A wireless network engineer from Texas with a passion for technology and using it to do amazing things.
Today at the 2015 Aruba Atmosphere conference in Las Vegas, one of the things that got the most attention from the online audience was the inclusion of a sensor product that is supposed to be out in the second half of 2015. Few things got the amount of ooh's and ahhh's, at least for those... Continue Reading →
I saw an article about LTE-U, or LAA LTE in most circles, right before all of the holiday madness. As I read through it and about T-Mobile's upcoming plans to leverage the unlicensed 5 GHz spectrum for small cell markets, it got me wondering about the spectrum itself, overcrowding in 5 GHz, and how it... Continue Reading →
So I am definitely not the authority when it comes to connected cars. I'm pretty good at building wireless networks for municipalities, enterprises and businesses, but when it comes to the carrier stuff and building out a national network that's not really my expertise. The reason I preface this blog post with that is because... Continue Reading →
I was out on an install recently and speaking with a group that runs the connectivity and IT service for a group of libraries in a City. We were discussing firewalls, application awareness, and eventually good ol' Wi-Fi. When someone brought up the iPhone 6, we began discussing VoLTE and Wi-Fi calling. The conversation that... Continue Reading →
I'm only posting this because it has been my journey for the last 2 days, and I want to share the secret sauce that worked for me. PS, in the release notes FlexMaster is only supposed to run on RedHat Enterprise Linux and CentOS 6.3 or 6.5, so take that as a warning that while... Continue Reading →
To say that I became a little obsessed with my terrible Wi-Fi experience on Southwest Airlines from LAS to HOU today is an understatement.Trying @SouthwestAir #Wi-Fi again. It's still terrible. Don't think I'll be flying #SWA again specifically because of this. #YourWiFiSucks— Wireless Nerd (@Wirelessnerd) September 12, 2014//platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsAs anyone who may have been a follower... Continue Reading →
I want to talk about one little issue that keeps popping up over and over to reiterate something that might be overlooked, as it is so many times in the field:DHCP Scope Size on Public Wireless NetworksIt sounds ridiculous, I know, but I've had to troubleshoot so many networks where the DHCP scope was not... Continue Reading →
The retail analytics space just got another new player in the game: Fortinet announced yesterday availability of presence and analytics. Teamed up with Kiana Analytics out of San Francisco, Fortinet comes to the game a little later than some of its competitors, however the power of the FortiGate UTM device makes them a formidable contender... Continue Reading →
One of the greatest things about doing what I do in the local community is that I get to go visit places that I haven't been to in a pretty long time, or that I went to as a kid and get to see them from an entirely different perspective. One of those places is... Continue Reading →