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Connecting the Dots in Tech: Is This a Glimpse of the Future of IoT with Cisco & Kajeet? Dissecting Location Services with 802.11az from HPE Aruba, and Anticipating Mobility Field Day 11
You'll be on the edge of your seat as we anticipate the innovation showcase at Mobility Field Day 11, which promises to be a playground for tech aficionados with powerhouses like Celona, Juniper and Cisco stepping up to the plate. Meanwhile, we're keeping tabs on the satellite industry's game-changing moves, with SES's bold acquisition of Intelsat setting the stage for an epic showdown in the skies.
Get ready to explore the merging horizons of Wi-Fi and cellular as we dissect the strategic alliance between Cisco and Kajeet. This dynamic duo is on a quest to revolutionize IoT services, and we're here to map out the journey for you. The synthesis of Kajeet's Sentinel platform with Cisco's network expertise could very well be the blueprint for the future of network management, shaping a world where connectivity knows no bounds. As we delve into this partnership's implications, we're painting a picture of a new era where managing devices across the spectrum is as smooth as silk. But how real is it?
As we wrap up with finesse, we're turning the spotlight on the precision and promise of location services technologies. From the pinpoint accuracy of Bluetooth 5.1 to the trailblazing potential of the new HPE Aruba Wi-Fi 7 APs, we're dissecting the tech that's setting the standard for everything from personal security to global logistics. HPE Aruba gets a hat tip for their forward-thinking integration of these technologies, and we're here to connect the dots for you. Plus, don't miss out with upcoming insightful banter with Keith Parsons and check the pod for our interview with the planning visionary Payman – it's all happening right here, where the wireless world comes alive.
Drew Lentz, the Wireless Nerd. Today is April 30th. Oh, there goes the month of April, and this is Waves with Wireless Nerd. Let's talk about what's happened. There's so many good things happening. I just had an amazing conversation. You know what's so much fun about doing these interviews is I get to talk to people that I know or that I have known or that I've kept up with or that I've been introduced to. But I get to geek out with people that are as equally nerdy as I am. So stay tuned.
Speaker 1:After the show today we've got Mr Paymon is going to be on and he is from iKnow and we're going to be talking about their product and what they do with signal modeling not just signal modeling, but coverage modeling and coverage analysis and they've got a great piece of software that's out there. We learned a little bit about it at WLPC. It's been making its way into the industry. There's been some coverage of it already, and I just found out that they announced that they are going to be at Mobility Field Day. So coming up very soon, real soon. Now in May we've got Mobility Field Day 11. And that's going to be live from. I think we're going to be at the embassy suites in santa clara, salona, arista, ubiquity, juniper. I know cisco and fortinet are all going to be presenting, so I encourage you to tune in. That's may 15th and 16th. That's going to take place both days from about 9 am to about 6 6 pm. 4 pm, uh, depending on you know your time zone, but make sure you make plans to watch Mobility Field Day. It's going to be a spanking good time. Dev, drew Frenet, jen Huber, keith Parsons, kevin Franz and Mark Houts, muhammad Ali Ali Muhammad it's always fun to read his name forwards and backwards Rocky Gregory, ron Westfall, roel Dionisio and Sam Clements. We will all be there to take your questions and provide feedback to the people that are going to be presenting at Mobility Field Day 11. But one of those is going to be Paimon from INO, so I will be playing his interview following this week's episode of Waves by Wireless Nerd.
Speaker 1:So we're back from Wi-Fi now by Wireless Nerd. So we're back from Wi-Fi Now. And once again, thanks to Klaus and the team, ina and Klaus and the team over at Wi-Fi Now for having us in beautiful Sarasota, florida. I'm not going to talk too much about Wi-Fi Now specifically because we've got a special treat coming this week One of your beloved faces and I are going to get together and we're going to do a breakdown on what we saw at Wi-Fi Now. So Faces and I are going to get together and we're going to do a breakdown on what we saw at Wi-Fi Now. So I'm just going to drop that teaser there. You should be hearing from us, hopefully tomorrow, because I've got to fly to Nashville this week. I'm going to Nashville. It's going to be so much fun.
