Can we turn off the Access Points to save power?

Can we turn off the Access-Point (AP) to save power? It depends, do we want to do that? But we don’t have a power switch on the AP. How to do it? Lets talk about it!..

How to Create zones In Spaces

With a Real-Time Location System we most often not only want to track users moving behavior, but also count the user per building, floor, or room level.
The title of this blog post is called “How to Create zones in Spaces”, because, in a Cisco Wireless eco-System we use zoning to make this possible. One click away I’m going to explain how to set up zoning with Spaces

WPA3 OWE in transition mode

As part of the WPA3 Enhanced Open authentication mode, OWE was introduced. But how can we have 1 SSID compatible with OWE and non-OWE-capable clients, Let’s look at how it works.

6Ghz Packet Capture with WLANPI R4

The WLANPI is a all in one tool, to verify test and troubleshoot Wi-Fi networks. I assembled a WLANPI R4 to able to capture 6Ghz networks, because they already are deployed and we need to able to see them to fix them.

My first teaching video online

I’m teaching every 2 weeks my colleague’s things about Wi-Fi to get it more alive in the network team. This time not all colleague’s where able to join, so I recorded this session so they can play it back later.

Measure energy with IoT over Wi-Fi

HistoryIoT was born in 1999 when Kevin Ashton wanted to attach the RFID supply chain to the internet, then we have the internet of things he said. Later in 2005, the ITU said something (defined) the IoT 2005. But IoT really got ground in 2008 when the Connected objects (things) started to exceed the Human […]

Wi-Fi inside Climate cells, sure!

NPEC is a research company that finished its new research facility to do “eco-phenotyping” Within this facility, there are 5 controlled climate cells. Inside the cells, they study the effect of plants grown under different climate conditions. They asked us to install Wi-Fi for their new building (see picture below). The building looks like this […]

Dynamic Bandwidth Channel Access or DBS (Cisco)

Instead of a post, I created a short interesting video about the behavior in RF when DBS kicks in.Actually, I created this video in the first place for my internal class, to show colleagues the effect on utilization from other frequencies. But we can here also see the DBCA (Dynamic Bandwidth Channel Access ) behavior […]

WiFi is down, what change did you make?

This weekend I got a call from an educational institute. The WiFi was down. They use an SDA fabric with a fabric-enabled Cisco 9800 WLC for their wireless. The incident occurred right after they made a change from DNAC to push new radius servers to the WLC. The problem was that no client station could […]

Testing RTLS in a non RTLS environment

RTLS (Real Time Location Services) incorporates identification, location, and timing—what, where, and when. The term RTLS generally encapsulates systems providing proximity-based data or actual coordinates In essence, RTLS shows the what, where, and when within a defined locale, quantifying these factors in a way decision-makers can understand. For instance, RTLS could be used to show […]