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Clear To Send: Wireless Network Engineering
by Rowell Dionicio and François Vergès
A weekly podcast about wireless network engineering. Wireless topics on education, wireless design, tips, interviews with other wireless engineers, tech news about wireless, and the products we configure. A podcast for any wireless professional or enthusiast.
Episodes
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CTS 390: Which tools have we used this year?
In this episode, Rowell and François discuss the tools they have been using so far in 2026. From the hardware that’s used on a day-to-day or at a client site to the software they use to help them run their business, fix Wi-Fi issues, and conduct surveys, to AI and Automation. At the end of […]…
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CTS 389: SSID Spaghetti – How Many SSIDs Is Too Many?
In this episode of the Clear to Send podcast, the hosts revisit the classic Wi-Fi design question: “How many SSIDs is too many?” While the long-standing technical advice has always been to minimize SSIDs to conserve airtime, the discussion explores how modern standards—like 6 GHz, multiple…
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CTS 388: Would You Rather, Wi-Fi Edition
We’re trying out something new in this episode. We’re asking each other questions on “Would you rather” to get insight into how we would do Wi-Fi given we had two options. What you’ll find is that we don’t always agree on the same things. And that’s okay. More importantly, is diving into the...
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CTS 386: A Day in the Life of a WLAN Engineer
Thank you to our sponsor: Meter: Visit meter.com/cleartosend to book a demo! Let me walk through what a day in the life of a WLAN Engineer looks like in Higher Education and in a consulting role. Both are different but they share similar characteristics. In Higher Education, the day can start…
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CTS 385: Building Your Own Wi-Fi Dashboard Using APIs and Grafana
Thank you to our sponsor: Meter: Visit meter.com/cleartosend to book a demo! In this episode, we’re diving into some Python and APIs to visualize data within Grafana. This episode is part of Rowell’s automation journey. He has been learning Python with his daughter. For Rowell, this is just the...
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CTS 384: Wi-Fi for Live Events: Lessons from the Real-World
Thank you to our sponsor: Meter: Visit meter.com/cleartosend to book a demo! Managing Wi-Fi at high-density events is a completely different game than running a typical enterprise network — it’s crowded, fast-moving, and unforgiving. In this episode, Francois and I break down what it really takes...
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CTS 383: Deep Dive – Wi-Fi Troubleshooting at the Frame Level
Thank you to our sponsor: Meter: Visit meter.com/cleartosend to book a demo! This video, a deep dive on frame analysis, covers the essentials of capturing Wi-Fi frames and analyzing them using Wireshark. These skills discussed are useful for troubleshooting and for those studying for their CWAP...
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CTS 382: Our Resolutions for the New Year
Thank you to our sponsor: Meter: Visit meter.com/cleartosend to book a demo! In this episode Rowell Dionicio and François Vergès, discuss their five New Year’s resolutions for 2026, which encompass their Wi-Fi consulting businesses, technology, and personal well-being. Five Resolutions for 2026...
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CTS 381: Deep Dive: Using Spectrum Analysis Tools
Thank you to our sponsor: Meter: Visit meter.com/cleartosend to book a demo! The video is an episode of the Clear To Send podcast, hosted by Rowell Dionicio and Francois, where they discuss spectrum analysis tools. Summary of Spectrum Analysis Discussion: The post CTS 381: Deep Dive: Using…
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CTS 380: Wi-Fi 2025 Year In Review
Thank you to our sponsor: Meter: Visit meter.com/cleartosend to book a demo! In this Clear To Send episode, co-hosts Rowell Dionicio and François Vergès look back on 2025 with a full year-in-review of the podcast, their businesses, and the biggest moments in Wi-Fi. They reflect on how the show...
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CTS 379: 2026 Predictions: What Will Change in Enterprise Wireless?
Thank you to our sponsor: Meter: Visit meter.com/cleartosend to book a demo! In this episode of Clear to Send, the team shares their forward-looking predictions for 2026, grounded in real-world deployments and patterns they’re seeing across the Wi-Fi industry. From spectrum usage to client...
