I am excited to share that I now work for Cisco! I am not yet sure how (or if) this will affect the content of my blog in the future. However, it is important for me to clarify that all things written prior to this post were written from the perspective of a non-Cisco employee
Cisco Catalyst CW916x Access Points – The Choice is Yours
The Cisco Catalyst CW9166, CW9164 and CW9162 Wi-Fi 6E Access Points feature the ability to be managed either in the Meraki cloud, or with a Catalyst 9800 Wireless LAN Controller. Many of us have wanted this feature for a decade! Each of the ”CW” access-points are convertible between the two modes, which allows you to
Quick Start Guide to Cisco Live
Planning on attending your first Cisco Live? Or are you a Cisco Live veteran, but perhaps feeling a bit out of practice after the 2-year break from in-person events? Akin to my Cisco Live Survival Guide post, I hope this guide helps streamline the process leading up to Cisco Live. If you are looking for
Aruba’s Self-Locating AP Technology is Truly Remarkable
At Aruba Atmosphere 22, Aruba announced their new Self-Locating AP technology. Using an integrated GPS receiver on the 6xx series Access Points, the APs can locate themselves and and automatically be positioned on a floor plan. I was very skeptical when I first heard about this technology. I thought, how is a GPS going to
Digging out of the COVID “rut” by attending in-person tech conferences
This post is going to be a bit different from my regular stuff. You won’t learn anything technical here, but I hope you will still find value in what I have to say. Last week I attended the Wireless LAN Professionals Conference (WLPC) in Phoenix, AZ. I’ve attended this conference many times in the past,
The Cisco Catalyst 9136 Access Point
The Catalyst 9136 is Cisco’s latest addition to the Catalyst 9100 AP line up, and is their first AP with Wi-Fi 6E (6GHz) capability. This is the big brother to the 9130, in pretty much every way. The Cisco Champions program allowed me to test the 9136, and I was pleasantly surprised when I first
NetAlly EtherScope nXG Review
I was recently able to get my hands on a netAlly EtherScope nXG for evaluation. I’ve been wanting to check out one of them since I saw its release at #MFD4. I’d like to share my impressions of it from the perspective of a wireless guy with an old school background in wired infrastructure and
De-Mist-ifying Contact Tracing – #MFD5
Contact tracing is all the rage right now. Many organizations are being tasked with reducing the risk of returning to the campus/workplace. Wouldn’t it be nice if your Wi-Fi network could provide data to help increase the safety of your guests? Mist’s Proximity Tracing is one of very few solutions I’ve seen that may actually
Introducing the Cisco Catalyst 9105 Access Point #MFD5
Cisco Presented at Mobility Field Day 5, where they broke the news about the Catalyst 9105 Access Point. This might just be the “cutest” Access Point I’ve ever seen, and certainly one of the smallest and lightest Access Points Cisco has produced in a very long time. It fits into the low-end of the Catalyst
Viewing Network Telemetry from the Catalyst 9800 with Grafana
In this guide, I’m going to cover the process of creating a Linux server to visualize a lot of the network telemetry (statistics) that the Cisco Catalyst 9800 offers. Network telemetry can include client statistics, access-point statistics, network statistics and controller statistics. All of these tools are open source, and free for personal use. The