the Access Point Blog

To Control or Not to Control?

By Robert Crisp — I’m still convinced that the challenges facing Wi-Fi are still primarily of an RF nature. There can be no arguing that for the majority of verticals Wi-Fi has or is becoming the default transport for applications requiring mission critical-level service. Now we can argue what is mission-critical and what isn’t, but [...]

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Sometimes Size Does Matter (Airtime Un-Fairness)

By Richard Watson, Product Marketing – The major promise from the 802.11ac standard is higher wireless data rates. More people are bringing more devices into the workplace and executing more applications demanding more bandwidth. 802.11n provides us with a theoretical maximum data rate of 450 Mbps on a 3×3:3 MIMO design which seemed more than [...]

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Meru Survey of Higher Education Leaders Highlights IT Innovation in Response to Rapid Change

By Richard Nedwich, Director of Marketing, Education Business Unit — Higher Education is not only the largest user of WLAN equipment by revenue, but presents some of the biggest deployment challenges, too.  If it’s going to hit your wireless network, it’s probably already on a college or university network already. What’s more, with the variety [...]

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