Wi-Fi Access and Security Blog - AirTight Networks

Retail Fraud 2014: Yes, It’s an Event, Not Another Breach

Zara Marklew — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 23:58:18 +0000

This is the biggest show in the UK for physical and technical fraud protection within the retail and online industries and AirTight was invited to attend for the first time, an invite we accepted gladly as we can offer secure, PCI compliant Wi-Fi which ultimately offers brand protection, so a win-win for all! Secret Identities […]

The Growing Prevalence of Wi-Fi Extension with Mesh

Andrew vonNagy — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 17:03:06 +0000

Industry professionals have tended to view mesh networking from a “realist” point-of-view as a niche solution to be avoided if possible, and have never considered the technology the most popular of Wi-Fi capabilities. This pragmatism is rooted in the typical negative performance implications of mesh networks. Just a few years ago mesh capability was limited […]

Retail Business Technology Expo 2014: SMAC and Awe!

Zara Marklew — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 19:07:21 +0000

Within the vast expanse of Earls Court, West London, RBTE 2014 has been a roaring success, again, for Airtight. This is the second year Airtight has exhibited at RBTE. Following AirTight’s rapid growth within the UK and across Europe over the past year, we couldn’t miss out on this opportunity to discuss and demonstrate our […]

Management System Diversity: “Manage WLANs from Anywhere Using Anything!”

AirTight Team — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 18:17:00 +0000

So much competitive marketing noise has been made over the last half dozen years about managing WLANs that vendors are now trying to manage WLANs from anywhere using everything. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least to hear a vendor say that they can now manage a branch WLAN in France from the comfort of […]

Peek Inside 802.11ac Access Point Hardware Designs

Hemant Chaskar — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 01:02:16 +0000

There is large and ever increasing assortment of enterprise access points offered by wireless vendors today. APs have different number of radios, number of streams, 11n/11ac, POE compatibility, peripherals, price, etc. While this diversity is overwhelming, have you wondered what lies in the hardware guts of these APs? What are the hardware design concepts that […]

Away from Corner Cases: High Density, Low Throughput Wi-Fi

AirTight Team — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 18:47:00 +0000

In my blog called Corner Cases, I mentioned that high density, high throughput (HDHT) cases are in the extreme minority (<1%). In this blog, I would like to discuss High Density, Low Throughput (HDLT), which I believe will be the situation that over half of the installed Wi-Fi infrastructures of the world will face at […]

Education Technology at BETT 2014: Wireless as a Service, 802.11ac and Social Wi-Fi

Zara Marklew — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:32:47 +0000

This is the first post is from Zara Marklew, EMEA channel manager, who is the newest addition to the AirTight team in Europe. Connect with Zara on LinkedIn and Twitter. Welcome, Zara! BETT 2014, UK’s learning technology show, has been and gone, but it certainly won’t be forgotten! For those in the educational technology sector, be it primary […]

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

AirTight Team — 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 […]