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CTS 378: Wi-Fi Origin Stories: Keith Miller
Thank you to our sponsor: Meter: Visit meter.com/cleartosend to book a demo! In this episode of Clear to Send, France is joined by Roel and special guest Keith Miller as they continue the Wi-Fi Origin Stories series—conversations with wireless professionals about how they found their way into…
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CTS 377: Wi-Fi Origin Stories: Mark Edwards
Thank you to our sponsor: Meter: Visit meter.com/cleartosend to book a demo! Mark Edwards has spearheaded Wi-Fi at some of the largest companies in the world. Scaling is a true issue when you’re dealing with a global organization. But how does one get to this level? Mark didn’t just start out in…
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CTS 376: Wi-Fi Origin Stories: How Rasika Nayanajith Got Started in Wireless
Thank you to our sponsor: Meter: Visit meter.com/cleartosend to book a demo! Welcome to another episode Wi-Fi Origin Stories. We have a special guest, Rasika Nayanajith. Rasika is well known in the Cisco forums. He’s helped countless people learn how to configure and troubleshoot their Cisco…
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CTS 375: From Tech to Architect: Growing Your Wi-Fi Career
Thank you to our sponsor: Meter: Visit meter.com/cleartosend to book a demo! What does it take to climb the ladder of your IT career? In this episode, we’ll discuss our perspectives and what got us to where we are today. We’ll go into some of the tips we recommend IT professionals do, what kind…
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CTS 374: Wi-Fi Origin Stories – Amin SedighFar
Amin SedighFar is our special guest for our Wi-Fi Origin Stories series. Amin presented at WLPC Prague 2025 and has been showing what he has learned to everyone. It’s amazing to see his progress with Wi-Fi and how he has been able to pick up the technology. Check out this episode with Amin and...
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CTS 373: Building a Home Lab for Wireless Testing
Thank you to our sponsor: Meter: Visit meter.com/cleartosend to book a demo! What does it take to get started in wireless? You’ll definitely need a lab network. In this episode, we discuss how to get started with building a home lab. The costs will vary but there is a low cost way to get started...
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CTS 372: Should You Upgrade to Wi-Fi 7? A Reality Check
Thank you to our sponsor: Meter: Visit meter.com/cleartosend to book a demo! In this episode, we dive into the hype surrounding Wi-Fi 7 and help you determine whether it’s time to upgrade or if you should hold off. We explore the key improvements Wi-Fi 7 brings to the table—including 320 MHz wide...
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CTS 371: Wi-Fi Origin Stories: How Mohammad (Ali) Ali Got Started in Wireless
We’re happy to have Ali join us on the show today for Wi-Fi Origins. He’s been an active member of the Clear To Send community. In this episode, he tells us a little bit about himself. Going back in time, Ali talks about getting into IT and his first exposure to Wi-Fi. There were many […] The…
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CTS 370: Introducing WLAN Pi Go with Adrian and Josh
Thank you to our sponsor: Meter: Visit meter.com/cleartosend to book a demo! In this episode, we sit down with Adrian Granados and Josh Schmelzle to talk about the WLAN Pi Go, a portable Wi-Fi diagnostic and packet capture tool that’s reshaping how engineers troubleshoot networks in the field. We...
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CTS 369: Wi-Fi 7 Access Points with Wes Purvis (Sponsored)
This episode is sponsored by Juniper Networks, now part of HPE. Wes Purvis and Rowell Dionicio join together in-person with François joined in virtually, on the road. Wi-Fi 7 is the theme for 2025 and Juniper Networks is rounding out their portfolio of Wi-Fi 7 access points. Wes gives us insight...
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CTS 368: The Future of the Wireless LAN Controller
Thank you to our sponsor: Meter: Visit meter.com/cleartosend to book a demo! The wireless networking industry is experiencing a significant shift toward cloud-managed architectures. This transition is driven by vendors seeking to deliver advanced capabilities like AI-powered analytics and...
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CTS 367: Wi-Fi Origin Stories: How Ian Stout Got Started in Wireless
Thank you to Meter for supporting the podcast. We greatly appreciate it! In an introduction of our new series, Wi-Fi Origin Stories, we have a special guest, Ian Stout. Ian is CWNE #333. He has a lot of experience dealing with networks in the education space. In this episode, Ian goes into his IT...
