Networking Luminaries Series

      Intro by Joel Vincent, Aerohive Director of Product Marketing   The Bloggers   Bradley Chambers (user), Director of Information Technology at Brainerd Baptist School Bradley Chambers has been the Director of Information Technology at Brainerd Baptist School since 2009. At BBS, he manages an Apple...

  Aerohive guest blogger: Bradley Chambers, Brainerd Baptist School A few months ago, I went into a popular national chain and this is what my connection on their “free Wi-Fi” resulted in (see pic).  If you happen to not be a LAN person, the 169 IP Address means that I didn't receive an address from...

Aerohive guest blogger: Bradley Chambers, Brainerd Baptist School I've been around a lot of IT folks in my life and they are generally a unique breed of people. They seem to collaborate with their counterparts at their competition. IT folks see themselves as a nucleus working together. You see this...

By Lisa Phifer, Core Competence Inc. Must traffic flow through a single policy enforcement point to assert centrally-defined security policies? Of course the answer is “no” – as demonstrated by many distributed security systems, from desktop anti-virus to wireless IPS. But this flawed thinking may...

 By Craig J. Mathias, Principal with the Farpoint GroupWhile BYOD is, and with good reason, all the rage today, it is also one of the most misunderstood concepts in IT. There’s broad-based confusion, we’ve found, with other emerging facilities, like mobile device management (MDM), and also a good...

 By Craig J. Mathias, Principal with the Farpoint Group Our research into the subject has revealed that only a single-digit percentage of wireless-LAN shops are using and benefitting from one of the most interesting features of the wireless LAN itself: the location and tracking of client devices Most...

Aerohive guest blogger: Bradley Chambers, Brainerd Baptist School Aerohive held its kick off event for their Nashville HUG (Hive User Group) this week in conjunction with the TETC (Tennessee Education Technology Conference).  Shane Moore (Regional Sales Manager) opened the meeting after everyone...

By Lisa Phifer, Core Competence Inc. I have enjoyed reading guest blogs here at the Hive Mind, as we all ruminate about the ways in which technologies such as virtualization, cloud computing, wireless, and mobility have reshaped enterprise networks and redefined “branch offices.”  As a network...

Aerohive guest blogger: Bradley Chambers, Brainerd Baptist School We often forget that our roles are just a larger piece of a puzzle. My role is to support the teachers of my school with their use of technology, including the school’s underlying controller-less Wi-Fi network. I can get bogged down...

By Craig J. Mathias, Principal with the Farpoint Group I’ve been writing this piece for two years – literally. That’s how controversial this topic is. But this hotly-debated subject is one we need to consider: Is the WLAN controller, long a fixture in many enterprise-class WLANs, still a good idea?It’...

Bradley Chambers, Brainerd Baptist School The growth of Wi-Fi only devices in my organization is exploding! We are preparing for our next lease with Apple, and none of the devices (MacBook Air and iPad) will have Ethernet ports. It's even possible that in two to three years, Ethernet ports will...