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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”…
I was bored Sunday night and had a recent Twitter thread going through my head regarding formatting Access Point MAC addresses, so I figured let me see if I can figure it out. Task – Convert AP MACs from A1B2C3D4E5F6 to a1:b2:c3:d:4:e5:f6 There are few ways to accomplish this. You can use MS Excel and…
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…
I recently attended the very first Juniper-MistAI event in Las Vegas. Event was short (total of 1.5 days) yet very insightful, engaging and super helpful for the customers and partners. I’d like to share some quick thoughts. Event took place at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Check-in process was painless, and the staff was very…
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…
It seems there isn’t a vendor out there that makes creating a P2P Mesh link easy. Aruba controller configuration can be complicated and creating a P2P mesh link seemed like a daunting task (until, of course, you do it enough and get used to it, then everything is easy). I found a few decent articles…
During my recent Wireless Adjuster II class I got introduced to Airtool Pi (new tool created by Adrian Granados). If you have been using Airtool or Airtool 2, you will certainly love this, cost is $14.99 and it is worth every penny. All you need is a WLANPi (Neo 2 is what I used; you…
This past week I attended the Wireless Adjust II class taught by Devin Akin. I recall attending the very first class back in 2020, that was a beta class, and we all had a great time attending that class. You can read more here. I knew that Devin had added lots of new content in…
I have written about Wyebot and some features you can use in my previous blog post. I also talked about a couple of use case scenarios. In this post, I want to review correlation and troubleshooting steps using the Wyebot interface. Let’s look at one of the Wyebot sensor. Below, I summarize all the issues…
AI/ML, Automation are few terms that every vendor is talking about in the tech industry. Each vendor has their own flavor of AI/ML engines with different feature sets. Regardless of their path end goal is “better end user experience”. Managing and operating a wireless network for thousands of users across different sites can be quite…