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The world is going mobile--have you seen those stats? In fact, you probably have some wireless infrastructure deployed in your business.
Have you always imagined getting more out of your Wi-Fi? Do you ever wonder if you can generate some revenue off of your enterprise infrastructure? Well do we have a treat for you! This Thursday, November 15th at 10AM PST, we have an awesome webinar where we’ll discuss how you can leverage wireless technologies to help you more effectively engage and better understand your customers. What’s more, we’ll be going over actual customer stories of how they used these technologies and what they got out of it. Sound good to you? Click on the image to register.
There will also be an opportunity for Q&A. Overall, we’ll cover:
- How the new technology innovations are helping to enable today’s connected lifestyle
- How your existing wireless network can accommodate these trends and become a tool to generate new revenue
- How enterprises and service providers are deploying and benefiting from this technology
What’re you waiting for? Register today!
Tags: access point, Cisco, consumer, hospitality, mobility, network, retail, webinar, wireless, wlan
As a futurist and technologist, I’m an optimist. I view technology through the lens of how it can help people.
From this perspective, there is no better time to be alive than now. That’s because we are entering an era where the Internet has the potential to dramatically improve the lives of everyone on our planet—from accelerating the discovery of cures for diseases, to understanding climate change, to enhancing the way companies do business, to making every day more enjoyable.
Already, the Internet has benefited many individuals, businesses, and countries by improving education through the democratization of information, allowing for economic growth through electronic commerce, and accelerating business innovation by enabling greater collaboration.
So what will the next decade of the Internet bring?
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Tags: climate change, connecting, Connections Economy, IBSG, Internet of Everything, internet of things, IoE, IoT, Metcalfe, network, network effects, unconnected
October 12, 2012 at 2:59 pm PST
Earlier this year at a release party of Talking Back to Facebook, Chelsea Clinton asked the audience an important question facing the parents of today’s tech-savvy kids: “How do we help cultivate curiosity about content … while also protecting kids so that every kid gets to be a kid …?”
Scams have become a lot more complicated than the old standard: “I’m a Prince from [_____], please wire me 2 million dollars!”, and viral methods of stealing identities and money are more sophisticated than ever. Adults have good reason to be concerned about how publicly available their personal information is over the net. Companies like SafeShepherd are committed to helping their clients remove their personal information from publicly accessible databases. Other resources, like A Platform for Good, have been created to help teach parents, teachers, and kids about efficient online safety practices. The objective here is to teach our children smart and safe web practices.
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Tags: internet, network, SecureX, security
October 12, 2012 at 5:00 am PST
Microsoft will launch Windows 8 in late October. Along with a slew of other features, it will be among the first to support the 802.11w standard to protect Management Frames for client devices on Wi-Fi networks.
Customers running old Cisco unified releases (between 4.2 to 7.2) in local, Flex or mesh mode will run into an interoperability bug (CSCua29504, to be exact) that prevents 802.11w enabled clients from connecting to a Cisco WLAN with Management Frame Protection (MFP) enabled. This bug does not affect customers running autonomous access point deployments or customers running Cisco unified releases older than 4.2.
What are the possible solutions for you?
1. Please upgrade your production environment to one of the following releases, which will interoperate with Windows 8.
- 7.3.101.0
- 7.2.111.3
- 7.0.235.3
2. Roll back to pre-windows 8 drivers as identified in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article.
3. Fall back to TKIP
4. Sign up for a beta release for Cisco’s upcoming feature release 7.4 (beta available now!) that supports the 802.11w feature in local mode.
What is 802.11w ?
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Tags: 7.0, 7.2, 7.3, 802.11w, access point, autonomous access points, beta release, IEEE, interoperability, management, management frame protection, management frames, MFP, network, unified release, WFA, wi-fi, Windows 8, WNBU
Last week at Interop New York, we unveiled theAironet Access Point 2600 and Aironet Access Point 1600. They join the Aironet Access Point 3600 (launched earlier this year) to make up Cisco’s second generation “G2” enterprise class 802.11n Cisco Aironet Access Points, a key component of Cisco’s Unified Access solution: one network.
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Tags: 1600, 2600, 3600, access point, Aironet, network, wireless, wlan
