Comments on: Fluke to Acquire AirMagnet http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/08/14/fluke-to-acquire-airmagnet/ Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:57:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Mikko Kaarela http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/08/14/fluke-to-acquire-airmagnet/comment-page-1/#comment-75438 Mikko Kaarela Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:18:34 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=37735#comment-75438 This acquisition reflects the on-going trend to gradually replace cable-LAN with Wi-Fi (don't forget Motorola/AirDefense deal either). That in turn requires robust End-to-End Quality of Service monitoring. The specific challenge in this area relates to the radio communication between the Access Point and the wireless client. In particular, intermittent radio disturbancies cause a lot of headache and cost to IT Network Support and lack of 7x24 QoS monitoring effectively prevents use of WLAN for business critical applications, not to mention migration from LAN to WLAN. Anyone interested in these trends should also take a look at the Finnish Red Herring Gobal 100 Award winner 7signal (see www.7signal.com). This acquisition reflects the on-going trend to gradually replace cable-LAN with Wi-Fi (don’t forget Motorola/AirDefense deal either). That in turn requires robust End-to-End Quality of Service monitoring.

The specific challenge in this area relates to the radio communication between the Access Point and the wireless client. In particular, intermittent radio disturbancies cause a lot of headache and cost to IT Network Support and lack of 7×24 QoS monitoring effectively prevents use of WLAN for business critical applications, not to mention migration from LAN to WLAN.

Anyone interested in these trends should also take a look at the Finnish Red Herring Gobal 100 Award winner 7signal (see http://www.7signal.com).

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