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Send us Fan MailOne story this week, and it's a big one. Cambium Networks Limited filed a Notice of Intention to appoint an administrator on 10 September, and the Nasdaq delisting appeal is finished. Drew walks through what's actually documented, how a company built out of Motorola Canopy and Orthogon ended up here, and what it means for anyone with Cambium gear in the air right now.There's a history lesson in here about GPS sync and grid dishes, a hard look at where the point-to-multipoint bench got so thin, and a practical pass through the alternatives -- plus the one question Drew thinks you should be asking every vendor you talk to from now on.Cambium files a Notice of Intention to appoint an administrator, and the Nasdaq appeal ends. From Motorola Canopy and Orthogon to Cambium: how the crown jewel aged out. Where to go Monday morning on CBRS, point-to-point, sixty gigahertz and enterprise Wi-Fi.Everything in this episode, in full:Cambium's radios will outlive the company: The last great thing they can do is open up the hardware & software.Made with TelePost. Support the showWanna make your content revolve around you? Telepost.ai Need Wi-Fi supplies? Wifistand.com

Send us Fan MailThis week is about the parts of a deployment nobody puts on the datasheet. A license plate camera that reads perfectly all day and quits the moment infrared kicks in. Six seconds of a launch video that say more about a vendor's strategy than the product being launched. And the credential you need before a spectrum analyzer is allowed past the gate of a refinery.Three stories, all from the same idea: the radio is rarely the hard part anymore. The hard part is the power budget, the permission slip, and whether anyone at the vendor picks up the phone when you ask for a feature.Ubiquiti now pushes unknown license plates via API, and a lesson about PoE Plus that only shows up after dark. Ubiquiti's whole-home mesh pack, the MLO backhaul, and the six seconds aimed at managed service providers. What it actually takes to run a wireless site survey inside a refinery, from the TWIC card to badging out.Everything in this episode, in full:Ubiquiti Put MLO Backhaul in a Home Mesh Pack. The Radios Are the Cheap Part NowBefore You Survey a Refinery, You Need a TWIC Card and a Cotton UndershirtI tried the Ubiquiti LPR cameras & they quickly proved how the hardware, and the people, stepped up! All LPR now via API!Made with TelePost. Support the showWanna make your content revolve around you? Telepost.ai Need Wi-Fi supplies? Wifistand.com

Send us Fan MailA week that starts with three job openings that never got posted and ends in a Houston convention hall where the industry quietly admitted the build isn't the hard part anymore. Drew walks through what happens when you hand a hiring plan to a bot named after a president, and what happens when two thousand creators all hit upload in the same ballroom.Then two takes on the Broadband Communities Summit, before and after: the agenda that celebrates raising the money while skipping the affordability gap, and the two days in Houston that made the case for connectivity, devices, education and workforce development as four legs of the same stool.The three staffers Drew didn't hire, and what that says about your job. Social Fest 2026 and why two thousand phones uploading is a capacity problem, not a coverage problem. What's missing from the Broadband Communities Summit agenda: affordability, spectrum, and LEO. Two days in Houston: the second digital divide, the long tail nobody funds, and Pharr's 13,100 subscribers.Everything in this episode, in full:Two thousand people uploading at once is a capacity problem, not a coverage problemMy Outlook for Broadband Communities Summit 2026: Is the Industry Looking Further Than the Build?The three staffers I didn't hire, and what that says about your jobBroadband in the Rearview Mirror, Connectivity and Opportunity On the HorizonMade with TelePost. Support the showWanna make your content revolve around you? Telepost.ai Need Wi-Fi supplies? Wifistand.com

