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RUCKUS Networks brings you interesting topics with a wide range of guests to sit down and discuss all things that make up the product portfolio. We'll discuss topics including products from our portfolio, Wi-Fi, routing and switching and more! We can't wait to share with you what our teams are up to. You can contact the podcast team using the email address [email protected] for any feedback or ideas for future episodes. We would love to hear from you! To learn more about RUCKUS Networks ...
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Send us a text In this episode, we dive into the unspoken rules of networking—those best practices, standards, and protocols that guide how we build and manage networks. But what happens when sticking to the rules just doesn’t cut it? Jim sits down with Aaron Lee to explore the moments when bending or even breaking the rules leads to better outcome…
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Send us a text In this episode of the RUCKCast, we delve into why the term "expert" can be a loaded word in the Wi-Fi industry, particularly given the variability of RF environments. We discuss the challenges professionals face in mastering the ever-changing dynamics of radio frequencies and how RUCKUS Networks supports continuous learning and adap…
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Send us a text In this episode, we explore the paradox of Wi-Fi's adaptability in diverse RF environments. While designed to function in a wide range of conditions, this flexibility often results in suboptimal performance. We discuss how Wi-Fi's ability to adapt can lead to connectivity issues, interference, and reduced efficiency, yet still manage…
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Send us a text After a year of hiatus, the RUCKCast is back! Albeit with one less person to keep Jim in line (still unsure if that is good or bad, only time will tell), the RUCKCast is back in action! In this episode, Jim gives a quick update of what has been happening, and lays out what to expect for the rest of Season 5! Intro music by Alex Grohl…
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Send us a text In the 110th edition of the RUCKCast, Jim is joined by best-dressed WiFi celebrity Ferney Munoz, to discuss building WiFi communities and the upcoming WLPC in Valencia, Spain! Ferney's email: [email protected] The important website: thewifiofthings.com Intro music by Alex Grohl, available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsRWpx…
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Send us a text In our latest episode, Jim and John get to take not one, but two new dogs for a walk around the block. And by dogs, we mean two brand new and awesome WiFi 7 models. Tune in as our hosts take a peek at our newest outdoor and indoor 6GHz capable APs! Intro music by Alex Grohl, available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsRWpx8VJ_E…
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Send us a text In our latest edition to the "10 Things We Think You Should Know" series, Jim and John get into a hot topic: speed. How important is fast WiFi? Or is it not always about the speed? Find out how they feel about how much speed does-or does not-matter in WiFi! Intro music by Alex Grohl, available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs…
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Send us a text In this week's episodes, Jim and John take a question from their day to day and use it as inspiration for this conversation. If you've ever wondered what makes Beamflex and RUCKUS APs so special, here's a chance to learn a bit more. And no, Beamflex is not at all like beam forming ;) Intro music by Alex Grohl, available here: https:/…
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Send us a text In our latest, Jim and John get into the 7th part of the "10 things" series. This week, they take us through what security we need to know about relative to our Wi-Fi networks and those clients that occupy them. Intro music by Alex Grohl, available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsRWpx8VJ_E and https://pixabay.com/users/alexgr…
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Send us a text Jim and John are back for our latest edition of the 10 things they thing people should know about WiFi. In the current episode, the mutts talk about the importance of trusting but also verifying as it pertains to your wireless network deployments! Intro music by Alex Grohl, available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsRWpx8VJ_E …
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Send us a text As a bit of a tangent from our most recent show on defaults, Jim and John dive into the dirty secrets of residential WiFi, and why some of those defaults are why they are. More important, the guys may even offer a tip or two on how to make your home WiFi better! Intro music by Alex Grohl, available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch…
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Send us a text In the latest part in the "10 Things You Should Know" series, Jim and John dive into the wonderful world of WiFi defaults. Some are good, some are bad, and some just are. It depends, right? It's important to understand why you want to change what you want to change...because some defaults are better than others! Intro music by Alex G…
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Send us a text On our 101st RUCKCast, Jim and John take a bit of a dive into the wonderful world of power spectral density, or PSD. If you aren't familiar with this (or even if you are) now is a great chance to listen in on some information that should serve you well as you immerse yourself in the 6ghz spectrum! Intro music by Alex Grohl, available…
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Send us a text It's our 100th official RUCKCast...which is kind of cool. And this time, after a bit of a hiatus, the 10 things series returns! This time, Jim and John dive into the importance of good WiFi design. The devil truly is in the design details on this one, but a good design goes a long way...and you should not fix a bad design by way of s…
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Send us a text The boys are back for a fresh new show after a big conference disruption. Following time at WLPC for both, and then MWC for Jim, they are back together to discuss some highlights of both events, as well as the OTHER thing with C in it...because AFC has finally been approved...so now what? Intro music by Alex Grohl, available here: ht…
