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In Part 2 of the Aerohive SKO 2012 pair of blogs (see also Beach Olympics), we focus on the PEOPLE. You won’t see all the awesome people who make up the Hive, just some really great shots of some really great people. Enjoy.Smiles and great energy all around. The original Queen Bee.  Focusing on the...

Bonjour services are very useful for finding and connecting to local services on the network, like Apple TV’s (via AirPlay), printers (via AirPrint), file sharing (via AFP), remote audio (via AirTunes), etc. And using Aerohive’s Free Bonjour Gateway or Bonjour Gateway within one of our...

Part 3 of 3 iPad 3 Wi-Fi Performance Analysis – Throughput Analysis (Graphical CDF Statistics) In the previous two posts –   iPad 3 Wi-Fi Reception Analysis – Transmit Power  and iPad 3 Wi-Fi Performance Analysis – Throughput – we talked about the differences in power and throughput between iPad...

Part 2 of 3: iPad 3 Wi-Fi Performance Analysis – Throughput Analysis (Simple Statistics) In the previous post, iPad 3 Wi-Fi Reception Analysis – Transmit Power, we discussed the raw Tx power between iPads and various other devices. In those results it looked like the iPad 1 trumped the iPad 2,...

This is a series of three posts – all concerning the variation and consistency of various Apple iPad models with respect to Wi-Fi Performance.In this first post, we’ll be focusing on just the output transmit power of the different devices. This is important because for accurate and consistent data...

I’m not usually prone to hyperbole, but I absolutely think it goes without saying all the tremendous announcements from Apple this week have them focused on great product execution (a forte of the new CEO Tim Cook) with an eye clearly toward the enterprise and education market domination. Without...

Well, it’s here … Apple’s iPad 3 was announced today! If your organization is anything like mine, swept up in Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and the consumerization of IT, you’ll be seeing those beautiful devices land on your Wi-Fi network faster than Devin can say “controller-less” But with these...

I said it in another article, but it’s worth repeating: Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and the consumerization of IT may be overused as market terms but they are unquestionably a trend that is changing network architectures in almost every enterprise. In a recent survey by Dimensional Research of 750 front-...

Last Thursday, the second draft of 802.11ac went out for what’s called a letter ballot. (I think the term “letter ballot” is an anachronism from back when ballots were actually mailed, with stamps!) To submit the draft to letter ballot, all the comments from the draft 1.0 ballot had to be resolved.Ju...

Many developers have tried to address the needs of network admins – some have developed individual apps focused on a single function. Others have tried to build groups of functions in a single app. These are useful reference apps – those things IT admins might want to have readily available. Many of...