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Time to make Wi-Fi deterministic

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Time to make Wi-Fi deterministic

One of last week's newsletters talked about a way to benchmark, at scale, what sort of real-world user experience your 802.11n Wi-Fi implementations will deliver before you make huge infrastructure investments. Also important is to then continuously monitor each device's actual performance so you can deliver consistent, deterministic user experiences that are reminiscent of Ethernet. Read full story

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