Essential Projects and Success is Your Only Option... By Jim Holt RF-Works was classified as an essential service company during the COVID-19 shut-down. Many of the April and May projects that we were asked to plan and deliver were extremely time-sensitive and also important to life-safety. Our customer’s being successful was the only
The Six Steps for WiFi 6 (if you want …wireless done right™) By Jim Holt As the number of connected devices increases per square foot, the demands on the networks that provide the wireless access increase too. So it follows that those responsible for ensuring the design, implementation, configuration, and security of the wired and
Outdated Healthcare IT Infrastructure is Attracting Cybercriminals to Hospitals Part II By Jim Holt, EVP In the spring, I wrote about how outdated healthcare IT infrastructure is attracting cybercriminals to hospitals. Healthcare systems of all sizes are the most cyber-attacked industry over the last five years and an outdated IT and network infrastructure is the
The Skillsets for Wireless Done Right™ (advancing and engineering the network) By Mark Audia As the number of connected devices increases per square foot, the demands on the networks that provide the wireless access increase too. So it follows that those responsible for ensuring the design, implementation, configuration, and security of the wired and wireless
The Top Secret Recipe for “Wireless Done Right™” By Jim Holt Somewhere inscribed in pencil on a yellowed piece of paper inside a Louisville, Kentucky safe is Colonel Sanders’ Original Recipe of eleven herbs and spices, says KFC spokesman Rick Maynard. The safe lies inside a state-of-the-art vault that is surrounded by motion detectors,
By Jim Portaro, Principal and Founder People like the freedom of “no wires” for mobility and aesthetics. What happens when you need to have a mixed deployment of a myriad of wireless devices operating in a myriad of different frequency ranges of the radio frequency (RF) spectrum? The short answer is you test operational
By Jim Portaro, Principal and Founder The industry best practice measurement of availability is to achieve 5-Nines. This means the network is up 99.999% of the time and down for no longer than 0.001% or 5.26 minutes over the span of a year. This should be the minimum requirement for a converged network, which
