In this episode of the Community Broadband Bits podcast, we get an introduction to what this week’s guest calls “the most Southern of protocols” — Wi-Fi. Here to guide us is Heather “Mo” Williams, Manager of Solutions Engineering at Ruckus Networks, Wi-Fi engineer for Black Hat conferences, and co-host on the podcast This Week in Enterprise Tech.
During her conversation with Christopher, Mo shares her background with Ruckus Networks and her family’s personal experience with poor connectivity in rural Texas. Then, Mo and Christopher discuss the history of Wi-Fi, the basics of how it functions, and what it means to operate over unlicensed spectrum. Mo explains how network congestion and the proliferation of Wi-Fi-enabled devices challenge engineers.
Christopher and Mo talk about the overblown hype around 5G technologies. They also dig into the Federal Communications Commission’s wireless policies, and Mo commends the agency for it’s recent decision to open up more spectrum for Wi-Fi, calling it a “game changer.”
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Thanks to Arne Huseby for the music. The song is Warm Duck Shuffle and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.
Image of public Wi-Fi via PublicDomainPictures.net
This article was originally published on ILSR’s MuniNetworks.org. Read the original here.