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CTS 366: Behind the Scenes of a Wi-Fi Design
Take a look at what goes through my mind when designing Wi-Fi for an office space. In this episode, I will use Hamina to build a predictive Wi-Fi design. You’ll learn what type of questions I ask the end users or clients. What type of applications they use, how I place access points on the […]…
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CTS 365: Design for High Density Lecture Halls
Thank you to Meter for supporting the podcast. We greatly appreciate it! Designing Wi-Fi networks for high-density lecture halls has unique challenges due to the concentration of devices in a confined space. Designs must account for both capacity and coverage, implementing access point placement...
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CTS 364: Neutral Host Pullback, Wi-Fi Certs, WLAN Pi Go, WLPC, Ubiquiti, and HPE Juniper Merger
Thank you to Meter for supporting the podcast. We greatly appreciate it! In this episode, we talk about the latest news around the Wireless industry. An article from RCR Wireless by James Blackman indicates that T-Mobile is pulling back on CBRS support for neutral-host 5G. That leaves only AT&T…
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CTS 363: Mobility Field Day 13 – Arista Networks
In this episode, we dive into Arista Networks’ bold moves in the campus networking space, where they’re seeing a wave of customers migrating from legacy vendors due to lack of visibility, complex management, and poor support. Arista’s differentiators—like a tri-band multifunction radio, client...
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CTS 362: Mobility Field Day 13 – Celona
In this episode, we explore how Celona is redefining enterprise cellular with its mission to deliver a full-stack, turnkey Private 5G solution. From access points and EdgeOS to their orchestration platform, Celona is targeting the emerging wireless demands of the physical AI era—where coverage,...
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CTS 361: Mobility Field Day 13 – Cisco
In this episode, we unpack the latest from Cisco’s wireless portfolio as they move toward a unified platform—no longer “Cisco vs. Meraki,” but a single product line with common licensing and support. Cisco’s Wi-Fi 7 access points (CW9172, CW9176I/D1, CW9178) offer future-ready performance while...
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CTS 360: Mobility Field Day 13 – Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks kicked off Mobility Field Day 13. In this episode, we dive into the latest announcements from Juniper Networks, including innovations in AIOps, Wi-Fi 7, client-to-cloud visibility, and distributed application performance modeling. Featuring updates from Sujai Hajela, Bob Friday,...
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CTS 359: Marvis keeps on getting better (Sponsored)
Marvis Minis and Marvis Actions have come a long way since when they were first announced. Mist has stayed true to their progression of AI and the integration with the network. Today, Marvis Minis are continuing to provide value by testing the network continuously and now testing in regional PoPs...
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CTS 358: Real-world Troubleshooting
With most people working on Wi-Fi, every type of issue gets rolled into a Wi-Fi problem. In this scenario, whole floors of users were having connectivity issues which impacted sales and support calls. It really created a bind of the company. Rowell discusses how he was troubleshooting a Wi-Fi…
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CTS 357: When Wi-Fi Issues Is Just the Symptom
Amin finishes his Wi-Fi validation survey but users were reporting of an issue occurring in the warehouse. He went straight into troubleshooting mode, analyzing his Ekahau results, and asking questions to collect more information about the problem. This is an example of why all green on a heatmap...
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CTS 356: Revealing the Hidden Wi-Fi Issue
Amin Sedighfar joins us on the podcast to talk about how he came across a Wi-Fi issue in a warehouse. After performing a Wi-Fi validation survey, Amin was able to analyze the results to pinpoint an issue that was occurring throughout the warehouse. With the right training and knowledge, Amin was...
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CTS 355: Exposing the Real Wi-Fi Issue
Rowell recently deployed new Mist AP45 access points in a car manufacturing facility. The IT team had successfully performed testing prior to the installation but we ran into multiple issues after mounting over 70 access points. The Mist dashboard exposed a number of issues: Additionally, users…
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CTS 354: WLPC Phoenix 2025
François returns from WLPC Phoenix 2025 to share his experience and some of the memorable presentations from the conference. There were a lot of new faces and an improvement in the quality of presentations. Lots to learn from so be sure to check out the videos on YouTube. The deep dives were…
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CTS 353: Introducing the EX4000 (Sponsored)
This episode on the EX4000 is sponsored by Juniper Networks. Rowell, François, and Abhi discuss the release of the EX4000 switch from Juniper Networks. Abhi, a product manager at Juniper, shared that the switch will be available on February 12th, just in time for Valentine’s Day. The switch will...