Speaker 1:But Wi-Fi Now was just a great conference. We got to see a lot of people from the industry, got to see some really old faces yes, they are old, and I have Mr Jimmy Connor it was good to see you, man People from back in the day. We had a reunion of sorts for people that have been in this industry for like 20, 25 years Also, and there we are in Sarasota drinking boat drinks. It was really good though. Lots of good things, lots of good content that was had there. Some key things were talked about. It was great to see some people that were presenters either from the chipset manufacturers or from people dealing with home networks, so it really spanned from the home network and the commercial networking side. There were a lot of good content, took a lot of photos, upload a lot of really great stuff. Stay tuned.
Speaker 1:We're going to be doing a full breakdown on Wi-Fi now, but that is not what I'm going to be talking about today, because we have some news to get into Hot off the presses and, of course, what I like to do is I try and keep this in the categories of what's new, what's now and what's next. So along those lines, what's new, hot off the presses? Scs is going to acquire intel sat for 3.1 billion dollars. So as I read through this article uh, fierce network is the first one I saw it on says the combined entity is going to bring together the growing portfolio of geo and meo satellites to basically threaten the leo constellations, like spacex and amazon's new project, kuiper. The transaction is now expected to close before the second half of 25. It's uh going to be cash and debt finance, but luxembourg-based satellite operator ses says it will buy 100 of intel sat for 3.1, bringing together two major geostationary earth orbit satellite operations.
Speaker 1:A mid rising competition from the Leo constellations at SpaceX and Starlink. Uh, spacex, starlink and Amazon. It's uh. It's interesting that market's heating up. There's lots of good carriers out there doing it. So this one's going to bring those two together. This isn't the first time that these two have attempted to get together. Uh, this isn't the first time that these two have attempted to get together, but now it looks like it's close. So the structure of this transaction is much simpler than it was before.
Speaker 1:Talking about the Intel acquisition by SES, so some consolidation happening in that industry, which is okay. Lots of good ones Waiting to see what's happening with Telestat and the guys up in Canada. I know they're going to do something. They've been talking about doing something for a while. Their project is launched, so let's see when those satellites start to pop up in the air. So that just happened.
Speaker 1:Um, also, straight from the desk of the fcc net neutrality, uh, has been reinstated now. Good, good for some people. Some carriers were a little hesitant about that. You know, at wi-fi now the former chairman, chairman for the fcc, mr jeepit Pai, was there. What a fun dude. I'm just going to put it out there. I know that elephant in the room is like people hated that guy, but there were also people that loved that guy and it was nice to see that he was just a human and he can sing really well, which I was not expecting. I wasn't expecting him not to sing really well, I guess, but I don't know. He popped up and started singing, sitting on the Dock of a Bay. There's a video of it on the internet, but Chairman Pai did a great job with that. So he was a little bit of a fan of making sure that net neutrality wasn't where it was.
Speaker 1:But the FCC voted to approve an order to reclassify broadband internet as telecommunication services under title 2 and, a result of that, blocking, throttling or engaging in paid prioritization will be prohibited. Chairman Jessica Rosenworcel couldn't bring the issue to a vote until a third democrat joined the panel last year. Remember they took a while to get a new person on there, but now they had them, they the vote through. It voted 3-2 along party lines and net neutrality is back. So that's the whole idea that you can't throttle, you can't block, you can't. You know, if you're a carrier, you can't show preference to different groups that are out there. So this is a big win for everyone that was fighting against it, fighting for reclassification and then fighting for this to happen.
