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Randy Monroe introduces the first Tech Field Day Roundtable discussion: The panel discusses the implications and technical requirements for personal Wi-Fi networks in the enterprise, focusing especially on Apple AirPlay, AirPrint, and similar protocols. Managing Personal WLANs and service discovery within the confines of Enterprise Wireless LANs.

Large-Scale WLAN Management

Event: Tech Field Day Roundtable at Aruba Airheads 2012

Appearance: Tech Field Day Roundtables at Aruba Airheads Conference 2012

Company: HPE Aruba Networking

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Personnel: Carlos Gomez, Chris Lyttle, Daniel Cybulskie, David Morton, Don Barry, Jennifer Huber, Partha Narasimhan, Randy Monroe, Ryan Holland, Sam Clements, Sean Rynearson

Chris Lyttle introduces the third Tech Field Day Roundtable discussion: The panel discusses large-scale WLAN management, of multiple sites, worldwide deployments or redundant networks.

User Device Security Policies

Event: Tech Field Day Roundtable at Aruba Airheads 2012

Appearance: Tech Field Day Roundtables at Aruba Airheads Conference 2012

Company: HPE Aruba Networking

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Personnel: Carlos Gomez, Chris Lyttle, Daniel Cybulskie, David Morton, Don Barry, Jennifer Huber, Partha Narasimhan, Randy Monroe, Ryan Holland, Sam Clements, Sean Rynearson

Dan Cybulskie introduces the second Tech Field Day Roundtable discussion: The panel discusses using user and device policies to provide contextual role-based access control for mobile devices and BYODs. Using machine credentials in conjunction with user credentials to authenticate wireless client devices to secure WLANs.

High-Density Wireless LAN

Event: Tech Field Day Roundtable at Aruba Airheads 2012

Appearance: Tech Field Day Roundtables at Aruba Airheads Conference 2012

Company: HPE Aruba Networking

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Personnel: Carlos Gomez, Chris Lyttle, Daniel Cybulskie, David Morton, Don Barry, Jennifer Huber, Partha Narasimhan, Randy Monroe, Ryan Holland, Sam Clements, Sean Rynearson

The Tech Field Day presentation on High-Density Wireless LAN, recorded on March 22, 2012, brought together a diverse panel of experts to discuss the challenges and solutions associated with deploying wireless networks in high-capacity venues. Sean Rynearson introduced the roundtable discussion, emphasizing the shift from designing for coverage to designing for high density. This shift is necessitated by the increasing number of devices each user carries, such as phones, tablets, and laptops, which can saturate older wireless cells. The panelists, including representatives from universities, large public venues, and Aruba Networks, shared their experiences and insights on managing high-density wireless environments, particularly in settings with high noise floors and rogue access points.

One of the key points discussed was the importance of minimizing the time each client spends on the air to maximize the efficiency of the wireless network. This involves keeping clients at high data rates and ensuring they quickly roam to access points with better connectivity. The analogy of buses on a road was used to illustrate this concept: smaller packets (or people) allow for more efficient use of the available bandwidth. The panelists also highlighted the need for proper infrastructure utilization, such as ensuring access points are correctly tuned and channels are appropriately managed, whether through static or dynamic channelization. Innovative design strategies, like placing access points under buildings to use the attenuation of concrete floors, were also mentioned as effective ways to reduce cell size and interference.

The discussion also touched on the challenges of dealing with legacy devices and the need for careful planning and validation in high-density deployments. The panelists noted that simply trimming data rates to increase airtime fairness can be complicated by the presence of older devices that still require connectivity. They emphasized the importance of spectrum analysis and adaptive radio management to ensure the airspace is usable and to mitigate the impact of rogue devices. The conversation underscored the necessity of a circular planning process, where continuous validation and adjustment are crucial. The panelists also shared experiences from unexpected high-density scenarios, such as gymnasiums and lecture halls, and discussed the ongoing issue of users bringing their own network devices, which can interfere with the venue’s wireless network.

SolarWinds presents at Tech Field Day 7

Event: Tech Field Day 7

Appearance: SolarWinds Presents at Tech Field Day 7

Company: SolarWinds

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Personnel: Brian Radovich, Daniel O'Connor, Joel Dolisy

At Tech Field Day 7, SolarWinds introduced its distinctive approach to IT management, contrasting it with traditional enterprise vendors like HP and IBM. VP of Products, Daniel O’Connor, emphasized SolarWinds’ focus on the mid-market and its bottom-up, user-centric development model, where products are tested and purchased directly by IT managers rather than being sold top-down to executives. This user-focused strategy necessitates software that is easy to use, install, and delivers value immediately without relying on professional services or heavy sales support. The company engages an active community called THWACK to solicit direct feedback, which heavily influences product design and functionality. This has resulted in a portfolio of over 20 commercial and several free tools, which collectively address the needs of network engineers, system administrators, and other IT professionals.

Expanding beyond its traditional network management roots, SolarWinds showcased several product acquisitions and updates that signal a broader IT management focus. These include Log & Event Manager (formerly Trigeo), designed for affordable and straightforward security information and event management (SIEM), and Virtualization Manager (from the Hyper9 acquisition), which visualizes and optimizes virtualized environments. The demo of Log & Event Manager highlighted its out-of-the-box effectiveness, drag-and-drop rule creation, and ease of exploration via word clouds and visual event correlation. The Virtualization Manager demonstrated resource usage dashboards tailored by role, support for capacity planning, visual topology mapping, cost comparisons to Amazon EC2, and potential for chargeback and showback use cases in private cloud environments.

The presentation concluded with more technical discussions about the integration between Virtualization Manager and SolarWinds Storage Manager, as well as a deep dive into Storage Manager’s performance and capacity tracking capabilities. SolarWinds emphasized plans for greater interoperability between their products through a federated architecture that avoids a monolithic system yet facilitates seamless insights across tools. This approach prioritizes modular deployment, low complexity, and actionable data. The overall SolarWinds strategy showcased at Tech Field Day 7 reinforced its aim to simplify IT management while remaining deeply responsive to the real-world challenges and workflows of IT professionals.