Ruckus Announces Cloud-Based WiFi Services

Ruckus Wireless unveiled a Cloud-based Smart Wi-Fi Access Management Service (SAMS) that gives organizations the power to manage and monetize Wi-Fi services from a ‘point-and-click’ Cloud-based portal.

What’s next with 802.11

The new IEEE 802.11-2012 revision has been expanded significantly by supporting devices and networks that are faster, more secure, while offering improved Quality of Service and, improved cellular network hand-off. IEEE 802.11 standards, often referred to as “Wi-Fi®,” already underpin wireless networking applications around the world, such as wireless access to the Internet from offices, homes, airports, hotels, restaurants, trains and aircraft around the world. The standard’s relevance continues to expand with the emergence of new applications, such as the smart grid, which augments the facility for electricity generation, distribution, delivery and consumption with a two-way, end-to-end network for communications and control.

5 Steps to Better Wifi [InfoGraphics]

In the age of BYOD that IT now lives in, ubiquitous Wi-Fi is pretty much a given (or, at least, an expectation). What’s not a given, though, is the Wi-Fi network’s performance.

I thought you’d find this infographic relevant to some of the challenges you face in your own organization. The 5 principles of Wi-Fi optimization are explained in it, and hopefully will offer some great tips on how to ensure your network performs to expectations, even when facing heavy loads.

Multi-user MIMO Routers Announced

Asus’s new 802.11ac router, the RT-AC87U, is the first commercial router that supports Wave 2 802.11ac, using a chip from Quadtenna.

Wave 2 uses multi-user multiple-input-multiple-output, or MU-MIMO. While MIMO can transmit multiple parallel streams of data over the same spectrum, until now those paralled streams couldn’t go to multiple people simultaneously.

How to Change Your Wi-Fi Router Channel to Optimize Your Wireless Signal

If you live in an apartment complex you’ve probably noticed more than just the passive-aggressive network IDs that your neighbors use—very likely you’ve had problems with your wireless connections dropping out, or just not being as fast as you’d like. Here’s a quick fix.

Of course, this isn’t the only thing you need to do to make sure your wireless network is running at maximum speed, but for today’s lesson we’ll show you how to pick the right channel to make sure you can stream the new Futurama episode to your laptop without skipping.