New K-12 Models Go Mobile

New K-12 Models Go Mobile

What happens if you're a K-12 educator and your wired devices can't support your new teaching model? At the Oyster River Cooperative School District in Durham, New Hampshire, you simply go mobile.  

The IT Desk Formula for Microsoft Lync

The IT Desk Formula for Microsoft Lync

People prefer making calls on cell phones. You may also be surprised to learn that water is wet and the Pope is Catholic. When I ditched my house phone about eight years ago, it was because it rarely rang...

Five new Wi-Fi technologies that mimic self-driving cars

Five new Wi-Fi technologies that mimic self-driving cars

Living in the Bay Area, it's not unusual to see Google's autonomous cars humming along on the commute to work.  Personally, I cringe at the thought of turning the wheel over to a robot. I'm even holding...

Budget to Build the Wi-Fi Network of Your Dreams

Budget to Build the Wi-Fi Network of Your Dreams

My Wi-Fi network at work is a lot like flavor in my food. I don’t enjoy working without solid Wi-Fi just like I don’t enjoy my food without flavor. If I had the means, I would personally fund my workplace...

Top Ten Considerations for Deploying Lync on Smartphones and Tablets

Top Ten Considerations for Deploying Lync on Smartphones and Tablets

Microsoft Lync isn’t just changing the way we build telephony systems in the enterprise, it’s also transforming the user experience, where every communicati …

Note to Parents: Little Aruba Plays Well With Others

Note to Parents: Little Aruba Plays Well With Others

The Airheads Conference is almost here and it's time get your thinking caps on. Okay, it is actually time for me to get my thinking cap on. I say that because, in my experience, the conference is packed with a ton of smart people and I want to sponge as much information and knowledge as I possibly can....

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...

My Office Desk: Unplugged But Well-Connected

My Office Desk: Unplugged But Well-Connected

Interested in unplugging your desk phone and creating an all wireless office. Here's how I did it using Microsoft Lync.

Where will Wi-Fi show up next?

Where will Wi-Fi show up next?

You expect Wi-Fi at work and now you see it in stores, on home security and games consoles, and even on your flights!  The question is, where will it show up next?

The Road to the All-Wireless Office

The Road to the All-Wireless Office

Its been quite a decade for wireless, but as the saying goes - the best is yet to come!  As the founder of Aruba Networks, here is my experience on what has changed, tracking the evolution of enterprise...