I was introduced to Mist in 2019 during the WLPC 2020 event. I was impressed with all the features; however, one missing piece was their NAC solution. I had an opportunity to discuss the NAC solution with Mist; Mist understood the importance of their own NAC solution. Juniper Networks acquired WiteSand (a cloud-native, zero-trust, NAC…
Category: Wireless
Hamina Network Planner – Site Import
Features update emails are fun to read and they can be very exciting. A recent email from Joel on all the hard work these fine folks at Hamina are doing and new features caught my attention. One of the features I have been waiting on and was looking forward to try was Integration with Mist….
Hamina Network Planner – Reporting
Reporting is a crucial part of any project work. Different tasks require different kinds of reporting. When working on any wireless or wired project I usually have to go through different iterations. Reports can include lots of content, such as text and graphics. This can make some reports large, 10 MB or more. This leads…
#WLPC2023 Experience
February is an exciting time for wireless engineers all over the world because of the WLPC conference in Phoenix, AZ each year. My first one was in 2020 and I wrote a little about my experience here. This year was a little different because I was not taking any boot camps. Nonetheless, I was very…
My First WLPC 2023 Presentation
My very first ever TenTalk and presentation ever. Please feel free to provide me feedback good or bad on the content as well as the way I presented.
Hamina Network Planner is finally out
I believe somewhere around Mid 2021; I received a message from Jussi about setting up some time to discuss some stuff. We had our call setup, the day arrived, I had a couple of my coworkers, Brian Powers and Robert Haviland, on the call as well. We went through the usual introductions and discussed some…
Mist Updates – BYoD PSK Portal
Mist folks were busy, and as always, pushed out some cool updates past Thursday. Here is a quick list that caught my attention and I was waiting for. Client onboarding – PSK Portal VRF Configuration Global Application Policies Custom Virtual Routers (SRX) For full details, please see this link “BYoD” is something many organizations struggle…
MAC Format – Part 2 (Menu)
Previously I wrote a quick post on formatting MAC Addresses using Python and a csv file. In this post, I used Pandas and MS Excel (since this data ends up in Excel most of the time). In my previous post, I used the “join” function; but Keith Miller suggested I should look into the “macaddress”…
Mist AP 12
I finally had a chance to get Mist AP 12 in my hand and test out the functionality. Before I get into that, let’s take a quick look at the access point features and what is the box. Mist AP 12 Features: Spatial Streams: 2×2:2 Mounting: Wall plate/Desktop Radio: 2.4 GHz/5 GHz Scanning: Dedicated third…
Troubleshooting with MistAI – Roaming
Roaming for wireless clients is very important. Some smaller environments pay little attention to roaming; while some environments require near perfect roaming and can’t afford for wireless clients to drop a connection and then reconnect. Wireless engineers spend lots of time figuring out how to deploy a wireless network that will offer seamless roaming. And…