-Fi

Two days’ battery life from the Galaxy Nexus, with only 3% due to Wi-Fi

In the latest generation of smartphones, the share of battery capacity consumed by the Wi-Fi subsystem is barely significant.

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Extending enterprise UC networks over Wi-Fi and cellular networks

A few years ago we were very excited about Fixed-Mobile Convergence, integrating the corporate PBX with cellphones.  We don't hear the acronym any more - what happened to FMC?  Like many ideas in...

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