Speaker 1:There's some pictures, great article, great write-up by Fierce Network. Fierce Wireless has it up there, some old pictures from when Brendan Carr presented graphics from 2014, reminding everyone of the controversy that erupted when protesters demanded stricter rules to enforce net neutrality and Chairman Pai got I mean, a lot of heat. There was a lot of stuff he got a lot of heat for. Got a lot of heat for this one. It was pretty bad. So that is in place now. Net neutrality long lived net neutrality yay. Unless you're the carrier, then boo. So, whichever way you see it from, uh, at least something's happening, which is good. It's good to have a full panel back on the fcc so you can actually move some stuff along.
Speaker 1:And one of the other things they moved along was fining AT&T, t-mobile and Verizon almost $200 million for illegally sharing customer location data, and this goes back to in 2019, they were found. Us carriers were found selling real-time location information from customer devices to third-party data aggregators, which led to locations and data being sold to private investigators, bounty hunters, law enforcement agencies, credit card companies and more. So good on the FCC cracking down, cracking down on that. Our communications providers have access to some of the most sensitive data information about us. These carriers failed to protect the information entrusted to them. Here we're talking about some of the most sensitive data in their possession real-time location information, revealing where they go and who they are said FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel. As we resolve these cases, which were first proposed by last administration see Chairman Pai the commission remains committed to holding all carriers accountable and making sure they fulfill their obligations to their customers as stewards of the most private data. So good on you.
Speaker 1:200 million dollars, good, and I hope they pay it and then they can use that to do all kinds of great stuff like maybe acp too soon, I don't know. There's still. This is the week of action for acp if. If you look up the National Digital Inclusion Alliance, let's see they are talking about the week of action. Take action, get involved. Please don't take my ACP. There's still a chance. There's still a chance that it can be saved, but right now it doesn't really look like it. So it works. There's been some great stories, some great stories about carriers and people that are putting together plans to help make sure that the people who are using those ACP vouchers can still get connectivity. So good on them. That's what's coming hot off the presses this week, ever since Wi-Fi. Now last week A couple of other things.
Speaker 1:This one's interesting. The coai uh, if you don't follow that the c, I had to look up the acronym the cellular operators association of india has urged the indian government to impose a ban on the sale of wi-fi 6e routers which utilize the six gigahertz spectrum. Um, because and these are people this is uh reliance, geo, airtel and vodafone idea raised concerns over the sale of these routers through various e-commerce platforms, saying that that is not authorized spectrum in India yet and people can buy them and they can turn it on and they can broadcast in that six gigahertz spectrum illegally. So the crux of the issue lies with the regulatory ambiguity surrounding utilization of a six gig spectrum. As for now, the government has not made a policy in India. So they're saying hey look, man, people can buy these things and turn them on. This goes back to that conversation about Wi-Fi jammers and all the different devices. You know what's happening with that because you know, oh, we're getting close. I know there's. I don't want to even I don't want to mention it because I don't want people to start thinking about a flipper band in the States. Man, I love my flipper Speaking of if you're in beautiful South Texas, I'm going to be doing a really cool talk on wireless security at our local B-Sides organization.
Speaker 1:It's putting on a B-Sides presentation, a day of fun for people that are interested in that type of stuff hacking and whatnot and engineering and reverse engineering and lockpicking and all that. So if you have a B-Sides in your neck of the woods, please make sure you support them and if you've got some knowledge to share, please do. I'll be sharing mine May 7th I believe it's May 17th. I'm going to be sharing that down here in beautiful South Texas talking about wireless security. Wireless security like making sure that people understand what the implications of what people can do with wireless are. And I'm not just talking like a flipper, I'm not just talking what you can do with Wi-Fi.
Speaker 1:One year I did this really cool spectrum painting thing and if you don't know what spectrum painting is, you can look up a really cool demo online. I think I published all mine to GitHub so I got to go pull that down and see if I can do it as a quick demo. But essentially I took a software-defined radio and if you look at the waterfall display of the spectrum in order to just blast everything as loud as I could, I thought what cooler way than to draw a picture on the spectrum, on the spectrograph. So, as you're watching the waterfall display, you see this image start to appear and I drew a big smiley face right in the middle of some unused spectrum, at very low power, only loud enough to creep into what I was doing. However, it's the idea that you know, for people who are trying to break the rules well, I mean, there really are no rules, so be careful.