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Send us a text In our latest show, we are giving you a re-broadcast of when Jim and John went live at WLPC 2024. Yes, really. The pair took a big risk, and for the most part (minus one glitch) it worked. For those who attempted to listen to the remote stream live, this should be a lot better, as the microphone audio wasn't all carrying over through…
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Send us a text For the first time in over a year, Jim and John are together again, in person and recording another RUCKCast, live at WLPC 2024 in Phoenix. The guys nearly burned the midnight oil to get this one done, talking about the event so far, and a big bit of news-another live stream...AT WLPC! Intro music by Alex Grohl, available here: https…
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Send us a text In the 3rd installment of the "need to know about WiFi" series, Jim and John dive into the idea of understanding your requirements. As in, what do you need to deliver. What is the client asking for. What types of client devices are involved, and a lot more nuance. Or, in other words...the boys dive into the significance and depth of …
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Send us a text We intend to raise a RUCKUS at WLPC 2024 later in February, but Jim and John will not be doing it alone. Joining them this year will be Dayne Conner, Sean Hogston and Chris Ross. On this episode, the pack sits down to spend some time talking about the event, what they are excited for and what we can look forward to. Intro music by Al…
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Send us a text The 10 Things series continues, back for it's second thing we think you ought to know. This time, Jim and John do their best to convince you that as much as we all want more...in WiFi, more is not always better. In fact, sometimes, when it comes to RF, more can be quite detrimental to your WLAN network. So, tune in and find out what …
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Send us a text In our latest episode, Jim and John have the good fortune to spend time with the incomparable Mark Gibson to talk about all things AFC. Mark is able to shed light on a lot of the finer points about AFC, what is involved and what goes into getting it cleared for us to benefit from. The knowledge in this episode is tremendous, the 40 m…
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Send us a text In our latest edition of the RUCKCast, Jim and John kick off a new series dubbed "10 Things You Should Know About WiFi". This will launch a new part every two weeks, and the intent is to shed some light on ten topics within WiFi that are critical and yet, often overlooked or misunderstood by some. If you'd prefer to follow along, the…
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Send us a text It is our Season 4 Kickoff episode! That's right folks, Jim and John survived the holidays and are back and ready for an exciting and fun-filled 2024. Not a ton to get into on this one, just a lot to look forward to. The mutts cover topics such as any future live streams (after they pulled one off in 2023!), as well as a foray into Y…
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Send us a text Yes, we know we said we were done earlier in December until the new year. But we did promise a live stream too, and this is it. Sort of. This one truly does make more sense as the video version of it, as it allows you to follow along with Jim as he navigates an R550 from standalone code, all the way through to controller code and eve…
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Send us a text In a bit of a surprise episode, John flies solo and talks to Dave Burns (PLM over RUCKUS 1) and Rajiv Iyer (PLM for AI) about a nice present for our RUCKUS users just in time for Christmas. While the R770 was announced to the world earlier this year, this talk is all about the R770 now being supported within our RUCKUS 1 cloud platfo…
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Send us a text Hard to believe, but Jim and John survived a whole season, 35 episodes in all counting this one. And for this one, the mutts run down what a year it was, discussing our best shows, as well as their top fives. Plus, if that wasn't enough, there's more! These two take time to hype up the exciting content and surprises already planned f…
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Send us a text In this, our 88th RUCKCast, Jim and John are joined by a talent from one of our LPV partners. Alfredo Garicoche joins the mutts to discuss at a high level what technology challenges an LPV partner tackles on a regular basis, and just how RUCKUS assets can help them deliver a successful engagement. Intro music by Alex Grohl, available…
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Send us a text In another fine stray dog of an episode, Jim and John chose violence...kind of. It's a controller cage match, as our pair of mutts discuss the merits of virtual SmartZones, RUCKUS One, and RUCKUS Unleashed as controller platforms. 3 rounds wasn't quite enough, as things even required sudden death! Also...vote for the show (Jim and Jo…
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Send us a text In our 87th proper RUCKCast, Jim and John bring on Tim Dyer, VP extraordinaire at RUCKUS. Tim deals with our Network as a Service side of the house, among many other duties and responsibilities. More importantly, he taught us that heavy networking does exist, and it is not a form of engineering shaming. To watch Tim's interview with …
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Send us a text In this follow-up to last week's episode, Jim and John finish out their initial list of hidden, unsung RUCKUS features. Except, this week most of the features aren't really hidden, they just aren't talked about enough, or in the case of BeamFlex+, underappreciated. From BeamFlex to troubleshooting and more, listen in as the guys fini…
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Send us a text Yes indeed, it is a BONUS Stray Dog episode, where Jim and John take time out of their days to talk about WLPC past and future. That is, Jim's experience with WLPC Prague 2023, and what is yet to come in Phoenix in 2024. Jim's video about being wrong can be found here https://youtu.be/xC3WKR61XwA?si=lPX08wYW-Z6Zm1UE Videos for WLPC P…
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Send us a text When you use a product or products for years, you take things for granted. Sometimes, you don't even realize that how you know how to do things? It's not the same for someone using a different platform...so when new folks start using new hardware...it's worth looking at some of those hidden gems. This is where Jim and John come in, w…
