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...
Mounting APs in temporary networks
We’ve always faced challenges when it comes to mounting APs for temporary Wi-Fi networks. In this post we'll show you how we solved that issue.
Good WLAN is now priceless, not pricey!
A year ago, we at Aruba were shocked to see the pricing presented to a customer by a service provider for WLAN infrastructure across the customer’s retail stores. The quotation showed an installation...
The Evolution of WLAN Architecture
Which is bigger - the sum of parts or the whole?
Max Performance and Resilience in the Age of BYOD
The Aruba Technical Marketing team is constantly testing and proving (or disproving) a number of hypotheses in our Sunnyvale PoC Lab test environment. I think we are all aware by now (and if you aren't...
Wi-Fi Certified Passpoint and WBA’s Next-Generation Hotspot
The WFA recently announced the "Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Passpoint certification program for network infrastructure solutions and mobile devices, based on the Hotspot 2.0 specification.
HD Video over Wi-Fi – Aruba Debunks Cisco ClientLink 2.0, 4×4 MIMO, and Video Performance
Today I am putting the issue of Cisco’s superior AP technology (ClientLink 2.0, 4x4 MIM) and video density performance vs. Aruba to rest once and for all. Unlike Cisco, we have not paid for an “independent...
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...
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...
Hotspot deployments: Part II – Interference mitigation guidelines
INTERFERENCE MITIGATION GUIDELINES ArubaOS includes many functions for automatic mitigation of Wi-Fi and non-Wi-Fi interference in hotspot environments. Below is a summary of our recommendations for ways...
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