CEO Sanjit Biswas talks about founding and developing Meraki
Meraki’s journey began at MIT with a project called MIT RoofNet, which aimed to create a rooftop network covering Cambridge, MA. The project was led by Sanjit Biswas and John Dickett, who were PhD students at the time. They built the network from the ground up, including the radio chipsets, firmware, management, and routing protocols. […]
EJ Jackson demonstrates Ekahau RTLS in 10 minutes
EJ Jackson gave a brief demonstration of Ekahau’s Wi-Fi Real Time Location System (RTLS). RTLS uses Wi-Fi and infrared beacons to locate tags with sub-1 meter accuracy, and integrates with Site Survey and Vision. In his short but detailed presentation at Wireless Field Day 2, EJ Jackson showcased the different components and capabilities of Ekahau’s […]
Jussi Kiviniemi and EJ Jackson present Ekahau’s wireless site survey tools
Jussi and EJ demonstrated Ekahau’s wireless LAN tools, with an overview of Ekahau Site Survey capacity planning. Jussi also reveals the Mobile Survey application on Android. EJ demonstrated how to use Ekahau Site Survey and took questions from the audience. During the session, the Ekahau team gave an in-depth look at the evolution, functionality, and […]
Ryan Woodings demonstrates MetaGeek Sputnik, Eye PA, and other cool stuff
Ryan Woodings demonstrates MetaGeek Sputnik, Eye PA, and other cool stuff at Wireless Field Day 2. During his presentation at Wireless Field Day 2, Ryan Woodings introduced Sputnik, a prototype Wi-Fi analysis device by MetaGeek that integrates 802.11n radios, a Wi-Spy DBx spectrum analyzer, a Marvell-based Linux computer, and multiple USB ports. Designed for deployment […]
Trent Cutler of MetaGeek demonstrates Wi-Spy at WFD2
Ryan Woodings introduces the history of MetaGeek, and Trent Cutler demonstrates the latest developments in their wireless capture product line. At Wireless Field Day 2, Ryan Woodings opened the presentation by sharing the origin story of MetaGeek and the development of its first Wi-Spy product in 2005. Originally a hobbyist project during his time at […]
Aerohive demos at Wireless Field Day 2
Aerohive’s Paul Levasseur demonstrates Secure Guest Access, Branch on Demand, and “Value on Demand”, configuring the BR100 branch routers on the fly. During the Wireless Field Day 2 presentation, Paul Levasseur detailed several of Aerohive’s innovative features, beginning with Secure Guest Access. This approach aimed to improve security and reduce reliance on open networks by […]
Aerohive at WFD2 Part 1: Devin Akin, Matthew Gast, Founders
Devin Akin introduces the company and panel content, then Matthew Gast walks through his vision for Wi-Fi. Next up is Aerohive founder and CTO, Changming Liu. Finally, Abby Hassel Strong presents a review of Aerohive’s progress in 2011 and gives a special gift to Chris Lyttle. At Wireless Field Day 2, Aerohive showcases their latest […]
Aruba Presents at Wireless Field Day 2
Ekahau Presents at Wireless Field Day 2
MetaGeek Presents at Wireless Field Day 2
Aerohive Presents at Wireless Field Day 2
Coraid Use Cases and Technology Deep Dive
Mark LaRosa (Principal Architect) discusses use cases for the Coraid storage solution: Customer story: DLA – Coraid AoE SAN plus ZFS NAS Customer story: i-cubed – high-throughput GPFS Next, Mark and Carl Wright go into greater depth on the Coraid technology: Whiteboard demo of Coraid LUN and RAID configuration with a few simple CLI commands […]
Storage Protocols Compared to AoE with Coraid
Robert Przykucki (Director, Product Management at Coraid) compares enterprise storage protocols: Physical configuration of Coraid arrays History of networking and storage Protocol stack comparison: AoE, Fibre Channel, FCoE, and iSCSI The iSCSI data path: Connection-based and serial The AoE data path: Connectionless and parallel
Kaminario CEO Dani Golan presents the K2 solid state storage solution
Dani Golan presented a deep dive into their solid-state storage array. He began with some background on the solid state storage revolution and the challenges this poses to storage array design. Using a recorded demonstration, Golan showed the scale-out K2 storage system recovering from the loss of an entire active storage blade. He then discusses […]
A Demonstration of Drobo Technology with Mario Blandini
Drobo Chief Evangelist, Mario Blandini, demonstrates SSD tiering with a Drobo B1200i. The intent of this demonstration was to show how the array performance improves once an SSD is added for BeyondRAID to use. Mario also passes around an Icy Dock (which Drobo uses to mount 2.5″ SSDs) and an OCZ Talos SSD. Mario also […]