Recently during a training I got a request from a participant what EasyMesh is and if it is interesting in some cases. I did some research on it and with this I wanted to share my results. What is EasyMesh ? We know meshing as a system that can cooperate and form a unified network. Meshing…
With this post I wanted to discuss how association and authentication looks like with 802.11ah. Below is the overview of how a S1G STA is connecting to an S1G AP on frame level, as you notice this is a WPA2-PSK authentication and it looks very similar to a an authentication in 2.4 or 5GHz. To…
When a wireless engineer is asked to design a wireless network for a company, obviously we need a decent set of business requirements first in order for the engineer to know what to design for. Once we have the floorplans for the building we can start performing the predictive modelling of this wireless network. However…
With 802.11ah-2016 being ratified, this is an overview of the similarities and differences of the beacon frame for beacon frames. Below is a capture performed on frequency 864MHz The first beacon in this capture is a full beacon with a length of 135 bytes. Just as with beacon frames in 2.4 and 5GHz, the S1G…
While we are all looking up into the 6GHz frequency range i was wondering what was happening on the other side of the frequency range, more specific in the Sub-1GHz space. On November 2, 2021 Wi-Fi Alliance started to certify products for Sub-1 Ghz operation. https://www.wi-fi.org/news-events/newsroom/wi-fi-certified-halow-delivers-long-range-low-power-wi-fi However the amendment was already published by IEEE on…
I will remember the first week of october 2019 as my introduction into the Wireless LAN Professionals. I got the chance to attend WLPC 2019 in Prague. When i’m at home and after working hours when the children have gone to sleep, i often listen to recordings of previous events such as Mobility Field Day…
When deploying Ruckus Networks with SmartZone architecture, the access points run by default in bridge mode. All traffic is being bridged onto the wired network in a VLAN, but in some situation you may want all traffic to be tunneled for enhanced control functions like QoS for voice traffic, PCI compliancy or centralized breakout
On 11 march 2019 Ruckus networks achieved the FIPS 140-2 compliance level, more specifically level 2. For Ruckus as a hardware vendor this is a big deal because this means they can deploy Ruckus wireless technology for the US Federal Government. Since US Federal Government has strict requirements for technology this is a benefit also…
With the release of SmartZone 5.0 Ruckus networks provided some nice features to upgrade W-Fi performance in busy environments. Ruckus hardware always had BeamFlex+ technologie integrated in the access points to deliver wireless signal to clients in a smart way. From SmartZone 5.0 Ruckus added some functionalities to provide even more enhancements
With the new august 2019 release of the Analysis document by Mathy Vanhoef and Eyal Ronen, it shows companies should be careful with the creation of SSID’s. Underneath the hood of WPA3 DragonFly handshake is assuring the security of the standard, it is supposed to be impossible to crack and find the password of the…