Speaker 1:What's happening in the, in the wireless space? There's a lot, a lot of moving parts right now and I'll be talking to Scott or maybe some of the team. I don't know who I'm going to get on the line, but hopefully I'll be talking to the team at Airspace or, I'm sorry, at AirEye is to secure the airspace. They are the leader in network airspace control and protection in ACP is what they're calling it. So AirEye, so much fun. You've heard me talk about them over and over and over again. No-transcript their solution looks like. So, from a security perspective, you can never be too secure when it comes to the things that you can't see, like all these beautiful waves around us, so that's going to be interesting. Speaking of waves around us, there's a couple things, two things, here I wanted to talk about. One of them took me down a rabbit hole, so I'm going to talk about that one. Last, but this one popped up this week, rcr, which, if you're not a regular reader of RCR Wireless News, I pull a lot of content from there. It's great guys. They always have some fantastic reporting.
Speaker 1:James Blackman posted this article talking about Cisco and Kajeet combining cellular and Wi-Fi in managed enterprise IoT service. I am interested in this. Obviously, I'm talking about it. I'm a little interested in this. It says managed enterprise IoT provider Kajeet has a deal to integrate its Sentinel platform with Cisco's cellular gateway and mobility services platform. The pair hailed it as quote a strategic partnership. They also said in a statement they had only quote initiated discussions, but it sounds like it's a done deal, according to James Blackman over at RCR Wireless. The message is the US networking giant will take Kajeet's managed IoT solution to help the delivery quote, unquote delivery of its own managed wireless solutions. Man, there's a lot to unpack here, because I mean, this is like a beachhead To me. It sounds like a beachhead right when you turn around and you say, hey, we're starting up this conversation with this company. It's no big deal, it's just a company, kajeet Hold on, hold on, who is Kajeet?
Speaker 1:Do you know who Kajeet is? K-a-g-e-e-t. On their webpage it says bridging the digital divide with IoT connectivity and management solutions. Okay, not too bad If I remember them. I remember what they did with school buses putting Wi-Fi on school buses, doing private network Wait a minute doing private networks, doing private cellular networks, multi-carrier private cellular networks using eSIM and IoT connectivity and neutral host.
Speaker 1:And I'm sitting here going, well, wait a minute. I mean I'm not saying I don't have any information, by the way, that anyone else doesn't have and I'm just looking at the pieces of the puzzle laying in front of me, going, well, these guys do IoT connectivity and they do network as a service and they do neutral host. And you've got Meraki, who doesn't do those things, but they already have all these contracts and licenses to do monthly service. And then it's like, well, wait a minute, what can happen here? So I'm going to watch, watch this one. I'm definitely gonna keep my eye on this one because even if this, if this isn't signal that something's happening for meraki to enter into this space, this is at least a partnership entering into the space.
Speaker 1:And if you think back on what meraki does. They don't have a lot of partnerships like this. There's been some really cool you know the emoji tag stuff. There's a lot of really neat things that they've started to do over the course of the last couple of years, but nothing where you know it's like the brand. There's not a lot of brand mixing there.
Speaker 1:So to hear this one was kind of interesting. I'm not sure what it means, but Cisco and Kajeet will combine on innovative end-to-end services. They said that's in quotes. Their work will focus on joint solutions using the Sentinel platform and the full range of Cisco's mobility services platform, including its IoT control center services. Integration with Cisco's Meraki platform will enable Meraki's single pane of glass experience for both Wi-Fi and cellular devices. Hmm, think about that. Think about Meraki's single pane of glass experience for not only my wi-fi devices but also if I have a private cellular network. That would be kind of cool. That's not what it says, but that's what I'm thinking. Bin wine trap, chief executive at kajit, says this partnership transcends individual product and use cases. Of course it does. They have a whole slew of products and use cases. It signifies a shared vision for the future of IoT managed services where cutting edge hardware and connectivity seamlessly converge to deliver security, scalability and platform.
