The 5th WiFi Knowledge Summit was held in Bangalore on March 9, 2018. Billed as a gathering of WiFi enthusiasts and practitioners, the Summit drew an audience of 200+ from 80 organizations. The attendees represented OEMs, ODMs, chipset companies, Telcos, ISPs, Govt. officials and members of the academia.

WPP's Stream Asia is the leading Asia-Pacific media and technology event. This ‘unconference’ brings together a highly exclusive set of (un)conventional thought leaders from the media and technology industries to discuss the future of creativity, communications and business. This year’s event was held at the Fairmont Hotel in Jaipur, India Feb 28 through March 3, 2018.

The Wireless LAN Pros conference in Phoenix last week was a great event. Thank you Keith Parsons for routinely organizing some of the smartest minds in WLAN.  I was lucky enough to be selected to present to that august group on why I believe every access point should include a 3rd, non-access, WiFi radio. 

You may have experience asking the digital assistant on your smartphone to schedule a meeting or provide weather update. What if you could have a similar assistant to ask about the overall health of the network, debug client issues or take corrective actions?  

The latest Apple bug, in which one Telugu character can crash a user's Messages app on any iOS device, also affects WiFi networks.  

If a malicious user creates a WiFi network with the specific Telugu character in the SSID (network name), it crashes the WiFi app (Settings --> WiFi) on iPhones, iPads, and other iOS devices. In our testing, it also renders the menu bar WiFi settings unusable on Macbook laptops. 

I just watched the Marysville Schools video case study. "It just works", "Plug and play" were the words that the IT Director and Network Administrator used to describe Mojo Networks WiFi. It is great to see an amazing vision come to fruition.

It reminded me of the Steve Jobs quote: “Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”