Inside Interop’s BYOD WiFi Network [VIDEO] – Linux Powered

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Sean Michael Kerner
May 8, 2013

Interop is one of the world’s largest networking events, with over 300 exhibitors and nearly one million square feet of space. And everyone there, with their 10,000 or so wireless devices, needs to stay connected to the Internet.

Keeping the WiFi network up is a job that rests on the broad shoulders of one man, Mike Rydalch, principal technologist at WiFi vendor Xirrus.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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