Summary: In this episode, we welcome Rasika Nayanajith (CWNE #153, 2x CCIE) from Australia. We discuss the different ways to give back to the Wi-Fi Community. We hope that this episode will inspire a lot of Wi-Fi engineers.<br> <br> Our Guest<br> Rasika is the Team Leader Network at La Trobe University in Melbourne Australia. He created the well known mrncciew.com Wi-Fi related blog and he has been designated VIP by Cisco to be very active on the Cisco Support forum. He has done a lot to give back to the Wi-Fi community and we were very honored to have him on the show.<br> You can follow him on Twitter @mrncciew.<br> Discussions<br> We discussed the different ways to give back to the community:<br> <br> * Blogging<br> * Participating in vendor’s support forums (Cisco Support Community, Aruba Airheads Community, Aerohive HiveNation Community…)<br> * Becoming an Instructor<br> * Presenting at conferences<br> * Mentoring<br> <br> We also deep dived into Rasika’s experience in creating and maintaining his blog. Rasika gives some valuable pieces of advice for anyone wanting to blog or participate in vendor’s support forums.<br> Useful Links<br> <br> * Rasika’s blog: <a href="http://mrncciew.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">mrncciew.com</a><br> * <a href="http://supportforums.cisco.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Cisco Support Forum</a><br> * <a href="http://community.arubanetworks.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Aruba Airhead Forum</a><br> * <a href="http://community.aerohive.com/aerohive" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Aerohive HiveNation Forum</a><br> <br> This Week In Wireless<br> WLPC in Phoenix<br> <br> * Really great event (about 250 WLAN pros)<br> * Talks about packet analytics, machine learning, Wi-Fi analytics, algorithms used by survey tools<br> * Videos and presentation will be made available publicly by Keith Parsons this coming week<br> <br> Upcoming WLPC dates:<br> <br> * WLPC_LATAM in Bogota August 1-2 (En espanol)<br> * WLPC_EU in Lisbon October 3-4 (In english)<br> <br> Aruba Atmosphere<br> <br> * Aruba Atmosphere will take place this coming week and is held in Nashville.<br> * Aruba should be covering their new os ArubaOs 8 in more details. Update next week!<br> * To follow, hashtag #ATM17 on Twitter<br> <br> Arris to Acquire Ruckus<br> Arris and Broadcom jointly announced that they have entered into an agreement for Arris to acquire Brocade’s Ruckus Wireless and ICX Switch business for $800 millions in cash.<br> Arris, which is currently mainly offering equipment intended to the home market, hope to expand its presence into other markets such as education, public venue, enterprise and hospitality.<br> Link: <a href="https://www.ruckuswireless.com/press/releases/20170222-arris-acquire-ruckus-wireless-and-icx-switch-business-800-million-cash" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.ruckuswireless.com/press/releases/20170222-arris-acquire-ruckus-wireless-and-icx-switch-business-800-million-cash</a><br> FCC Lets Wireless Carriers Use Wi-Fi Airwaves Critics Worry about Interferences<br> FCC has officially gave the green light to carriers for them to be allowed to use LTE-U over the 5GHz band. Carriers will then be able to offload some of their traffic to the unlicensed 5GHz band used by other technologies such as Wi-Fi.<br> Technically speaking, this is not really a good news for our Wi-Fi networks, since LTE-U is a less polite protocol, and Stations will start broadcasting a the less occupied frequency without waiting for a channel to be open. Most Wi-Fi experts are skeptical and a lot of debates and talks have been happening on Twitter since the announcement.<br> This is week is the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and we will see if people will be talking about it.<br> Link: <a href="http://www.govtech.com/policy/FCC-Lets-Wireless-Carriers-Use-Wi-Fi-Airwaves-Critics-Worry-About-Interference."></a>
