As the new 802.11 ac Wave 2 products are knocking on the door of the wireless industry, it caused a confusion on how the typical network infrastructure of Ethernet switches supporting 1 Gbps of traffic on ports going to cope with the overwhelming super-fast data rates of Wave 2 products (up to 7 Gbps). The other major problem which kicks in is that nearly 46% of the cabling in the enterprises are CAT5e standard which currently support upto 1 Gbps speed up to 100 meters. These all issues leads to a bottleneck situation which will be created on the wired side of the network. Continue Reading

As businesses and critical applications are becoming dependent on WLAN network, there is need to be on toes always to resolve the day to day issues which comes in WLAN. The tools used by network technicians to troubleshoot WLAN, don’t offer the full capabilities. According to Fluke networks, the functions of various tools are converged into one testing product called AirCheck. AirCheck is currently available in windows version and will soon be available for android(they didn’t say anything about IOS). It supports 802.11 a/b/g/n and ac devices. This software tool has intuitive interface and it provides an instant real-time view of the Wi-Fi environment including network availability, utilization, security settings and rogue devices to troubleshoot most common Wi-Fi issues. AirCheck has following features :
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