Speaker 1:This is going to be fun to watch. This is that I'm telling you. I mean, you just sit back and you go. Why don't we have one pane of glass for all of the wireless things? And I'm not saying that that's what's happening. I'm just saying that when you get two puzzle pieces that seem to fit together, if I'm physically doing a puzzle we do puzzles every year around Christmas time at my house You're sitting down, you have the puzzle and it's like man, this one looks like it fits. It looks Maybe if I turn it this way it'll fit Sometimes. Turn it this way it'll fit, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. But Kajeet is making waves out in the industry.
Speaker 1:There's a lot that's happening in PCN. There's a lot that's happening in private cellular networks and networks as a service, and Kajeet has this thing buried on their page that they do that. I know that they do and it just briefly mentions it. If you go to Kajeetcom K-A-G-E-E-Tcom and you scroll down, left-hand side says education, healthcare, public sector, private wireless networks, communication, transport Like okay, let me click on private wireless networks. Oh, that sounds interesting, let me learn about private wireless networks. And when you click on that, all of a sudden it pops up and it says Kajeet private wireless and Host Networks. This is an area that I am absolutely interested in Neutral Host Networks. There's a link to learn more about what Kajeet's doing there.
Speaker 1:Seamless Multi-Carrier Connectivity. Works with multiple cellular carriers, giving end users a seamless and transparent experience wherever they are in your building or on your campus, with robust implementation and operation through a single knock. Ubiquitous coverage. Break free from the constraints of limited coverage. Enjoy seamless connectivity across multiple service providers.
Speaker 1:Dude, I'm just. I mean look, I'm just saying I mean I gotta spell it out. Look at, when you have an announcement that it's like hey, khajiit's working with cisco and some stuff, it's just wait, well, hold on like pull, you know. I don't say pull the covers back. I don't know that it's like, hey, khajiit's working with Cisco and some stuff. It's just well, hold on Like pull, you know. I don't want to say pull the covers back. I don't know if that's even PC Whatever the PC term for. Take a deeper look at what Khajiit is and what they bring to the table. That's exciting. So that's not even the rabbit hole that I went down. That's a rabbit hole that I just went down with 19 of y'all fun people listening on Twitter.
Speaker 1:I appreciate the listens, as usual, I'll take this time to say thank you to all of my sponsors and everyone that makes this show happen. I'm humbled with the response that I've gotten, especially at Wi-Fi Now. So many people congratulating me on the podcast and the content creation stuff and all that. Lots of people hey, elephant in the room for me at least, right. Lots of people ask what am I going to do next? I have opportunities that I'm looking at that I think are fun in the industry, but I really am having a good time doing this. I'm having a good time producing content and you all are listening and I do appreciate that, and you're sharing it and you're continuing to listen and you're telling your friends about it, which is fantastic, and I'm seeing that on the downloads and the watches. So I really do appreciate it If you can help me take a run at doing this as something of a not a full-time career, but at least talking about it and having this be a larger part of what I do. You're encouraging me to do it by listening and by viewing, so I really appreciate it, man. It's a lot of fun. If you want to sponsor, drop me a line. I'm happy to do sponsorship stuff. You know what I posted on LinkedIn. I said, hey, I've run out of stuff to play with. Somebody ship me some toys, man. Ups showed up today and I've got some stuff coming in. So Infinite Cloud thanks, man. It's fun to meet you guys out at Wi, what they do and how they work. I've got some really cool stuff from Ivy Wave coming. There's a lot of really, really neat things that are happening and people are sharing that with me.