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CTS 352: Networking with Nile (Sponsored)
Austin, from Nile Secure, joins us on the show to talk about how Nile is disrupting the networking industry. We talk about the complexity and challenges people face in managing and scaling their networks. What we were interested in learning about is how Nile Secure differentiates themselves in…
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CTS 351: Wi-Fi & Cellular with Kelly Burroughs
We’re happy to have Kelly Burroughs back on the show. Kelly is a Solutions Director at iBwave. She had moved over from the technical marketing side to the technology side working on the iBwave product. Her role involves defining product roadmaps and identifying untapped market needs. Kelly shared...
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CTS 350: OpenRoaming Update with Tiago Rodrigues
Meet our guest, Tiago Rodrigues, the CEO of the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA). He’s here to introduce us to the WBA, what the organization does, and how they shape the wireless industry. We’ve had Tiago on the show in previous episodes and in this new interview, he provides us with an update…
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CTS 349: AMA with David Coleman
We’re happy to have hosted our first Ask Me Anything (AMA) live event with David Coleman, CWNE #4. He is an author and a speaker. Currently, he is the Director of Wireless under the Office of the CTO at Extreme Networks. In this AMA, the community submitted questions that we asked to David. We…
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CTS 348: Bridging the Gap – Networking and Learning with Eva Santos
In this episode, we sit down with Eva, a support product specialist at Cisco Meraki, who shares her unique role bridging the gap between network support and engineering. We delve into the importance of having a solid networking foundation, the need for adaptability in the ever-evolving tech...
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CTS 347: Wi-Fi Tools You Should Keep in Your Bag
In this episode of the “Wi-Fi Hardware and Devices” series, we dive into the essential Wi-Fi tools that every network professional should keep in their bag. We’ll discuss various categories of tools, including Wi-Fi scanners, survey kits, packet capture tools, and protocol analyzers. We’ll…
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CTS 346: Why Wi-Fi Devices Aren’t All the Same
In this episode of the “Wi-Fi Hardware and Devices” series, we explore why Wi-Fi devices aren’t all the same. We discuss the various factors that contribute to the differences in Wi-Fi devices and how these differences impact network performance and deployment. Key Points: Takeaways: The post CTS...
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CTS 345: Choosing the right Wi-Fi Antennas
In this episode, we discuss choosing the right Wi-Fi antennas for enterprise environments. The main topics covered include: This episode is part of our “Wi-Fi Hardware and Devices” series, focusing on the crucial aspect of antenna selection for optimal Wi-Fi performance in various enterprise...
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CTS 344: Overview of Wi-Fi Access Points
In this episode of Clear To Send, François Vergès and Rowell Dionicio provide an in-depth overview of Wi-Fi access points. They delve into their evolution, form factors, and how different models cater to varying user needs. They start by discussing the importance of understanding the…
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CTS 343: Exploring Wi-Fi Security and Encryption
In this episode of Clear To Send, François and Rowell dive into the world of Wi-Fi security and encryption as part of our “Back to Basics” series. We break down the evolution of Wi-Fi security, from the outdated and unsafe methods to the current gold standards. Here’s what we cover: We also…
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CTS 342: Optimizing Wi-Fi Performance and Coverage
In this episode of Clear To Send, François Vergès and Rowell Dionicio dive into the topic of optimizing Wi-Fi performance and coverage. As part of our “Back to Basics” series, we explore various strategies and best practices to enhance your wireless network’s efficiency. Key points discussed in...
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CTS 341: Meter Command – Dynamic and Adaptive Network Management (Sponsored)
Meter is going one step beyond AI chat bots with their product Command. It’s a generative UI that goes beyond command line interface and adds visuals to create custom dashboards using a natural language interaction. A network operator can make queries for their network, configure SSIDs, new...
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CTS 340: Wi-Fi 7, MLO, and Preamble Puncturing (Sponsored)
Wi-Fi 7 is just around the corner. It offers new features and complexities to help increase throughput and maintain low latency. In this episode, we’re joined by Arista Networks who gives us a run down on the different versions of MLO. With their testing, they’ve seen a few versions of MLO being...
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A weekly podcast about wireless network engineering. Wireless topics on education, wireless design, tips, interviews with other wireless engineers, tech news about wireless, and the products we configure. A podcast for any wireless professional or enthusiast.
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