Cisco Update on the Meraki Acquisition with Sanjit Biswas

Event: Wireless Field Day 4

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Wireless Field Day 4

Company: Cisco Mobility, Meraki

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Personnel: Sanjit Biswas

Meraki Co-Founder and CEO, Sanjit Biswas, updates the Wireless Field Day 4 delegates on Cisco’s recent acquisition of his company. Sanjit discusses Cisco’s plans for the Meraki product line as well as the future of the cloud-managed platform at Meraki and within Cisco and rumors of a tie-in with Cisco’s divestment of Linksys. Meraki has a new building in San Francisco and is building new products. Delegates ask about cultural change within Meraki, the value of Meraki’s “make a wish” user interface for direct feedback, the future of Meraki’s product line, and international plans.


WFD4 Roundtable: Tools of the (Wi-Fi) Trade

Event: Wireless Field Day 4

Appearance: Delegate Roundtables at Wireless Field Day 4

Company: N/A

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Personnel: Keith Parsons

How does a Wi-Fi engineer do his job? In this roundtable discussion, the Wireless Field Day 4 delegates discuss their favorite tools.

Casual tools: NetStumbler, MetaGeek inSSIDer

Predictive Survey tools: Ekahau Site Survey, AirMagnet Survey, Motorola LANPlanner, Cisco WCS

Discovery tools: AirMagnet Survey, WildPackets OmniPeek, AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer, MetaGeek inSSIDer, Fluke AirCheck

The Survey Process and Post-Install Validation surveys (AP on a Stick): Ekahau Site Survey, AirMagnet Survey, TamoSoft TamoGraph Site Survey

Tip: Install AirMagney Survey on a dedicated machine (or in a virtual machine), run it on an SSD, and make sure there is lots of RAM

Packet Analysis and Troubleshooting: Wireshark, MetaGeek AirPcap for data capture

Costing tools: OmniPeek, AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer

AirPcap Tip: The internal NIC on a Mac sometimes outperforms the AirPcap device

 


WFD4 Roundtable: Wi-Fi Problems That Aren’t Wi-Fi Problems

Event: Wireless Field Day 4

Appearance: Delegate Roundtables at Wireless Field Day 4

Company: N/A

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Personnel: Lee Badman

People love to complain about Wi-Fi: It’s slow, they can’t get connected, and things stop working. But many of these issues aren’t actually Wi-Fi problems! This roundtable, introduced by Lee Badman, discusses issues that aren’t actually Wi-Fi related.


WFD4 Roundtable: Getting Started With a Career in Wi-Fi

Event: Wireless Field Day 4

Appearance: Delegate Roundtables at Wireless Field Day 4

Company: N/A

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Personnel: Blake Krone, George Stefanick, Jennifer Huber, Keith Parsons

The Wireless Field Day 4 delegates discuss the career of a Wi-Fi engineer, including how to get started and what to expect. They suggest starting with a home lab and some basic certifications, seeking out a mentor, connecting online with Twitter and a blog, and moving up in the industry.


Future Wi-Fi Innovations from Juniper

Event: Wireless Field Day 4

Appearance: Juniper Presents at Wireless Field Day 4

Company: Juniper Networks

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Personnel: Daniel Wade, Steve Gau

Discussion of what is coming soon to execute on building mission critical networks with Juniper.


Juniper High Density Testing

Event: Wireless Field Day 4

Appearance: Juniper Presents at Wireless Field Day 4

Company: Juniper Networks

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Personnel: Tim McCarthy

Discussion of the high density and scale testing methodology that Juniper is using to qualify products for customers with dense deployments such as colleges.

More information: http://www.juniper.net/us/en/solutions/enterprise/research-education/colleges-universities/#overview


Juniper Unified Management: Introducing Network Director

Event: Wireless Field Day 4

Appearance: Juniper Presents at Wireless Field Day 4

Company: Juniper Networks

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Personnel: Bruce Alexander, Rajesh Patil

A unified wired and wireless network management application, featuring full life cycle management, pre/post deployment life cycle tools with single pane of glass visibility to manage infrastructure, users and services.