Speaker 1:No-transcript introduced. Well, hpe introduced their high-capacity Wi-Fi 7 access points and they say that they're introducing these to handle the IoT and AI search. Once again, mr James Blackman from RCR Wireless News. I wonder if he has a podcast or something. I've got to find out. I haven't even dug that deep into it, but man, he's got a cool little story here, right? Hpe has introduced its new Aruba Wi-Fi 7 access points in July. They deliver up to 30% more capacity.
Speaker 1:Blah, blah, blah. Wi-fi 7, blah, blah, blah. Ultra tri-band hardware technology. Utb ultra tri-band hardware technology, saying that they fully utilize 5 and 6 gig to automatically and continuously eliminate wasteful contention between the bands. Utb filters are enabled, eliminating channel interference on adjacent channels of 5 and 6 gig set HP. This allows the enterprises to use both bands simultaneously 5 and 6 gig, apparently doing some active filtering. Would you like to know more? Yes, I would like to know more. This 30% claim says it's the highest on the market when measured against the Wi-Fi 7 standard. Okay, that's great. They can do some wi-fi 7 stuff, fantastic.
Speaker 1:The new 730 series is an intelligent iot hub. Oh, okay, cool, 802, 15, 4, maybe. I know they had the stuff in the 600 series. All right, you know, I know that there's, that. There's other vendors that are working some of this, you know, technology into their gear. Let's see where is hpe going with an intelligent IoT hub. You ask they have built in hardware for a range of IoT protocols. Okay, good, great. Hey, james, hey Jimmy, jimmy Blackman, james Blackman Fantastic article writing, by the way, and perfect placement of the subscribe to the newsletter.
Speaker 1:So please visit rcrwirelesscom and read this article. It's phenomenal. It includes Bluetooth, dedicated Bluetooth and ZigBee radios for high-density and IoT environments. Dual USB ports for IoT devices using proprietary protocols. So if you want to stick something in there, fantastic, integrated non-permanent external antennas on the 730 series. Integrated, non-permanent? I don't know, I'll have to figure out what that means. For challenging RF frequencies. They provide high security for rushing new IT devices. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1:They've added access policy-based layer 7 controls to go with its clear IoT visibility. They've added this. They've added that. They've also added twice as much SD RAM and flash memory. Wait, what? Twice as much SD RAM and flash memory? Oh, application specific containers. Okay, here we go. This is where I start to get interested Containers and application containers on the access points.
Speaker 1:Having the access points act as compute right, taking these Wi-Fi 7 APs throwing some beefy stuff in there, having them run compute to support it says to support all of this great AI that people are doing Interesting. You know, one of the things we heard from at Wi-Fi Now was how they push processing further and further to the edge. So I'm keenly interested to see how HPE Aruba is taking this and what they're doing with those containers on the edge. Very interesting, very stimulating to the senses. I think it's going to be phenomenal. But that's again not the rabbit hole that I went down.
Speaker 1:This last line really got me as well. Hpe claims improved Wi-Fi positioning to an accuracy of one meter or less, with support for the IEEE 802.11 AZ standard. Wait a minute, new, new. I saw new Big, bright, shiny lights 802.11 AZ they put this in their radios. Dude, how sweet is this? I love location services, I love locationing and I love anything that pops up that's new about this. And I'm so bummed because I wish I would have known this. I could have reached out to my new friend at Lightpoint at Wi-Fi Now and had this conversation because and I hope I'm saying your name correctly Kushabu was there and I hope I'm saying your name correctly Kushabu was there. Kushabu Kalyani was at from Lightpoint was at Wi-Fi Now.
