We are excited to announce that Cisco will beparticipating in Wireless Field Day 8 this year! Cisco is bringing together independent bloggers, speakers, and podcasters to share best practices and opinions in a two-hour interactive discussion format. All presentations will be live streamed from the Tech Field Day website October 1, 2015 beginning at 9:30 am PT.

Cisco is focusing on operational simplicity, and will cover the following topics at#WFD8:

802.11ac Wave 2 and Mobility Express: We will be discussing how 802.11ac Wave 2 provides customers new capabilities found in the Cisco Aironet 1830 and 1850 Access Points such as Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO) and their advantages. We will also demonstrate how Mobility Express can be deployed in less than 10 minutes, ideal for smaller businesses who want an uncompromised enterprise-class solution without the big IT staff to manage it. Learn more about 802.11ac and Cisco Mobility Express.

Connected Mobile Experiences (CMX) 10.2 and Location Update: We will be discussing updates on Cisco Wi-Fi location solution as well as our industry-first Hyperlocation technology. You'll see how Cisco has made capturing location services and connecting guests with personalized portals easier than ever. Along with that we will show the progression from basic Presence Analytics to 1-meter accuracy Hyperlocation, how it works, and the physical Access Points involved. Our speaker will also be discussing the details of CMX 10.2 and demonstrate the new capabilities of the software. Learn more about CMX and Hyperlocation.

Meraki Systems Manager: In this session we'll be giving an overview of Systems Manager (SM) including scale, integration with other Meraki products, and the transition from free to paid. There will be a focus on the SM Sentry feature set and how it provides simple yet powerful security functionality for organizations with Meraki network equipment. This will be illustrated with a live demo of the Systems Manager Sentry features in the Meraki dashboard. Learn more about Systems Manager.

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