Author: Matt Barletta

WPA3 – Just the Essentials on the Latest in Wi-Fi Security

What is WPA3? WPA3 (Wi-Fi Protected Access 3) represents the latest generation in mainstream security for wireless networks. It improves the level of security compared to the widely popular WPA2 standard (released in 2004), yet maintains backward compatibility. However, supporting backward compatibility does not come without its challenges. WPA3 comes in three main forms: WPA3...

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Wi-Fi 6E Summary: Top 5 New Things About It

Just when wireless engineers got used to Wi-Fi 6 and all of its improvements like OFDMA, BSS coloring and Target Wait Time (TWT)... ...we have a brand-new wireless LAN, Wi-Fi 6E, on the horizon. What does the "E" stand for? The answer is "Exciting". Or, at least that's how every Wi-Fi enthusiast should feel about...

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Code, Heal Thyself: Mist Systems Brings Something Badly Needed to WLAN Market

Originally published on 8/15/19 at Wirednot If you do any profession long enough, you’ll experience all sorts off good and bad along the way. For me, "good" has been the honor of providing reliable Wi-Fi to hundreds of thousands of client devices through the years, and "bad" has been fending off downtime and damage to...

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Live Aggregators: Highly Reliable and Massively Scalable Real Time Aggregation System

Introduction Time series aggregation forms an integral part of the Mist Cloud. Most of our machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms rely on incoming telemetry data getting aggregated over various time intervals. A general-purpose time series aggregator can require significant resources, depending on the kind of aggregation, and hence can be difficult to scale. This…

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Automation in Action. WLAN deployment doesn’t get easier than this!

Your mission: Deploy 500 sites with thousands of APs in under 5 minutes….with no errors. Can you do it? With Mist’s API driven platform, it is actually pretty easy. In fact, we just did it for one of our customers last week. Check out this new video that shows you how.

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Mist Systems Polishes Their Message at Mobility Field Day 2

Guest post by Lee Badman. Originally posted at Wirednot. It’s always refreshing when a truly original story comes along in the WLAN world. Mist Systems isn’t quite brand new (I wrote about them for Network Computing back in 2016) but their approach is fresh enough to cause some good energy in the room when you…

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Mist Systems: A first look

Guest post by Jake Snyder. Originally posted at Transmit Failure. So I really didn’t want to like Mist Systems. I haven’t really gelled with any of the pure-cloud networking vendors and kind of expected this to be a “me too” play. So when Mist told the #MFD2 delegates they were going to send us an…

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Can You See Me Now? Introducing Asset Visibility

Asset Visibility in Healthcare

Video Blog We are thrilled to announce our latest service: Bluetooth® LE Asset Visibility! Hear what the new service has to offer from Mist Head of BD, Sunalini Sankhavaram, and VP Marketing, Jeff Aaron. If you’re interested in learning more after the video, please check out the full suite of Mist services on our website, as well as…

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11 Reasons Wireless is Sexy Again

We’re only one month into 2017, but wireless has reinvented itself and we’re falling in love all over again. Check out the slideshare, “11 Reasons Wireless is Sexy Again,” to see the technologies that are rekindling our wireless spark. Who would have thought artificial intelligence, virtual beacons, new antenna arrays, the cloud, BLE, and other…

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Get Your Network Ready for Standardized Testing

Holiday break is over and high energy students are settling back into their desks for the New Year. January brings a buzz of excitement for students to see friends and teachers, but it also brings a new, often daunting, project for administrators and IT: getting ready for testing season. How much bandwidth does each student...

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