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HIMSS 2014 – Big on Wireless

Robert Ferruolo — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 20:04:22 +0000

This year’s show was huge. According to the events organizers, there were 1,200 exhibitors and 38,000 healthcare professionals in attendance and there were more nurses, physicians, IT staff and executives in attendance at this year’s HIMSS than ever before. Connecting Right People to the Right Information in the Right Time Some of the main areas […]

Restaurant Wi-Fi Primer – On-demand Webinar from Hospitality Technology Magazine

AirTight Team — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 22:14:11 +0000

Last week we participated in the Restaurant Wi-Fi Primer webinar with Hospitality Technology Magazine, Boston Market and Spartan Computer Services. Kevin McCauley presented on best practices in retail Wi-Fi analytics and social media integration. To view the webinar on demand, go to Hospitality Technology (free registration required). You can also view AirTight’s slides on SlideShare. […]

Corner Cases

Devin Akin — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 01:29:58 +0000

Most Wi-Fi manufacturer’s marketing departments would have you believe that 99% of all deployments are what I’d call “corner cases.” I call B.S. (as usual). Here are the high-density/high-throughput (HDHT) corner cases that so many manufacturers would have you believe are so prevalent: Large K-12 and University libraries, cafeterias, lecture halls, and auditoriums Stadium or […]

Distributed Healthcare Needs Wi-Fi That Works at Scale

Andrew vonNagy — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 17:07:48 +0000

The growth and adoption of mobile technologies is impacting businesses in multiple industries, and we can see strong evidence of this by looking at the healthcare industry. I just returned from the WLAN Professionals Conference in Austin, TX where I heard first-hand evidence of this in a presentation on Continuous Wireless for Medical Devices. A […]

Healthcare, Wi-Fi and HIPAA – A Tricky Combination

Hemant Chaskar — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 20:22:20 +0000

What a great start to year on the industry events front – we started with NRF in January, looking forward to HIMSS and our ACTS event in February, and MURTEC in March. In NRF, high points of discussion were around Social Wi-Fi and analytics. That said, topics of security and PCI compliance were also high […]

Reflections on Wireless Field Day 6

AirTight Team — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 19:20:21 +0000

What a week it was with WFD6 edutainment! Great minds from different vendors presented their great Wi-Fi stuff during WFD6. With so much happening, our challenge was to fit in as much update as possible in two hours. Cloud comes first Cloud is what AirTight is and will be evangelizing for years to come. Cloud […]

AirTight at Wireless Field Day 6 #WFD6

AirTight Team — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:32:03 +0000

Thanks to all who watch the AirTight session live stream! Videos You can watch the WFD6 videos on our YouTube channel. Twitter Highlights Here are Twitter highlights from the event (in reverse chronological order, so you will get the praise first ) [View the story "AirTight at Wireless Field Day 6" on Storify] If you […]

Wireless Field Day 6 – We’re Back!

Michael Downes — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:12:11 +0000

Update: Please see our recap of Wireless Field Day 6 Original post: Last August, AirTight Networks made its Wireless Field Day debut. We had such a good time with all of the delegates and organizers that six months later we’re back as the opening presenters for WFD6 on January 29, 2014, 10 a.m. Pacific. We […]

5 Reasons Why Facebook Wi-Fi is for Local Biz, but Not for Retail Enterprises

Hemant Chaskar — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:20:42 +0000

Netgear recently announced integration with Facebook on their APs using Facebook Wi-Fi API. Meraki and Cisco have also announced the same capability on their APs. Facebook Wi-Fi franchise is growing. It is easy to configure and get working (except when used on Cisco APs, which requires running separate CMX VM and per-AP license). That is […]

Retail Analytics: Who Owns The Data?

Devin Akin — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:45:03 +0000

At AirTight Networks, we talk a lot of SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud). Together these forces have come together to significantly impact and radically change various markets. It’s not hard to wax eloquent about SMAC for long periods of time, but in this article, I want to focus only on the Analytics piece – that […]