Send us Fan MailThree pieces this week, and one thread running under all of them: the industry keeps measuring the wrong thing. SpaceX has told the F-C-C that Starlink makes billions in rural subsidies pointless, and Drew argues the terrestrial side is going to lose the scalability argument no matter how hard it fights. The fight worth having is affordability.Also in this episode: what actually breaks when a room full of creators all hits upload at the same moment, and a hard look at the Broadband Communities Summit agenda in Houston, where the money and the builds get two days of stage time and the households on the other end get almost none.SpaceX, the F-C-C, and why satellite already won the scalability argument. Social Fest 2026 and the difference between a coverage problem and a capacity problem. The Broadband Communities Summit agenda: a broken ruler, a missing affordability gap, and two bullet points for LEO.Everything in this episode, in full:Satellite Already Won the Scalability Argument. Affordability Is the Fight That MattersTwo thousand people uploading at once is a capacity problem, not a coverage problemMy Outlook for Broadband Communities Summit 2026: Is the Industry Looking Further Than the Build?Made with TelePost. Support the showWanna make your content revolve around you? Telepost.ai Need Wi-Fi supplies? Wifistand.com

Send us Fan MailThree pieces from this week, and all of them circle the same question: who actually gets left behind when the technology works fine. SpaceX has told the F-C-C that Starlink makes billions a year in rural subsidies pointless, and I think the terrestrial side is going to lose that fight on the technical merits. So I'd rather argue the part that's winnable, which is what a household can afford to pay.Then there's a research finding about fiber and A-I usage that reads like good marketing and lands like a warning, plus the tool I built so that the world revolves around me instead of the other way round. One phone call a day, 500 news feeds, and a draft I still have to approve myself.SpaceX tells the F-C-C that Starlink has made rural broadband subsidies pointless, and why local still wins. Fiber users ask 28.5 questions per A-I session. Cable users ask about fourteen. That's a digital divide forming in real time. I ran out of excuses not to blog, so I built a system that calls me every day and interviews me.Everything in this episode, in full:The fiber-AI finding is good marketing and a warning about who gets left behindI Ran Out of Excuses Not to Blog, So I Built Something That Revolves Around MeSatellite Already Won the Scalability Argument. Affordability Is the Fight That MattersMade with TelePost. Support the showWanna make your content revolve around you? Telepost.ai Need Wi-Fi supplies? Wifistand.com

Send us Fan MailMiss the days when Wi‑Fi talk meant real problems, real tools, and real wins? Same here. I’m back on camera to unpack what actually moved the needle and what’s about to—from the push to standardize Wi‑Fi design to the quiet march toward Wi‑Fi 8 and the gear being pitched as “ready” for it. I share how a voice clone and an AI-powered workflow with Kero and Claude helped me build The Wireless Monitor, a curated briefing that filters the firehose into actionable trends for engineers and leaders.We dig into WLPC’s session themes and why the proposed Wi‑Fi design standard needs rigorous, vendor-neutral guardrails to be trusted. Expect a candid look at silicon announcements, multi‑gig switching, and whether Wi‑Fi 8’s promised gains translate into real quality of experience. On the practical side, I highlight tools worth caring about: Wi‑Fi Check for clean device-to-AP-to-internet visibility in one tap, and Hamina’s Clip, a compact survey companion that connects over BLE and plays nicely with VPNs. These tools reflect a larger shift from “does it connect” to “does it deliver outcomes we can prove.”Beyond specs, we talk retail, hospitality, and the reality of Wi‑Fi as context: personalization at the menu board, telemetry that informs staffing and layouts, and the ethical line as research turns RF into sensing and “see-through-walls” headlines. Resiliency is rising too—cable operators bundling 5G failover and battery backup, LEO constellations promising backup paths, and policy tremors around WISPs and MDU bulk contracts. The throughline is simple: connectivity is now an engine for decisions, not just a pipe. If you care about standards you can trust, tools you’ll actually carry, and networks that stay up when it counts, hit play and join the conversation.Enjoyed this one? Follow, share with a teammate, and drop a review with your take on design standards and whether I should keep video, go audio-only, or publish the AI-generated version next. Support the showWanna make your content revolve around you? Telepost.ai Need Wi-Fi supplies? Wifistand.com

