Webinar next Wednesday: Delivering Reliable Wireless Services in Healthcare – Better Communications for Better Care

On May 16, Ekahau’s partner Xirrus, provider of high-performance wireless networks, will host a webinar on how to design and deploy wireless networks that meet the growing requirements of medical institutions. Ekahau will join the webinar as the guest technology partner.

Webinar topics include:

• Understanding the unique wireless capabilities of iPads and tablets
• Designing the wireless network to meet growing density requirements
• Leveraging mobile device policy enforcement tools to securely control device access

Date: May 16, 2012
Time: 2pm EDT / 11am PDT
Location: Online & By Phone

> Register for the webinar

Ekahau is growing and hiring

You may have seen the recent press release about Ekahau’s recent success with both of our product lines.

We’re hiring for sales, engineering, and software development positions – in the US and Finland. Check out the open positions here. Or just drop us a line at careers@ekahau.com .

Cheers,
Jussi Kiviniemi / Ekahau

Which Wi-Fi Tool Should I Choose for Network Planning, Site Surveys, Troubleshooting?

Spectrum analysis, Wi-Fi Planning, Site Surveys, Troubleshooting…
Active surveys, passive surveys, GPS surveys, 3D plans…

So many tools, so many features. Which tool is the right one for my Wi-Fi deployment needs? The answer is right here, in our updated Ekahau Wi-Fi Tools Comparison Table.

Hope this helps.

—
Jussi / Ekahau

Big Brother TV Show Contestants Tracked by Ekahau Wi-Fi RTLS Tags

The TV Show Big Brother uses Ekahau Real-Time Location System (RTLS) to track their contestants around the house, in Sweden). The system includes Ekahau T301W Wi-Fi RTLS tags (featured in the picture below), as well as Ekahau RTLS Controller location engine / tag management server.

Ekahau RTLS is the leading solution for tracking assets and people in enterprise environments. It does not require any additional infrastructure, as it utilizes existing Wi-Fi networks for tracking. In addition to Wi-Fi tags, the system can track smartphones, tablets, and laptops.

Big Brother Sweden Contestant with Ekahau Wi-Fi RTLS Tag

The Big Brother Sweden website displays the location of each contestant in real-time (screenshot below).

Big Brother House WiFi RTLS Tracking Powered by Ekahau RTLS

 

Cheers,
Jussi Kiviniemi
Ekahau

Webinar on Wednesday: The 5 Most Effective Ways to Improve Your Wi-Fi

This Wednesday, we’re hosting a webinar, actually two of them, about simple ways to improve your Wi-Fi network.

Americas Webinar 
(Featuring Guest Speaker Trent Cutler, expert on Wi-Fi spectrum analysis)
will be held this Wednesday, March 14th, at 2pm Eastern Time

> Register for Americas Webinar

Europe/Middle-East/Asia-Pacific webinar 
will be held this Wednesday, March 14th, at 11am Central European Time

> Register for EMEA/APAC webinar

Announcing Ekahau Certified Survey Engineer (ECSE) Training

Want to learn Wi-Fi planning, site surveys, and troubleshooting?
Want to learn from the folks who have made Wi-Fi tools for 10 years?

Ekahau is now offering a 2-day hands-on training course, plus a half-day hands-on certification.  The focus will be on Wi-Fi life cycle management. The vast majority of the tools used will be Ekahau of course (Ekahau Site Survey, DBx Pro Spectrum Analyzer, Mobile Survey Android App, …) , but be learning a ton of Wi-Fi knowledge along the way as well.

If you already have taken one of the awesome CWNP courses, or Cisco’s before this one, it certainly won’t hurt. But it’s not mandatory.

 > ECSE Training Data Sheet
 > ECSE Certification Data Sheet
 > More info about Ekahau Certified Wi-Fi Survey Engineer Training

Contact training@ekahau.com for more details.

Have a great weekend! Regards,
Thorsten & Jussi / Ekahau

Video: Cerner and Ekahau Optimize the Processes at the Moffitt Cancer Center

Check out this video, made by Cerner. It explains the fundamentals of Cerner’s Careaware Capacity Management / Patient Flow application as used at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.  A key component of the system is Ekahau RTLS Controller location engine server, as well as Ekahau Wi-Fi tags worn in the wrist by the patients.

Built on an old airline telephone support center, the brand-new Moffitt International Plaza outpatient cancer treatment facility was completely redesigned and renovated from the ground up. The high-end cancer center now features the healthcare high-tech, maximizing patient satisfaction and optimizing the processes.

Professional site survey and heatmapping tool for $399? You kidding me?

No, I’m not.

We just released a $399 site survey and heatmapping tool for Android tablets and phones. The product is called Ekahau Mobile Survey 2.0. Thanks to the touch-operated, simple user interface, I believe it’s the most user-friendly enterprise-grade Wi-Fi tool out there .

It’s targeted at IT administrators of small to medium-size networks (think 3 to 50 APs), who don’t necessarily want to spend thousands of dollars on a verification and analysis tool, but could spend $399.

And, of course, it’s targeted for you wireless professionals who want to use a lighter, touch-operated solution – if not for every installation, then at times. It’s also great for making sure the network works on the tablet or phone, which would represent a typical end user device.

The integration with Ekahau Site Survey allows you to get projects from Ekahau Site Survey to your tablet or phone. More importantly, it allows you to perform a survey on a tablet or a phone, and then export that to Ekahau Site Survey for in-depth analysis and reporting.

Because Ekahau Mobile Survey 2.0 is affordable, companies with a larger number of engineers can now easily equip all of those with a professional tool. 

Naturally, the tool comes with all the features in Ekahau Mobile Survey 1.0, it’ also a great on-the-spot analysis and troubleshooting tool. And, it’s the only tool to perform continual monitoring from the end user device perspective.

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Jussi / Ekahau 

Large-scale Wi-Fi site surveys causing your back and biceps to hurt?

Performing large-scale, on-site walk-through site surveys, carrying a laptop, can get to your back, biceps, and posture. Many of us have walked through huge hospitals and universities, and inventing all kinds of straps and backpack-style solutions for balancing the weight of the laptop.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a lighter-weight alternative? Perhaps something easier to use and more affordable, too, so that you could equip more engineers with these solutions?

I sure think so.

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Jussi Kiviniemi / Ekahau

Ekahau Live @ Wireless Field Day: Tune in tomorrow Thursday at 1:30pm pacific time, 4:30pm Eastern

 > Check the Wireless Field Day coverage LIVE tomorrow at 1:30pm pacific US time HERE!

(never mind if that page says 12 noon or something like that, we’ll fix it. The correct time is 1:30pm)

• We will be revealing a brand new product and demoing it.
• We will be explaining why capacity matters and showing how to design for capacity.
• And we will be talking about real-time location systems – and demoing them

 > Check the Wireless Field Day coverage LIVE tomorrow at 1:30 HERE!

We will also be providing a recording of the session later for those who can’t watch the live stream.