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Allen Huotari

Product Management

RF Excellence and Wireless Innovation

Allen Huotari has been working in the wireless communications and networking industry for nearly 30 years. His experience  has encompassed satellite, cellular, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi across military, consumer, service provider, and enterprise environments. A couple of years ago a friend and colleague encouraged him to make the leap from design engineering to product management. As a result, he was invited to join the Enterprise WLAN team in Cisco Systems. In his current role, he specializes in RF Excellence and Wireless Innovation, investigates emerging technologies, and best of all gets to hang out with a bunch of totally cool and really smart people. Among the accomplishments he is most thankful for are 32 patents (and counting), and raising three remarkably gifted children with his wife of 30 years.

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June 5, 2015

NETWORKING

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Beacon Monitoring (Detection, Location, and Reporting)

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One of the most captivating technology use cases to emerge in recent time is the use of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices (also see Bluetooth Smart™), distributed in a venue, to provide proximity services advertisement and discovery. The best known instantiation of BLE is the Apple iBeacon (although as a branded technology, this is literally […]

May 29, 2015

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Enhancing HDX: Improved Mitigation of Wi-Fi Interference through Wi-Fi-Triggered Event-Driven Radio Resource Management …

2 min read

Cisco Systems is announcing a new set of features that enhance its HDX (High Density Experience) suite. This blog is the fourth in a series that explains the new features that comprise the enhancements to HDX. The first three blogs in the Enhancing HDX series are here and here and here. The rapid and massive […]

May 19, 2015

NETWORKING

Enhancing HDX: Optimized Roaming extended with 11v BSS Transition Management

7 min read

Cisco Systems is announcing a new set of features that enhance its HDX (High Density Experience) suite. This blog is the third in a series that explains the new features that comprise the enhancements to HDX. The first blog in the Enhancing HDX series is here. The second blog in the Enhancing HDX series is […]

May 15, 2015

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Enhancing HDX: Introducing FlexDFS – Not All DFS Solutions Are Created Equally

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Cisco Systems is announcing a new set of features that enhance its HDX (High Density Experience) suite. This blog is the second in a series that explains the new features that comprise the enhancements to HDX. 5 GHz is a great place to operate a WLAN. There is ample spectrum, and it’s far less crowded […]

May 8, 2015

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Enhancing HDX: Introducing Dynamic Bandwidth Selection – Automatically Choosing the “Best” Channel Width

3 min read

Cisco Systems is announcing a new set of features that enhance its HDX (High Density Experience) suite. This blog is the first in a series that explains the new features that comprise the enhancements to HDX. Every advancement in Wi-Fi technology comes with corresponding complexities and tradeoffs.  You just don’t get something for nothing. For […]

April 27, 2015

NETWORKING

What is 802.11r? Why is this Important?

4 min read

Fast BSS Transition 802.11r (often abbreviated to Fast Transition or FT) describes mechanisms by which a mobile device can reestablish existing security and/or QoS parameters prior to reassociating to a new AP.

April 13, 2015

NETWORKING

Why the 802.11k and Neighbor Report are Important?

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A lot of air time (pun intended) has been provided for the PHYsical layer amendments to the 802.11 standard. These would include 802.11n, 802.11ac, 802.11ad, and others. These amendments tend to get a lot of publicity because they have increased the speed/throughput of 802.11 over the years (from 1-2 Mbps in 1997 for the original […]

October 13, 2014

NETWORKING

Cisco Continues Thought Leadership With Products for Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Passpoint Release 2

2 min read

Last week, the official launch of the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Passpoint™ Release 2 interoperability program from Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA) revealed the next chapter in enabling mobile client devices to easily connect...

January 27, 2014

NETWORKING

HDX Blog Series #4: Optimized Roaming

5 min read

Editor’s Note: This is the last of a four-part deep dive series into High Density Experience (HDX), Cisco’s latest solution suite designed for high density environments and next-generation wireless technologies....

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