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Send us a text In this, our 86th episode, Jim and John talk with Andrea Coppini, a RUCKUS SE from Spain. Andrea's name might not be well known, but the application he created certainly is well known in the RUCKUS world. Andrea is the creator of Crossbreeder, a software application that helps RUCKUS administrators do a lot of really neat things. Or,…
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Send us a text In our latest episode, Jim and John spend time talking with Eric Schroeder, who as it turns out...might not be so fond of wireless. Because, you see, Eric is a switch guy. And while we all know wireless is easy because, you know...no wires...we actually really need good wired networks. Which, as luck would have it, is something Eric …
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Send us a text In our 82nd episode of the RUCKCast, Jim and John learn that they are dinosaurs, thanks to AI. Or, maybe they think like dinosaurs...but did dinosaurs even think? And since no one reads these...what kind of dinos ARE Jim and John...these are important questions. But, in more serious news before the comet hits us, our Jurassic hosts a…
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Send us a text In our latest episode, Jim and John are joined by Tuofu Lu from RUCKUS PLM to introduce our first Wi-Fi 7 enterprise AP to the world, the RUCKUS Networks R770. You can read the press release by going to this link here https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231010838927/en/RUCKUS-Networks-Leads-The-Wi-Fi-7-Revolution-With-The-R770-A…
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Send us a text In yet another exciting episode, Jim and John get to spend time talking with RUCKUS Principal Systems Engineer Sean Hogston. And since there's like...nothing big on the horizon...the trio decides to spend time chatting about this little old thing called Wi-Fi 7, with the mutts leaning on Sean's years of experience to gain insight int…
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Send us a text In another great Stray Dog episode, Jim and John talk about Jim's dream of being a marching band drum star before switching gears and discussing the value of investing in designs for your Wi-Fi network...and what could happen if you don't re-design when upgrading to Wi-Fi 6e and beyond. Intro music by Alex Grohl, available here: http…
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Send us a text On our latest episode, Jim and John are joined by Al Brown, CEO of SmartWAVE Technologies, a RUCKUS Partner. And why are the mutts talking to the CEO of one of our partners? It's all about Wi-Fi 7 once again, and we get a partner's perspective about what's ahead of us for this new standard, and what they are excited about to provide …
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Send us a text In our latest episode, Jim and John learn that they cannot be replaced by AI (we tried!?) but they can be joined by Mittal Parekh to talk about all the things that AI can and cannot do for our most excellent modern networks. Intro music by Alex Grohl, available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsRWpx8VJ_E and https://pixabay.com…
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Send us a text Our mangy mutts Jim and John are back from a vacation (really, just John), and it's time to talk about how Wi-Fi doesn't take a vacation (or why we should leave our toys, tools and laptops at home!). Intro music by Alex Grohl, available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsRWpx8VJ_E and https://pixabay.com/users/alexgrohl-25289918…
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Send us a text In our latest and greatest, Jim and John spend more time with esteemed SE Ryan McCaigue, discussing all things relative to wired and wireless networking in the classroom environment! Intro music by Alex Grohl, available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsRWpx8VJ_E and https://pixabay.com/users/alexgrohl-25289918/…
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Send us a text In our latest episode, Jim and John sit down with special guest Ryan McCaigue to talk about every kid's most favoritest time of the year...back to school! For our teaching trio, they discuss key factors in deploying and supporting in-school Wi-Fi that will earn them that A+! To learn more about client capabilities, check out "The Lis…
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Send us a text In this week's episode, Jim and John have a spirited discussion about...favorites. As in, what are their favorite APs and controller platforms to run them on. There are no right or wrong answers, but if you ask Jim... To see the entire AP lineup, check out this link https://www.ruckusnetworks.com/products/wireless-access-points/ To l…
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Send us a text In this totally sort of not really impromptu hype session, Jim and John do a little pre-registration chat about the 2023 WLPC-Prague event. Registration opens August 15th, with a number of RUCKUS staff planning to be present...and presenting! You can check out the event website here for more information on the deep dives and presenta…
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Send us a text In our latest episode, Jim and John spend time with Bart Giordano, President of NICS and GM of RUCKUS Networks, diving into the upcoming Wi-Fi 7 goodness. To read more about Wi-Fi 7, check out this link here https://www.ruckusnetworks.com/solutions/technology/wi-fi-7/ To learn about CommScope Sentry, check them out here https://www.c…
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Send us a text On our latest RUCKCast, Jim and John are joined by Adam Cutts to have fun with some Security Story Time! Security is more than one device or one service, it's more of a mindset and everything thing can either contribute to, or expose holes, in your network security posture. Listen is as they discuss tactics, theories, and challenges …
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Send us a text In our latest episode, the Johns outnumber the Jims, as John Murphy joins our hosts to dig more into the RUCKUS WAN Gateway. John (Murphy!) first presented on this at the recently concluded Mobility Field Day. You can see his presentation in the link below. https://techfieldday.com/video/ruckus-wan-gateway-with-john-murphy/ Follow th…
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