Hello Mojo World! Autumn is fast upon us and as the leaves begin to change (depending on where you are of course) so too does our cloud platform with another great product release. Today I want to highlight two key aspects, each of which represent a significant foot forward towards the future of WiFi, and we are excited to share them with you today.
Topics: Cloud, Software, K-12, C-130, higher education, WiFi performance, Mojo Aware
In today’s mature networking market, there are a good number of wired and wireless networking vendors. They offer traditional hardware pricing, complicated packages, expensive on-premise appliances, and limited cloud managed WiFi solutions. They are trusted logos and appeal to the “play it safe” mindset.
However, there are a good number of organizations that don’t want more of the same. They are looking for something innovative. They are looking for networking infrastructure solutions that offer:
Topics: WLAN networks, TCO
Why don’t most enterprise WiFi access point vendors tell you what’s inside their AP? They don’t publish which WiFi chipset the AP uses, or the CPU specification. At best they state the amount of RAM. When you evaluate APs for your deployment, you should consider hardware components. Hardware components and the software running on it will impact the AP’s performance and user experience. The test results below demonstrate this.
Topics: WiFi performance, Ruckus R710, Aruba IAP-325, testing, Qualcomm QCA9994, benchmark
While doing research on the Ruckus website for the R710, I noticed the statement of “Up to 2 times extended range and coverage with Ruckus BeamFlex technology.” Challenge accepted! To evaluate this claim we used a distributed client test, which determines the AP’s downstream performance when its clients are spread near and far, from excellent to marginal signal strength and points in between. This test simulates the performance of the AP in a typical enterprise, carpeted environment.
Topics: WLAN planning, C-120, Ruckus R710, testing, Enterprise, benchmark
When is the last time you said: “Wow, this WiFi is great!”? You don’t really notice it when it works. You are more likely to say: “This WiFi is crap” when it doesn’t meet your expectations. WiFi is no longer a convenience, it’s an essential utility like electricity. You would like it work every time and without hesitation, like turning on a light.
Like the power grid, one of the biggest challenges in designing a wireless network is capacity planning. The goal of capacity planning is to determine how many access points are needed to provide a good user experience. Deploying too many APs is a waste of money and can make performance worse, but deploying too few will cause user experience problems (the equivalent of brownouts) when an AP becomes oversubscribed.
Topics: WLAN planning, C-120, K-12, WiFi performance, Aerohive AP250, testing, benchmark
Surprisingly, we have been receiving a lot of social media chatter from Meraki folks about our latest performance testing comparing the Mojo C-120 to Meraki’s MR53, two leading 802.11ac Wave 2 access points.
Topics: C-120, WiFi performance, testing, Meraki MR53, benchmark, bakeoff
In a recent blog post we compared the performance of the Mojo C-120 to the Meraki MR42. In that blog we highlighted results of a test we ran last spring. When we test, we test the best of the competition with the latest software and published best practices at that point in time. When that test was run, the MR42 was the best Meraki had to offer. Once Meraki made the MR53 available, we tested it and here are the results.
Topics: C-120, WLAN, WiFi performance, Meraki MR42, testing, Meraki MR53, Enterprise, benchmark
Google Apps for Education is crushing it in the education market. They deliver tons of management features, securely via the cloud, and make their architecture highly extensible via rich application programming interfaces (APIs). To date, Google Apps for Education hosts user and device policies for more than 50 million students, teachers, and administrators around the world.
Topics: K-12, higher education, Google Apps for Education, Mojo Enforce, Google for Education, GAFE
Mojo Networks provides a great K-12 solution by covering the three S’s for education – Safety, Simplicity, and Savings. We provide safety with the best WIPS solution in the industry. Our cloud managed WiFi stretches E-Rate dollars, saving the unnecessary cost of controllers, and our pricing eliminates expensive AP markup. Our automatic AP configuration couldn’t be simpler. I’d like to add a fourth S to this line-up: Speed.
Topics: C-120, access points, WiFi performance, Meraki MR42, benchmark
The classroom paradigm continues to shift as new technology is adopted. Long gone are the days of watching a movie in class by threading the film from one reel, through the projector, onto the other reel. Film was replaced by videotape, which was replaced by laser disks and then by DVDs. The new classroom instruction model includes HD video streamed wirelessly on demand from a local/regional distribution server (or from the web) to each student, who has their own computer or tablet.
The latest paradigm is much more personal and interactive, which greatly increases the number of clients (tablets, laptops, and smartphones), the client density, the different types of applications, and the requirements and bandwidth those applications. In order to be able to support this shift, many parts of the school’s IT infrastructure must be updated, especially the wireless LAN.
Topics: C-120, access points, WLAN, Video, WiFi performance, Aerohive AP250, Meraki MR42, Aruba IAP-325, benchmark
