Wi-Fi Design Day: On-Demand
Free on-demand access to over 50 sessions from Wi-Fi Design Day events.
Wi-Fi Design Day 2024
30 Euston Square, London | 21 March 2024
Update on Ekahau
Stephen Bye
Revolutionising Wi-Fi in a 1 Million Sq Ft Warehouse with Ekahau
Matt Starling & Mac Deryng
Industrial environments like warehouses, manufacturing plants, and distribution centres are some of the most demanding environments for deploying reliable Wi-Fi. We’ll dive into how Ekahau’s cutting-edge tools were pivotal in designing a high-performing Wi-Fi network for a massive 1 million square foot warehouse. See how our 6 GHz-capable Sidekick 2 and AI-driven software empowered precision design, simplified validation, and accelerated troubleshooting in this challenging environment.
Unveiling the Depths of Wi-Fi Active Survey Test Data: A Comprehensive Exploration of Metrics
Troy Martin
Get ready for an electrifying presentation that takes you behind the scenes of Wi-Fi network performance! Join Troy for a thrilling exploration of key metrics – the stars of Wi-Fi active surveys. This presentation will dive into the drama as we decode the mysteries of collecting WLAN latency, throughput, and loss. Additionally, we’ll share the tools and best practices you need to be a Wi-Fi whisperer.
Wi-Fi 7 Heaven or Wi-Fi 7 Deadly Sins?
David Coleman
The number 7 is often considered lucky – will Wi-Fi 7 bring good luck to your wireless network? The latest wireless standard promises faster speeds, lower latency, and increased capacity. Don’t miss this opportunity to stay ahead of the curve in enterprise networking; join David for a deep dive into the newest Wi-Fi technology!
Roaming with Cisco Catalyst Wireless: How We Do It
Hafida Barhoun
In a Wi-Fi network, roaming occurs when a station moves and leaves the coverage area of an Access Point to which it was originally connected to join to another AP. Throughout this session we will take a look together at the fundamentals of roaming features and options in Cisco Catalyst Wireless architectures, as well as best practices and settings for implementing the most seamless transitions.
How External Antennas Can Improve Your Large Public Venue
Connor Burke
In the challenging world of large public venue and stadium deployments, how can the use of external antennas make your job easier and your network stronger?
Connor will take a deep dive looking at best practices for Large Public Venues using external antennas and popular design methodologies for stadiums, like overhead and under seat.
Conundrums and Enigmas in Wi-Fi Security
Phil Morgan
Most non-wi-fi IT engineers think they have a fairly good understanding of Wi-Fi. Some may think they properly understand Wi-Fi security. But do they really? Understanding the full implications of Wi-Fi security takes a great deal of time, effort, and specialist knowledge. In the ever-changing world of Wi-Fi security, what you knew yesterday may not even be relevant today!
Staying conversant with the current body of knowledge in Wi-Fi security is a full-time occupation. Any Wi-Fi security professional would agree that we need all the help we can get. In this presentation you will be given the “Cliffs Notes” of Wi-Fi security: the high-level overview, current trends, and some of the pitfalls and gotchas that many people don’t discover until it is too late.
Join Phil and start honing your skillset in one of the fastest evolving disciplines in IT today!
Using a Wi-Fi Checklist to help fix your Wireless LAN!
Keith Parsons
Wi-Fi can be incredibly complex… but after two decades of troubleshooting Wi-Fi all around the globe, we’ve built a simple checklist to help you quickly check your Wi-Fi and fix a common majority of problems… sounds simple?
Come and find out how you too can use it on your own wireless LAN!
Eduroam – Frame by Frame
Rowell Dionicio
Rowell will be diving into how Eduroam works on and off campus. Seeing how 802.1X authentication secures Wi-Fi connectivity, and simplifies onboarding when visiting other institutions.
Wireless Wonders: Power Save Mode & Breaking News
Dobias Van Ingen
Dobias will embark on an enchanting exploration of Power Save Mode in wireless networks, where efficiency meets excitement. Amidst the marvels, stay tuned for breaking news that will reshape the landscape of connectivity!
Football Stadium Wi-Fi Design
Ashley Mead
Ashley will take you on a journey through the design process for Stadium Wi-Fi. Along the way will be design considerations, AP placement options, antenna selection, and capacity calculations.
Integrate & Automate? No Worries Mate!
Stephen Cooper
Coops will demonstrate how not to hate setting up floorplans and remove the ‘Mist’ery of integrating Ekahau survey data.
Wireless Counselling: Understanding the Love Triangle in Wi-Fi Networks
Jakub Talalaj
Have you ever thought of Wi-Fi networks as relationships? This session will explore the connections between Access Points and Clients. We’ll talk about how to make the most demanding clients happy, how to make AP-to-client connections better, and why AP-to-AP connections matter for a smooth network.
