Wi-Fi Access and Security Blog - AirTight Networks

WizShark Brings Collaboration to Troubleshooting

AirTight Team — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:24:14 +0000

By Davneetsingh Narang AirTight offered early beta access to WizShark, our visual WiFi troubleshooting tool in cloud, and since then it has been a fun ride for the team. It was heartening to see a number of WiFi professionals taking interest in the tool and appreciating its graphical representation of packet captures. Of course, the positive […]

WLAN Pros Europe: Hang Out With AirTight Experts

AirTight Team — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 03:18:52 +0000

WLAN Pros Conference is coming to Europe! As Keith Parsons (the conference’s chair and founder) puts it, “the Wireless LAN Professionals EU Summit consists of three days of fun, great topics, awesome gear, and wonderful networking.” And we are excited to have two of our technical gurus – Allen Walker out of the UK and Rick […]

Channel Bonding Caveats – Over and Above Spectrum Hogging

Hemant Chaskar — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 12:00:40 +0000

Popular literature on 802.11ac describes 40 MHz and 80 MHz operation (channel bonding) as doubling and quadrupling of the data rate, respectively. Every time I saw that mentioned, the following question came to my mind. When radio transmits over 40 MHz (or 80 MHz) channel, is the total transmit power proportionally increased over 20 MHz to […]

Why #EdTech Needs Wi-Fi? And How FCC Aims to Help

Ksenia Coffman — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 12:57:39 +0000

ISTE 2014, the largest US education technology conference, closed July 1 – good-bye, Atlanta! The time frame coincided with new developments around FCC’s proposal to close the E-rate’s “Wi-Fi gap”; we cover these below. As always happen with these large events, not everyone can go. But educators are a creative bunch. Rather than feeling left behind, […]

802.11ac Deeper Dive Webinar Recap

Matt Mullin — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:37:08 +0000

Last week, AirTight’s Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Robert Ferruolo (@RAFerruolo), added another chapter to the AirTight 802.11ac webinar series. Robert presented on “802.11ac Deeper Dive” focusing on features that come along with the 802.11ac wireless platform. During the presentation, Robert broke down channel availability, QAM, beamforming, MIMO, MU-MIMO, frame aggregation, and error correction. To view […]

Suddenly, Everyone Attacks Monetization – Wi-Fi Offload Summit, Day 1

Ksenia Coffman — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 19:24:58 +0000

The Wi-Fi Offload Summit is taking place in Palo Alto through today, June 19. Lots of interesting perspectives on what Wi-Fi offload is, Wi-Fi monetization and how to go about it, along with privacy discussions and the future of mobile network operators. The number of solutions (and vendors) in the Wi-Fi monetization space seem to […]

802.11ac Webinar Series Launched

Matt Mullin — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 11:34:13 +0000

Last week AirTight launched its 802.11ac webinar series. Throughout this six-part series, we will be touching on various aspects of the 802.11ac wireless platform. The first session touched on the Essentials of 802.11ac. Upcoming Webinars: 802.11ac Deep Dive & Beyond We will be continuing the series next week with “802.11ac Deeper Dive.” Stay tuned for […]

Wi-Fi Offload Summit: Who Will Monetize Your Brand?

Ksenia Coffman — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 12:09:23 +0000

With the theme of “Monetize Thyself!” AirTight speakers will tackle issues of real-time business intelligence, user engagement and creating value from Wi-Fi investments. Update: Please see our recap of Day 1: Suddenly, Everyone Attacks Wi-Fi Monetization. In today’s environment even the non-traditional telecom companies are jumping into the big data and monetization fray, as […]

802.11ac Essentials – Webinar

AirTight Team — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 11:46:20 +0000

Join us for a 45-min webinar on 802.11ac essentials on June 10 (11 am EST or 7 pm EST) with our senior technical marketing engineer, Robert Ferruolo. Topics include: What’s new in 802.11ac standard? 802.11ac capabilities compared to 802.11n Should I jump in now or wait for 802.11ac Wave 2? 802.11ac scalability compared to 802.11n […]

Wi-Fi Hacking 101 – Ethical of Course! (+ Video)

Zara Marklew — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 02:00:34 +0000

Watch the video from Wi-Fi Hacking 101 event series with Rick Farina, AirTight Networks senior wireless security researcher and resident hacker. “Security? Who cares,” I hear most people say. They would quickly change their mind if they had met Rick Farina, AirTight’s ethical hacker (known on Twitter as @RickLikesWIPS). UK resellers got the opportunityat a […]