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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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
Whenever I log into my Juniper-Mist Dashboard, I am always excited to see “Announcing New Features” message. See full updates here. I would love to point out couple of features that I have been waiting for that Juniper-Mist implemented: Sponsored Guest Access: I wrote a post previously on “Sponsored Guest Access and Self Registration“. In…
My last post was about creating a Guest SSID in Mist Dashboard with some BYOD self register and self sponsor features. I mentioned few requirements in there; one of them was to enable and disable the SSID. Let me elaborate a bit more on that. I can log into my laptop, Mist Dashboard and disable…
Guest access is an essential part of WLAN deployments these days. From an average user to technical users, when they are traveling, dining, attending business meetings and/or conferences, etc; users are always looking for Wi-Fi access and how to use it. Network operators, engineers have to think about Wi-Fi Guest access early on during the…
Currently Mist dashboard allows yours to download the Access Point inventory. This is not the case when you are under the Access Point screen and want to download the Access Point names along with all the columns shown. There are about 67 columns available; I like to primarily utilize the following columns: Status Name MAC…
Sometimes we all have to deal with replacing an access point. How easy or difficult it is to replace an access point is the question. This short post is about my experience with replacing a Mist access point. What is worth noticing is that Mist Technical Support team found an issue with one of the…