Client Roaming Performance on 6GHz
Andrew McHale
From WhatsApp voice messages to MS Teams meetings, and everything in between, Voice is now a universally expected service whether you run a typical office WLAN or a mega-stadium guest Wi-Fi.
So how does the abundance of channel choice in the new 6GHz band affect the seamless roaming essential for a good voice experience? Join Andrew to find out.
Wi-Fi Design Day 2023
The Barbican, London | 02 March 2023
What’s New at Ekahau
Matthew Starling & Mac Deryng
The demand for Wi-Fi is front and centre now more than ever, yet 1 in 3 networks are poor performing and 75% of networks are in need of troubleshooting and optimization. That’s where Ekahau can help. Join us to learn how Ekahau tools can help you design, validate and troubleshoot high-performing Wi-Fi networks. We’ll share highlights of Sidekick 2, our new supercharged 6 GHz-capable measurement tool, and AI Pro, our latest software featuring support for 6 GHz networks and artificial intelligence.
6 GHz: what we’ve learned for optimal deployments
Dobias van Ingen
As 6 GHz is in its infancy, we will take a look at some real-world deployments of 6 GHz and share lessons we’ve learned so far when it comes to designing and deploying 6 GHz Wi-Fi networks.
Tips & tricks for designing 6 GHz Wi-Fi networks
Matthew Starling & Mac Deryng
Get the most out of your Wi-Fi network designs and surveys — and avoid common pitfalls — with these handy tips and tricks.
Ekahau and Meraki integration
Liam Francis
In this session, we explore the new Ekahau-Meraki integration from the end user customer experience. Imatik are a specialist Meraki partner supporting a range of FTSE 100 & 250 companies.
Fixing Bad Wi-Fi The Easy Way
Renzo Notter
There are four key secrets to troubleshooting and achieving great performing Wi-Fi. In this session, we’ll do a deep dive on troubleshooting best practices and also take a look at how the Ekahau Analyzer app allows you to assess a Wi-Fi network and identify issues within 60 seconds.
Healthcare environments: design considerations in an increasingly demanding environment
Marc Jackson
Technical introductions into everyday digital habits, including technologies used in hospitals and healthcare, along with some of the physical environment limitations, have changed the way some Wi-Fi designs are being approached. Examining some technology introduced over the past few years, considerations towards design approaches have been somewhat altered. Leveraging features in Ekahau AI Pro both for APoS and Desktop Predictive surveys can help us with the design whether it’s for a ward, single site or to meet the needs of 232 hospital emergency departments. Overall Technology in Healthcare emphasizes the Wi-Fi design lifecycle to handle the change and advancements in environments like these.
Wi-Fi Design Day 2021
The British Museum, London | 17 November 2021
Ekahau Innovation – What’s New
Matthew Starling & Mac Deryng
Join Ekahau’s new Directors of Ekahau University & Product Marketing, Matt Starling & Mac Deryng, for an update on the latest and greatest advancements from Ekahau.
Cisco RF Innovations
Jiri Brejcha
Wi-Fi design matters, and so does the antenna choice! Cisco has been busy at work designing its new generation of antennas. Did you know you can configure antenna beam width in software? Join us, and learn how to deploy these in high-density scenarios, large public venues, stadiums, and auditoriums.
Wireless Security in a Borderless World
Philip Keeley
Phil will take a look at different wireless security options and common issues engineers will encounter as networks move to endpoint protection rather than a physical trust boundary.
Wi-Fi Design in Higher Education
Matthew Seymour
Higher Education presents complex challenges for the Wi-Fi designer with rapidly evolving user requirements, varied building construction, academic lab, office and residential space. In this talk we’ll look at just a few examples, the importance of selecting the appropriate access point and the problem solving potential of hospitality units.
Fundamental Truths about Wireless LAN Design
Keith Parsons
Some things haven’t changed in WLAN design in over two decades – and yet people still continue to make “less-than-efficient” designs. Keith will cover the Top Ten issues many people continue to make when designing Wi-Fi solutions. You will learn things you can put in to practice right away to improve your own Wireless LANs. This up-beat, fast-paced, presentation just might lead you to ask yourselves even more questions.
How to use Spectrum Analysis to Validate your Wi-Fi
Matthew Starling & Mac Deryng
This presentation will help you understand and visualise the impact when more than one Wi-Fi device wants to transmit, and what happens when non Wi-Fi devices start transmitting in the same spectrum as Wi-Fi.
The Art of Wi-Fi Troubleshooting
Peter MacKenzie
Troubleshooting is as much an art as it is a science. Very often engineers know the science but it is the art of troubleshooting where skills are lacking. So how do we become better Artists? Well it is time to allow your passion and creativity to flow as we look at the artistic side of troubleshooting.
