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Meraki White Paper: Wireless LAN Security

While security is important for all networks, wireless LANs deserve special consideration since they are subject to an increased level of risk. First, since wireless extends beyond the walls of an organization, physical security is less effective than with wired networks. Second, wireless network abuse has become more common, with...

Tags: Security, Network, WLAN, Wireless, Meraki, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2009-03-01

Meraki seeks resellers for its new solar-powered Wi-Fi mesh device

Yes, I am officially one of those people addicted to mobile e-mail, text messages, mobile Facebook. Whatever. Which is why I had to blog about the existence of a new solar-powered Wi-Fi mesh device that promises to fulfill the connection addiction of people like me. Meraki Solar,...

Tags: Solar Panel, Meraki, Mesh Networking, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-12-09

Painful lesson in OLPC mesh networking for Mongolians

Painful lesson in OLPC mesh networking for MongoliansYou all Jump around too much!!The biggest problem I see with the Mesh is that a hop basically jumps around from computer to computer looking for a way back home. That is a lot of jumping. Then you have the fact...

Tags: NETWORKING, Meraki, One Laptop Per Child project, network, mesh networking, mesh

Discussion threads 2008-01-30

Additional Resources

Frankston: Who's pirating bandwidth these days? You or AT&T (and peers)

Bob Frankston (co-inventor of the electronic spreadsheet) has been tirelessly spending the last few years trying to shed light on the fact that there's plenty of network capacity out there and that anybody particularly the carriers and ISPs that tell you something different are full of it. They're just reserving...

Tags: Bandwidth, AT&T Corp., Piracy, Bob Frankston, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-09-07

Muni Wi-Fi in trouble unless cities cough up some (big) bucks

Muni Wi-Fi in trouble unless cities cough up some big bucksI predicted this from the startThis whole Muni WiFi thing was hyped beyond belief because many people thought they could "get something for nothing". As I mentioned in previous talkbacks, someone has to pay for all the expenses that...

Tags: Wireless LANs, municipal Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi

Discussion threads 2007-08-16

The realities of municipal Wi-Fi

The realities of municipal Wi-FiWireless Mesh Network Makes All Things PossibleMunicipal Wifi provides access to 21st century education. Most would want to back up and substitute 'computer' for the phrase, 'municipal wifi'. Wireless mesh network provides access to 21st century education. Most would want to back up...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Wireless Mesh Network, theory, municipal Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi, wireless, mesh networking

Discussion threads 2007-07-17