Send us Fan MailThe wireless world just flipped from speed bragging rights to real‑world reliability, and we’re here for it. We break down how Wi‑Fi 7 went mainstream faster than anyone expected, why Cisco’s below‑6E pricing and AI‑ops licensing strategy vaulted them to the top, and what that means if you’re debating an upgrade from Wi‑Fi 6 or 6E. The decision no longer ends at the radio—it’s about committing to a cloud and AI stack that will steer roaming, airtime, and assurance for years.Then we look ahead: Wi‑Fi 8 isn’t promising just bigger peaks, it’s setting the stage for multi‑AP coordination and agentic AI on the AP to lower real latency in messy RF. Think clusters over boxes and an RF brain that orchestrates who talks, when, and where. Qualcomm’s timeline and industry whispers around MWC Barcelona point to silicon arriving sooner than standards alone suggest, and early targets hint at around 25 percent gains in throughput and 95th percentile latency when the cooperative features are turned on.Outside the lab, the buildout story turns concrete. BEAD awards are now announced across all states, with fiber shouldering most deployments and Starlink providing a resilient layer where fiber won’t reach. That changes planning for schools, libraries, and campuses—align your LAN upgrades with incoming backhaul so you don’t overbuild. We also spotlight Helium’s joint venture with Mambo Wi‑Fi in Brazil, where a tokenized incentive model meets a conventional ISP to crowd‑host the last mile with SLAs backed by analytics. Add a stadium refresh at Empower Field that shows the payoff of 6 GHz for operations and fans, a candid look at convention center Wi‑Fi contract tiers, and MikroTik’s consumer‑friendly Wi‑Fi 7 router with Matter and Thread.IoT rounds out the shift from hype to critical infrastructure. Enterprises are consolidating on fewer platforms, budgeting for lifecycle security and observability, and treating sensors, cameras, and handhelds as production endpoints. That pressure dovetails with Wi‑Fi 7’s latency improvements and Wi‑Fi 8’s reliability playbook, making AI‑driven control and better telemetry table stakes. If you’re planning 2025, this is the moment to pick your control plane, design for coordinated clusters, and map your upgrades to where the fiber—and the budgets—are actually landing.Enjoying the show? Follow, share with a teammate, and leave a quick review to help more wireless pros find us. Got a story or field result we should feature? Tag us and tell us what you’re building next. Support the showWanna make your content revolve around you? Telepost.ai Need Wi-Fi supplies? Wifistand.com

Send us Fan MailA week in Vegas turned into a crash course in where networking is headed—starting with a potato-smashing contest at Five Guys and ending with Eero tunnels landing cleanly in AWS. That gut-level, customer-first perspective sets the tone as we dig into real demos, new tools, and the shifting policies that shape what gets built next.We unpack how a simple site-to-site VPN and a transit gateway can turn small sites into first-class cloud citizens, then jump into Kiro, an AI-driven IDE that makes rapid prototyping feel effortless. A standout moment: teens using microphones and servos to drive a robotic hand that signs in real time, a reminder that accessible AI tooling can move ideas from spark to shipping. We also test the cultural headwinds—why younger folks view AI as wasteful—and explore practical paths toward efficiency, cleaner power, and responsible scaling without losing the productivity gains many of us rely on every day.On the enterprise front, HPE’s dual‑mode Wi‑Fi 7 access points promise real buyer protection by letting teams pivot between Aruba Central and Juniper Mist without forklift swaps. Meanwhile, BEAD funding loosens letter‑of‑credit rules but collides with a new White House order tying eligibility to state AI policy, adding uncertainty for WISPs, co‑ops, and integrators trying to plan builds. From the show floor, the subtle star was networking: AWS Interconnect’s multi‑cloud links and unified DNS hint at a future where campus Wi‑Fi feeds smart paths into whichever cloud edge hosts your app. Add Ubiquiti’s UniFi 5G Max lineup and 5G becomes a serious primary or failover WAN that still lives inside familiar management. We close by charting Wi‑Fi 8’s coordinated multi‑AP vision—CTDMA, better roaming, and predictable latency—and where it will feel real first.If this mix of hands-on stories, practical architectures, and straight talk on policy helped, follow the show, share it with a teammate, and leave a quick review. Your take: is dual‑mode Wi‑Fi 7 meaningful buyer protection or just marketing hedge? Support the showWanna make your content revolve around you? Telepost.ai Need Wi-Fi supplies? Wifistand.com