Wi-Fi Design Day 2020
Online Event
Ekahau Innovation – What’s New and What’s Next
Anssi Tauriainen
Join Ekahau’s VP of product management, Anssi Tauriainen, for an update on what’s new from Ekahau and what’s coming next.
Standardised WLAN Design
Peter MacKenzie
Ask 10 Certified Wireless Network Experts how to design a wireless network and they will give you 10 different answers — and then debate those answers for the next 4 hours. Is there really such a big divide in our industry, or are they all arguing the same thing, just using different language? Join us as we discuss whether a standardised design framework can bring us together — or if it will just add another voice into an already congested space.
Automated Root Cause Analysis in Wireless Networks
Karan Gupta
Karan looks at the process of building an RCA (Root Cause Analysis) engine for a Wi-Fi network. A Wi-Fi RCA engine can help you to identify the root cause(s) of an issue or a symptom based on the available observations, system knowledge and the domain knowledge. For example, if there are 10 possible reasons why a single client or a set of clients may be facing the ‘Low Data Rate’ issue, a Wi-Fi RCA can deduce that only 2 out of those 10 are responsible. You can also run the RCA engine periodically for automated network assurance.
How to Design Wi-Fi for a 720,000 sq. ft Warehouse
Matthew Starling & Mac Deryng
Find out how the WiFi Ninjas designed a wireless network for a warehouse with a really challenging environment; racking 125m long and 18m high with aisles just 2m wide. Did we mention that coverage was required at all heights?
The Future of ‘Work From Home’
Tom Barrett & Jim Vajda
COVID-19 has ushered in a significant change in the global economy, with up to 42% of people working remotely—the majority for the first time ever.
Unfortunately, employees can’t bring their enterprise-level setup home with them and trying to run the same applications on standard home Wi-Fi networks and hardware can create a few challenges. After this session you’ll better understand the issues presented by ‘remote workers’ and how to better support them.
7 Things I Wish I’d Learned Earlier in my Career
Keith Parsons
After two decades dedicated to designing, installing, and troubleshooting Wireless LANs – Keith shares the things would have made his experience easier. A chance for you to learn from Keith’s mistakes. Important issues to understand about 802.11, vendors, and customers that can make your life better.
Mesh Wi-Fi and How 802.11ay Can be Used to Improve Outdoor Deployments
Marc Jackson
Marc will discuss his love–hate relationship with Mesh Wi-Fi and take you on a journey through some wireless mesh use cases. He’ll also provide an introduction to 802.11ay and how it can increase the capacity and performance of some outdoor wireless networks.
The Subtle Art of Wireless Antenna Configurations
Carter Burke & Matthew Wenham
Join the AccelTex team as they discuss real business cases of wireless antennas deployed in challenging and unusual environments. Find out how these solutions required customization to adapt to their environments and how they resolved issues to enhance overall productivity.
Wi-Fi Design Day 2019
The ICC, Birmingham | 08 November 2019
Harder Tech. Easier Tools.
Anssi Tauriainen
Anssi talks about the advancements in Wi-Fi technology that make it better, yet more complex to manage and understand. At the same time they will look at the shiny new Wi-Fi tools that are becoming easier to use, making survival in the Wi-Fi jungle more likely. The new, easier tools will even create disruption in the market place, giving the most innovative and brightest of Wi-Fi folks a significant competitive advantage.
Tips, Techniques, and Tools for Troubleshooting Wireless LANs
Keith Parsons
A quick “best of” highlights from a full Wireless LAN Troubleshooting course. An overview of the entire process from Wi-Fi client devices to full two-way packets traversing the Internet. With specific examples, processes, and especially the tools needed to solve Wireless problems, even when they aren’t.
Delivering Free WiFi Across the NHS
David Corbett
David will provide an overview of how he and his team supported the delivery of free WiFi across the secondary care and primary care NHS estate across England which included over 200 NHS Trusts and 7,500 GP surgeries, and how free WiFi is benefiting patients receiving NHS care and clinicians and other healthcare professionals working across the NHS in England.
Federated Roaming: Design Pattern and Results
Mark O’Leary
Some years ago, the education sector identified an opportunity to cut the overheads associated with providing guest connectivity and thus support increased collaboration and resource sharing. The implementation of this idea ultimately became known as eduroam. Today, in the UK in a typical month we see around 1.5 million unique devices roaming to eduroam-equipped venues, facilitating around 11 million roaming-days of work by staff and students. The same technology has recently been deployed to wider public sector stakeholders in the form of govroam, with the goal of realising similar productivity gains and savings for UK PLC.
Designing Wi-Fi for Voice
Andrew McHale
Want to deploy Wi-Fi that works for any Voice client? Join Andrew as he shares the core parameters you control that make the difference between a poor voice experience and a great one.
