Actually, you should meet your heroes, just choose them wisely.
wlpc-prague-2019 was my third WLPC-Europe. It was so
nice to review so many familiar faces and to finally meet so many people which work I've been following for some time. Of course, it was also great to
make so many new friends, and talk not only about wifi but also to share ideas, experiences and the pains of being a wifi network engineer.
Every WLPC has been a humbling and very enriching experience. So many knowledge gather in one place, so many heartwarming interactions and
such great camaraderie.
The sessions were great but Gjermund knocked everybody’s
socks off with his airtime calculator.
Visualization of Airtime | Gjermund Raaen | WLPC Prague 2019
A last-minute session, with the conclusions of the “Wifi 6 party”, compiled and presented by Dennis Klein (@SynicWiFi ) was fantastic. The technology is still a bit green, but has a bright future and it will definitely surpass the market value of 802.11ac. Here’s a brief moment where we can witness OFDMA in action (1 AP and 4 wifi6 clients):
Visualization of Airtime | Gjermund Raaen | WLPC Prague 2019
A last-minute session, with the conclusions of the “Wifi 6 party”, compiled and presented by Dennis Klein (@SynicWiFi ) was fantastic. The technology is still a bit green, but has a bright future and it will definitely surpass the market value of 802.11ac. Here’s a brief moment where we can witness OFDMA in action (1 AP and 4 wifi6 clients):
Bootcamp – ECSE-Advanced
I highly recommend the ECSE-Advanced bootcamp or any other wlpc bootcamps. The amount of knowledge and experience greatly surpass the value of
the registration. I’ve been in some presentation regarding the bootcamp
subject and thinking “hmm, I need to test that in my lab…” but when I got back
to the office or my home lab, life happened and it’s really hard to find the
balance of family, work and study.
So it was great to finally have the time and the mentoring
to follow those subjects and witness their advantages. Also, having a trainer
like Blake Krone and François Verges as my lab partner and mentor, it was just
perfect.
API Deep Dive
When I was selecting the deep dive sessions, I could have gone
for sessions that I’m more comfortable like Eddie’s Wireshark or Joel’s
soldering&arduino, but I do believe that sometimes you have to leave your
comfort zone and take chances, so I choose the one that I have heard about it
but I was also the one that I had the least experience. But, when I got an
email from Mike Albano, with the documentation and the preparation steps that
we must have concluded before the session, my initial thought was, “Oh God!
What have I done?”
I didn’t understand most of the exercises in the document. Never
installed dockers, never used github, practically no experience with python… oh
boy… well, what’s done is done so let’s see how it goes.
The fact is that after a few hours of training I was configuring
my first AP with API and also had my open source TSDB. Just another example of
how great the cwnp/wlpc instructors are and how well the sessions are prepared.