Speaker 1:And there's this great article by Eve Danil on how Bluetooth 5.1, ultra Wideband and 802.11 AZ compare to provide accurate location services. And if you read this and you scroll down, basically what they're doing is they're taking fine time measurement, that whole fine time you know they're taking. First they look at bluetooth and how it's the angle of arrival that helps you figure out where a device is, and that's cool, you know. And then they look at ultra wide band and they look at how ultra wide band has a has. A wider band can give you more accuracy when you're trying to figure out what's going on and it you know it. It figures out how much time of flight there is on a packet that goes back and forth to the radio. And then you start to look at fine time measurement which says, okay, well, the packet left at this time and it arrived. You know there was a time of arrival on the device. And then it sends that information back in another packet so that the AP knows oh well, it left at this time, it showed up at this time. That means it must be this far away. And then you look at 802.11az and how it's stacked on top of that. So not only does it do that fine timing measurement, but it does it using if I'm correct, it does it using some existing packets in there, so it's not having to add more overhead, it's using something existing to return the information about time of arrival. And then it says, well, dude, yeah, and especially if you're using larger channels, when you start to jump into larger channels, yeah, and especially if you're using larger channels, when you start to jump into larger channels up to 160 megahertz you can use this and that's cool. But imagine a 320 megahertz resolution channel and the accuracy that you could get when you're using that channel. So it's using larger channels from Wi-Fi 6 and 6E and 7. It's using MIMO because now what it's doing is not just sending the fine time measurement back in a single packet on a single radio, it's taking advantage of all of them so you can get multiple readings in an instant. So all of this is really great, because now you're digging down into accuracy. That is really really close.
Speaker 1:And the use cases for 802.11az and the use cases for you start with UWB and FTM, where it's like man, we can get down into the nitty-gritty. This is the idea that and intel talked about this at wi-fi now where you walk up to your computer and your computer authenticates you and turns on just by you being in close proximity to it, how does it do that? How does it do that magic right? Your door locks. Your door unlocks, like this door right behind me. It unlocks when I walk up to it based on my watch on my wrist or my device that's in my pocket, without me having to authenticate or do anything else, because it's using that ultra high resolution location services. So then you think about hotel rooms and you think about security and you think about secure facilities and you think about how this is not just going to be an authenticator to things, but how it's going to make devices communicate with each other. Like you know when, when, when a package gets close to a certain scanner and it goes off and it scans through. I mean, there's so many implications for using super high resolution real-time location services that this is just another addition to it. But the the fact that Aruba put this in HP Aruba put this into their new Wi-Fi 7 APs is really, really cool, in my opinion. I love that they're doing something that nobody else is doing, and they could be doing it, but I haven't heard of anyone else implementing 802.11az into their APs. So if you know of someone that is, please let me know, because I think that that's fascinating, anyway.
Speaker 1:So I went down this huge rabbit hole. Look up the article on Lightpoint. I'll throw a link on the social media channels about how Bluetooth 5.1, ultra Wideband and 802.11 AZ compare. They did just a bang-up job. Lightpoint did a bang-up job on this of writing this article, and then there's another one. There's a couple of articles that are out there. Mathworks has a really great article on it, but learn more about 802.11az and how you can take advantage of it.
Speaker 1:Very, very cool. All right, I think that's it, man. That's all I got today. You know. Thanks for sticking with me. I love seeing just the little numbers creep up, creep up, creep up.
Speaker 1:I do appreciate you jumping in on the feeds and asking questions. You know it's really fun to hear the feedback from you all. So if you have any questions, please feel free to post them. I'm trying to see if anybody's posting anything on LinkedIn, but that's okay, I'll be posting this up on all of the standard podcast channels. So if anyone has any feedback, let me know.
Speaker 1:You can always get me drew at drewlinscom, hit me on the social medias, at Wireless Nerd, and what I'm going to do now is I'm going to go ahead and transition over and I'm going to drop in the interview with Paimon from I Know, or you know, I Know I always mess up all of the names, but take a look, take a listen. Thanks for listening to Waves with Wireless Nerd this week and look forward to our Wi-Fi Now breakdown. I just got confirmation, so I'm just going to let you know. It's going to be Keith Parsons and I are going to be sharing a screen talking about what we saw out of Wi-Fi Now Should be pretty, pretty good. And then, right soon after that, you will see all of us at Mobility Field Day. Pay attention May 15th, 16th, 14th, 15th, 15th, 16th You're going to.