Send us Fan MailSpecial edition! Cloud meets real‑world scale on the Las Vegas strip as we line up two big stories: Amazon Leo’s leap to gigabit‑class LEO connectivity and a live eero deployment inside the largest Five Guys in the franchise. We set the scene for reInvent, map out the sessions worth your time, and explain how these pieces fit into a resilient, transport‑agnostic network strategy you can actually deploy.First, we break down why Amazon Leo’s enterprise preview matters for architects who live with last‑mile pain. With a new ultra antenna and speeds up to 1 Gbps down and 400 Mbps up, Leo changes the playbook for remote and distributed sites. We point you to session ARC320 with Leo principal solutions architect Nick Matthews for a deep dive on designing resilient global networks using LEO as a first‑class path, and we unpack how this affects SD‑WAN policies, latency budgets, and multi‑path failover.Then we head to the Venetian and the Five Guys takeover, where eero powers every transaction, kiosk, and dashboard across more than 10,000 square feet. This live, high‑density environment doubles as a working lab: we’ll show a custom mini rack, demonstrate eero’s API integrations, and walk through how AWS Site‑to‑Site VPN with eero streamlines secure connectivity for remote sites and distributed workforces. Think ship‑and‑plug activation, policy‑driven control, and cloud‑level observability scaled across many locations without hand‑holding.If you care about making networks simpler, faster, and more resilient—from rural branches to pop‑ups to busy QSRs—this is your field guide. Join us in Las Vegas, grab lunch during the Wednesday demo window, and see how LEO backhaul and eero at the edge turn the cloud into a practical, everyday platform. Subscribe, share with a teammate who owns branch networking, and leave a review to tell us what you want to see tested next. Support the showWanna make your content revolve around you? Telepost.ai Need Wi-Fi supplies? Wifistand.com

Send us Fan MailA week in San Francisco rekindled the builder’s spirit: start with intent, then craft the hardware, software, and process to make that outcome inevitable. From the Pier 27 backdrop to on‑stage moments with Anil, Sunil, and Bob Metcalfe, we trace how desired state networking shifts the conversation away from bolt‑ons and toward autonomy, reliability, and clarity. Think less “features” and more “the network just does what we expect”—and if it drifts, it self‑corrects and tells us why.We dig into the product details that make that vision real: SFP ports moved to avoid snags, dual‑board firewalls for built‑in redundancy, and an IP67 AP that can switch antenna patterns in software for warehouses, hospitality, and large retail. Operations take center stage as Michelle shows how kitting, rack studs, and pre‑tilted AP mounts cut install time from minutes to seconds, standardize outcomes, and shrink on‑site surprises. It’s the part of networking that saves budgets and reputations, even if it rarely gets the headline.Then the industry lens widens. T‑Mobile’s network slicing at the Las Vegas Grand Prix delivers dedicated lanes for first responders, payments, and media—wireless as a dynamic service, not a fixed asset. Ubiquiti blends a Wi‑Fi 7 bridge inside a switch for flexible uplinks. Europe’s upper 6 GHz decision pushes more indoor performance toward cellular while Wi‑Fi 7 continues its rapid rise, with Dell’Oro forecasting dominance by 2028. We also spotlight OpenRoaming’s momentum as Purple makes entry‑level onboarding and roaming enablement free, and a Wi‑Fi HaLow collaboration from Morse Micro and GL.iNet that stretches low‑power IoT across campuses and fields. Along the way, a dose of tech nostalgia reminds us why clarity matters: build systems that make the right outcome the easy one.Join us for a grounded tour of what’s shipping, what’s changing, and what’s actually useful. If the vision of autonomous, intent‑driven networks gets you curious—or if you just want practical wins you can deploy this quarter—hit play, subscribe, and share your thoughts. And if you’ll be at AWS re:Invent, message us to swing by our live demo and say hello. Support the showWanna make your content revolve around you? Telepost.ai Need Wi-Fi supplies? Wifistand.com