How to Design, Install and Validate RTLS
Matthew Starling & Mac Deryng
The WiFi Ninjas will cover all aspects of what is required to design, install and validate a proper RTLS deployment using multiple vendors. They will compare different architectures and location methods including triangulation, Cisco Hyperlocation / angle of arrival, BLE built in and beacon, and discuss use cases supported by real deployments (all Cisco) and their own lab testing.
Mastering Ekahau’s New Connect Solution
Nick Turner
In this presentation, Nick will explain, through a hands-on demo, how to take full advantage of Ekahau’s latest Wi-Fi tools that have just gone through a major overhaul.
Is 802.11ax the Promised Land?
Ian Tearle
The 802.11ax standard heralds in the sixth-generation of Wi-Fi. Dubbed “Wi-Fi 6” by the Wi-Fi Alliance the promised benefits are massive, but what are engineers actually seeing in the real-world and has it changed the way we manage Wi-Fi networks? Ian Tearle will have a look at what’s been seen in the first 10 months of the year and whether adoption is on track with industry predictions.
Wi-Fi Security Essentials
Richard Shelford
Wireless networks are forcing organizations to completely rethink how they secure their networks and devices to prevent attacks that expose critical assets and confidential data. By their very nature, wireless networks are difficult to secure and manage, even for experienced network administrators.
Wi-Fi Performance Monitoring as a Design Tool
Jim Vajda
Real AP’s and real clients don’t always behave the ways we assume they will, and that has implications for design, capacity planning, validation, and application performance. Insights from a Wi-Fi performance monitoring system can be used in place of the usual assumptions to improve the accuracy of WLAN design and support ongoing operations. Jim will walk you through some real-world examples of designs that benefitted from using 7SIGNAL’s solutions.
Analysing Roaming Protocols
Peter MacKenzie
There are many different Wi-Fi roaming protocols, both standard-based and proprietary, but how do they work? How do these protocols improve user experience? What is the difference between them? Which should I implement? This session will answer these questions and demystify the complexly of Wi-Fi roaming.
Round Table
Wi-Fi Design Day 2018
The Barbican, London | 02 November 2018
Ekahau, Wi-Fi and the Universe
Jussi Kiviniemi
Jussi talks about what’s new with Ekahau. He also talks about the kind of changes Wi-Fi engineers should expect with Wi-Fi, wireless tools, and their jobs.
7 Ways to Fail + 7 New Ways to Fail: The Famous Fourteen
Steven Heinsius
When Steven created ‘7 Ways to Fail’ he just wanted to make a summary of common mistakes and how to prevent them, he never thought they would become famous. Now he has 7 new fails, creating ‘The Famous Fourteen’!
Expellianalysis
Peter MacKenzie
Removing problems from the hand of your network – Protocol Analysers can be magical troubleshooting tools, providing the information within trace files is correctly interpreted. This session will give some practical tips for interpreting WLAN traces files and highlight some common mistakes made.
Ekahau Custom Report Templates
Nick Turner
Nick Turner is a self-appointed authority on creating custom report templates for Ekahau. In this session he shows you his top tips and tricks to create the perfect templates which can save you hours of tedious manual report creation.
How Analytics Will Become a New Superpower in Our 24/7 Wi-Fi Infrastructures
Dobias Van Ingen
A famous quote by Heraclitus is “The only thing that is constant is change”. Mobility is growing faster than ever. More devices are using wireless technology, and newer and faster standards are constantly on the horizon. Controllers, access points and other infrastructure devices collect more data than ever before.
Things I’ve Learned about WLAN Design (after teaching hundreds of classes)
Keith Parsons
Based on Keith’s experience teaching thousands of students – he tackles the things NOT to do when designing Wireless LANs. He then focuses on the tips, tricks, and techniques to make designing WLANs as simple as possible.
Round Table
Wi-Fi Design Day 2017
Churchill War Rooms, London | 27 October 2017
Wi-Fi Site Surveys – Absolutely Essential or Time Wasted?
Jussi Kiviniemi
Jussi explores the value of conducting a wireless site survey.
Why A Half-Baked Wi-Fi Design Will Give You Indigestion
Stuart Carley
Stuart doesn’t believe in a ‘cookie cutter approach’ to wireless design. No two networks are the same as lots of different elements need to be taken into account, and therefore no two designs should be the same.
Can I Really Build An All-Wireless Office?
Brett Martin
Brett Martin, Consulting Systems Engineer at Cisco Meraki asks if you can really build an all-wireless office, and should you?
Things you thought you know about Wi-Fi, but don’t…
Keith Parsons
There are lots of things about Wi-Fi which are counter-intuitive, how many do you know?
Reasons Why Wi-Fi Doesn’t Work
Peter MacKenzie
Peter covers some of the reasons that Wi-Fi fails to work, and how to fix them.