It’s been many years since Meraki and Aerohive swaggered onto the WLAN scene and showed the wireless world that the cloud was a viable option for managing networks. Both companies have been bought by bigger fish (Cisco and Extreme, respectively) and cloud-managed network skeptics have been proven wrong as “legacy” WLAN vendors have slowly built their own cloud-based offerings. But we’re talking about the infrastructure vendors here… The WLAN support tool space has been much slower to follow with viable cloud options, but it’s safe to say that this side of the industry has caught up nicely.
I spent a bit of time in the San Jose earlier this year, and got an eyeful of cloud capabilities from both MetaGeek and NetAlly. The setting was Mobility Field Day 4, and both vendors advanced the message that the cloud certainly brings added value to their offerings. This dovetails with other recent product developments from competing vendors, and it all adds up to a bigger story worth considering.
MetaGeek is one of those long-running wireless tool companies that has as much as any to do with the overall early success of the professional WLAN space. Not only did they provide affordable, easy to use spectrum and packet analysis utilities, they also did a great job educating their customer base on what separates good Wi-Fi from bad through the lens of spectrum analysis. But even they would admit they had a few stagnant years, and many of us as customers wondered if they were “done”. Judging by their latest hardware tool options that embrace mobile devices, updated software, and the Rampart cloud-hosted dashboard (below), I’d say the company is back with a vengeance.
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I spent a bit of time in the San Jose earlier this year, and got an eyeful of cloud capabilities from both MetaGeek and NetAlly. The setting was Mobility Field Day 4, and both vendors advanced the message that the cloud certainly brings added value to their offerings. This dovetails with other recent product developments from competing vendors, and it all adds up to a bigger story worth considering.
MetaGeek is one of those long-running wireless tool companies that has as much as any to do with the overall early success of the professional WLAN space. Not only did they provide affordable, easy to use spectrum and packet analysis utilities, they also did a great job educating their customer base on what separates good Wi-Fi from bad through the lens of spectrum analysis. But even they would admit they had a few stagnant years, and many of us as customers wondered if they were “done”. Judging by their latest hardware tool options that embrace mobile devices, updated software, and the Rampart cloud-hosted dashboard (below), I’d say the company is back with a vengeance.
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