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AI-driven Wireless Takes Security to the Next Level

No IT system is an island, and AI is the perfect bridge for seamlessly interconnecting wired, wireless, security, and other IT systems together. It brings much needed automation and insight and turns best-of-breed autonomous platforms into a cohesive, integrated stack. Mist has been committed from day one to lead the AI for IT charge. To…

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Mist Deployment (Part The First)

First in a series about our first deployment of a Mist Systems wireless network. Mist Systems Logo Originally posted on 5/8/18 by Ian Beyer at The CaNerdlan. Over the course of the past few months, I’ve been working with the IT staff at College Park Church in Indianapolis to overhaul their aging Ubiquiti UniFi wireless…

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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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Leveraging AI Across the Whole IT Stack

As we celebrate the 30 year anniversary of one of the networking industry’s most prolific standards, 802.11, I can’t help but think about what new standards will drive the adoption of IT for the next 30 years. As we all know, standards are not only critical for getting new technologies going. They are also essential…

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Building Blocks for AI: Mutual Information and the Pearson Correlation

There are many algorithms and data mining techniques that empower artificial intelligence (AI)-driven technologies, including virtual network assistants. In the world of wireless networking, mutual information is important because it helps to determine which network features (e.g. mobile device type, client or access point) have the highest probability of predicting failure or success. This can...

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Mean time to innocence – using AI to uncover the truth behind perceived WiFi issues

AI replaces manual WiFi management tasks with automated intelligence and provides deep insight that helps identify and fix problems faster than ever before. Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) is a common term in IT that represents the average time required to repair a failed component or device. In networking, MTTR is often longer than desired…

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Balancing the Desire for Location Analytics with User Privacy

The Impact that MAC Randomization has on Location Analytics Introduction Bluetooth is a wireless personal area networking standard for exchanging data over short distances. Bluetooth low energy (BLE) (also known as Version 4.0+ of the Bluetooth specification, or Bluetooth Smart) is the power- and application-friendly version of Bluetooth that was built for the Internet of…

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Darkness Falls Across the Land…

“Darkness falls across the land The midnight hour is close at hand Creatures crawl in search of blood To terrorize y’all’s neighborhood And whosoever shall be found Without the soul for getting down Must stand and face the hounds of hell And rot inside a corpse’s shell The foulest stench is in the air The…

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Got a big event? Mist has you covered. Literally!

Wi-Fi has become a staple at almost every tradeshow. But only recently have event coordinators started to take wireless to the next level with valuable location-based services like wayfinding, proximity notifications, and traffic analytics. Mist’s virtual BLE solution is key to this transition, as it enables highly accurate location services without relying on battery powered…

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