Building Mission Critical Wi-Fi Networks with Juniper

Event: Wireless Field Day 4

Appearance: Juniper Presents at Wireless Field Day 4

Company: Juniper Networks

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Personnel: Bruce Alexander

This session reviews how Juniper is building the mission critical network, includes WLAN differentiators, recent product introductions: WLA532E, 802.11n AP with external antenna, SmartPass Connect for BYOD provisioning

Links:

  • http://www.juniper.net/us/en/products-services/wireless/
  • http://www.outlookseries.com/vendor_perspective/Juniper_WLAN.htm
  • http://www.juniper.net/elqNow/elqRedir.htm?ref=http://www.juniper.net/us/en/local/pdf/solutionbriefs/3510465-en.pdf


Aruba Controllerless Wi-Fi

Event: Wireless Field Day 4

Appearance: Aruba Networks Presents at Wireless Field Day 4

Company: HPE Aruba Networking

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Personnel: David Munro, Neil Kulkarni

  • Hands on with Aruba Activate & Instant
  • Cloud-based provisioning of APs across multiple sites
  • New features in Aruba Instant during last year


Aruba Controller-Based Wi-Fi

Event: Wireless Field Day 4

Appearance: Aruba Networks Presents at Wireless Field Day 4

Company: HPE Aruba Networking

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Personnel: Bala Krishnamurthy, Scott Calzia

  • Hands on with Aruba 7200
  • New 7200 series mobility controllers
  • RF, network and application visibility


Aruba Controller-based and Controllerless Wi-Fi

Event: Wireless Field Day 4

Appearance: Aruba Networks Presents at Wireless Field Day 4

Company: HPE Aruba Networking

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Personnel: Ozer Dondurmacioglu

How to select the best architecture?


Aruba AirWave: Monitoring the Health of a Wi-Fi Network

Event: Wireless Field Day 4

Appearance: Aruba Networks Presents at Wireless Field Day 4

Company: HPE Aruba Networking

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Personnel: Rob Gin, Sujatha Mandava

Aruba Networks introduces and demonstrates AirWave at Wireless Field Day 4, February 14, 2013

  • Hands on with AirWave
  • Proactive troubleshooting with alerts and triggers
  • Wireless planning, RF visualization and location
  • Customized reporting on WLAN and wireless IPS


Wi-Fi Stress Test with Keith Parsons

Event: Wireless Field Day 4

Appearance: Wi-Fi Stress Tests with Keith Parsons

Company: N/A

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Personnel: Keith Parsons

Keith Parsons demonstrates his Wi-Fi stress testing methodology. He begins with an overview presentation, then demonstrates uploading and downloading using an Apple Airport Extreme and Metageek Wi-Spy.


Jonathan Davidson and Tamir Hardof Introduce the Juniper Session at WFD4

Event: Wireless Field Day 4

Appearance: Juniper Presents at Wireless Field Day 4

Company: Juniper Networks

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Personnel: Jonathan Davidson, Tamir Hardof

Jonathan Davidson and Tamir Hardof Introduce the Juniper Session at Wireless Field Day 4 on February 14, 2013 in Sunnyvale, CA


Motorola Auto AP Provisioning & Troubleshooting

Event: Wireless Field Day 4

Appearance: Motorola Solutions Presents at Wireless Field Day 4

Company: Motorola

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Personnel: Vik Evans


Motorola WiNG5 Distributed Architecture

Event: Wireless Field Day 4

Appearance: Motorola Solutions Presents at Wireless Field Day 4

Company: Motorola

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Personnel: Sriram Venkiteswaran


Motorola Solutions Overview

Event: Wireless Field Day 4

Appearance: Motorola Solutions Presents at Wireless Field Day 4

Company: Motorola

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Personnel: Cherie Martin, Sriram Venkiteswaran


NetEx HyperIP Beer Bottle Demo from TFD5

Event: Tech Field Day 5

Appearance: NetEx Presents at Tech Field Day 5

Company: NetEx

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Personnel: Bob MacIntyre, Nancy Golio

Recorded at Tech Field Day 5 on February 11, 2011, the NetEx presentation by Bob MacIntyre and Nancy Golio showcased their HyperIP software’s capabilities in WAN acceleration using a memorable beer bottle analogy. The presenters began by providing background on NetEx, a company that spun out of StorageTek in 1999 and is based in Minneapolis. They highlighted the company’s focus on enterprise server software and WAN optimization, specifically targeting disaster recovery (DR) applications, backup, and large data transfers. The presenters emphasized that HyperIP is designed to optimize data movement between data centers, ensuring timely and reliable delivery of mission-critical data.

