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Why schools should do a site survey before deploying Wi-Fi
Bradley Chambers and Fraser Speirs - co-hosts of the weekly Out of School podcast - discuss Bradley’s school Wi-Fi site survey, digital signage for your school, Fraser’s "Teaching and Creating with...
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How to plan a Wi-Fi deployment: Coverage and Capacity
When planning to deploy a wireless network, you must first determine the number of clients you expect to serve, the type of traffic you expect on the network, the amount of throughput you want the...
View ArticleAerohive is buzzing about HP’s Acquisition of Aruba
What an exciting morning at the Hive! First let’s take a moment to congratulate our friends over at Aruba Networks. This is a very small valley. We all have friends at many of the competing companies,...
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How to plan a Wi-Fi deployment: Performing a predictive site survey
This blog is the second in a 3-part series summarizing these initial steps up to the point where you have gathered network needs and assessed RF environment conditions.After gathering information about...
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How to enable mobility while protecting your WLAN
With the ever-increasing demand for mobility, and wireless rapidly replacing Ethernet as the primary access method onto the network, organizations are cautious of the security challenges that lie...
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How PPSK keeps your network and private information safe
Though using IEEE 802.1X is the most secure approach to Wi-Fi authentication, this method is typically only implemented for devices managed by IT staff - where they have control over the domain...
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Webinar: How technology transforms teaching and learning
With 1:1 programs, expanded digital learning initiatives, and greater E-Rate funding for schools across the nation, the Center for Digital Educationis taking a closer look at how schools are empowering...
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Three budget-friendly options for building a school website
A school website has gone from a nice to have to a central piece of a school’s marketing message in the span of a decade. Even in just the past few years, it has gone from a desktop-driven world to a...
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'Spring forward' product announcement from Apple
Bradley Chambers and Fraser Speirs - co-hosts of the weekly Out of School podcast - discuss Apple's recent product announcement and weigh in on the Apple watch.
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St. Paddy's Day and Happy Anniversary at the Hive!
March is an important month for the Hive! It is our anniversary month as well as St. Paddy’s Day. Employees of Aerohive gathered to celebrate with good food, good drinks and good friends. We celebrated...
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Solving the personal BYOD and guest access challenge
We are excited about the new Aerohive iOS app. Why? Because it brings the ID Manager service to your iOS device. Now you can easily register guest and personal devices and grant temporary access to...
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4 ways an IT department can be teacher friendly
If you are in IT in education, you know that it can be a challenging career path. You are dealing with highly technical things and making them accessible to non-technical folks.IT folks, sometimes,...
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Feeling nostalgic about Wi-Fi? This will bring back memories
Before I came to work for Aerohive, I ran my own Wi-Fi consulting and training company for 10 years. Over the years I worked with WLAN products from pretty much all the WLAN vendors and acquired a lot...
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Designing a WLAN for IoT? Define your requirements first
In my first post, How to design your WLAN for IoT in eight smart steps, I summarized how to design your wireless network to support the Internet of Things (IoT) and the explosive growth in number of...
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How Wi-Fi is changing P.E. in schools
How is technology invading and transforming the PE classroom? Listen to Bradley Chambers and guest - Aussie blogger and educator Jarrod Robinson - discuss in this week's Out of School podcast.
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A look back at legacy client devices and Wi-Fi networks
This is a second post in a series about Wi-Fi dinosaurs that are now mostly extinct. As mentioned in the original Wi-Fi Nostalgia blog, I have been cleaning out my office and purging myself of...
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How to plan a Wi-Fi deployment: Performing a manual site survey
This blog is the final post in a 3-part series summarizing how to deploy Wi-Fi up to the point where you have gathered network needs and assessed RF environment conditions. By performing predictive...
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Rethink authentication to create an intelligent network
Over the course of Wi-Fi networking history, authentication has remained relatively unchanged.Most Wi-Fi networks require a password, some require username and password, and even fewer use...
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Wait on 802.11ac Wave 2 until mobile devices catch up
The dust around 802.11ac Wave 1 has barely settled, yet in true Silicon Valley-style, the hype has already started around what's next: That would be 11ac Wave 2. Should you care? Does Wave 2 affect you...
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What does 802.11ac "wave 2" mean and do you need it?
In the past month, I’ve given several talks on 802.11ac, and I’ve been receiving many of the same questions repeatedly. So, I’m going to turn them into another blog series on 11ac, with the first entry...
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