The core of the presentation revolved around explaining the challenges of latency and packet loss in wide area networks (WANs) and how HyperIP addresses these issues. Using a creative analogy involving beer bottles, the presenters illustrated the inefficiencies of traditional TCP/IP protocols over WANs. In the analogy, beer bottles represented data packets, and the process of passing them along a line of people demonstrated the delays and potential losses that occur in a WAN environment. HyperIP mitigates these issues by terminating TCP connections locally, aggregating data packets, and using UDP for transmission between HyperIP appliances. This approach allows HyperIP to maintain high throughput and minimize the impact of latency and packet loss, effectively keeping the data “pipe” full and ensuring efficient data transfer.

The technical details of HyperIP were further elaborated, highlighting its deployment as a virtual machine that requires minimal resources and can be easily integrated into existing networks. The software uses advanced flow control mechanisms based on network capacity, round-trip time, and receiver rate feedback to optimize data transfer. HyperIP also supports features like compression, selective retransmission, and rate limiting, making it suitable for various network environments, including those with high packet loss. The presentation concluded with examples of HyperIP’s effectiveness in real-world scenarios, such as improving data transfer for online gaming companies and working seamlessly with data deduplication solutions. Overall, the demonstration effectively conveyed how HyperIP enhances WAN performance, ensuring reliable and efficient data movement across geographically dispersed locations.


Jaspreet Singh Introduces Druva

Event: Tech Field Day 5

Appearance: Druva Presents at Tech Field Day 5

Company: Druva

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Personnel: Jaspreet Singh

Recorded on February 10, 2011, this video was the first American introduction of Druva and their enterprise endpoint protection product. Jaspreet Singh, Co-Founder and CEO of Druva, introduces the company and its technology, Singh discusses the customer pain points related to endpoint data protection, issues with existing backup solutions, and the new Druva approach.

In his presentation at Tech Field Day 8, Jaspreet Singh introduced Druva as a company focused on providing endpoint data protection solutions for enterprises. Founded by a team of former Veritas engineers, Druva was created to address data protection in increasingly mobile and decentralized workplace environments, prioritizing simplicity, performance, and minimal resource usage. Singh highlighted the growing challenge of managing backup needs across laptops and mobile devices, citing that the average corporate laptop now holds about 10GB of data, and that bandwidth limitations make traditional backup methods impractical. In response, Druva aimed to create a fresh and compelling solution that wasn’t just a repurposing of legacy products.

Singh explained that Druva’s flagship product, inSync, was designed from the ground up for modern endpoints, with a 40MB lightweight stack and seamless deployment that avoids the need for additional infrastructure like databases or web servers. A key differentiator was Druva’s global source-based deduplication, which is application-aware and significantly more accurate than traditional deduplication methods. This deduplication strategy recognizes complex data structures, like those in PST or Office files, determining precise boundaries for emails and attachments to optimize storage and minimize network usage. Druva’s architecture also incorporates multi-threaded backup transfers to reduce latency, works intelligently in varied network conditions, and ensures backups are non-intrusive for end users by regulating CPU and bandwidth usage and delaying backup tasks during startup or battery consumption.

The presentation concluded with a discussion of Druva’s restoration capabilities and forward-looking vision. The inSync product offered rapid, search-based file recovery accessible via desktop, browser, or mobile clients like iPads. While full iPad backup functionality was not yet supported due to platform limitations, Singh shared Druva’s ambition to expand beyond simple backup to broader enterprise data management, including secure remote wipe and data access management. Despite the rise of cloud services like Gmail and Exchange, Singh emphasized that many organizations still store significant data locally on laptops—especially email caches due to corporate server quotas—making laptop backup essential for data recovery and productivity continuity. Druva’s solution therefore aimed to fill existing gaps in endpoint protection with purpose-built technology rather than retrofitted legacy tools.


Tim Myers (GETO) on the VMware Booth Rack

Event: Tech Field Day 1

Appearance: VMware Presents at Tech Field Day 1

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: Tim Myers

This video was taken at the Gestalt IT Field Day (November 2009) with this session being held at VMware. Tim Myers (Senior Architect) gives more information and background to the design of the VMware “Booth Rack” that was used at the VMworld 2009 event in San Francisco.


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