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2022 Lifetime Achievement Award
Award Winner: Chuck Lukaszewski
Chuck Lukaszewski is VP & Wireless CTO at Aruba. His responsibilities include driving roadmap & vision around future wireless products and services, and he leads the HPE team in various wireless standards bodies and spectrum regulatory fora. He has built Wi-Fi systems in countries around the world for customers in healthcare, retail, air transport, intermodal cargo, manufacturing and both K-12 and higher education. He holds a number of hardware and software patents related to wireless networks, and is the author of six books and design guides.
Twitter: @RF_Chuck
2022 Content Contribution of the Year Award
Award Winner: Amy Arnold
Amy Arnold is a veteran in the industry providing outstanding content for many years. Her experience makes her perspective very educational and tells the story in a way that makes you want to learn. In addition, her writing is insightful, and topical. She is witty and a very entertaining writer. No matter what her role, Amy has made significant contribution to the wireless industry through the content she produces.
Twitter: @amyengineer
Web: www.amyengineer.com
2022 Rookie of the Year Award
Award Winner: Dan Jones
Dan Jones is the epitome of coming into the industry on fire! He tries to engage as many people as possible on social media and offer assistance or a voice. He actively participates in conversations on various platforms and isn’t scared to ask the tough questions. He may not seem like a rookie, but as fairly new to the industry, he seeks to help in any way he can on the things he has learned and gained first hand experience with.
Twitter: @UKDanJones
2022 Innovation of the Year Award
Award Winner: Ekahau Insights
Ensure Wi-Fi performance is always meeting or exceeding business requirements. Ekahau Insights gives you instant visibility into your global network performance health by combining survey data from multiple users at multiple sites and automatically computing and displaying easy-to-understand Wi-Fi performance analytics. While network hardware manufacturer management systems provide an inside-out view of the accessibility of switches and Access Points, Ekahau Insights gives you a real-world view of Wi-Fi quality and performance at the client level. The combined view gives you a clear picture of your network health and makes it easy to troubleshoot and diagnose issues fast.
For more information visit https://www.ekahau.com/products/ekahau-connect/insights/
2022 Product of the Year Award
Award Winner: Extreme Networks AP 4000
The Extreme Networks AP4000 APs is one of the first shipping enterprise-grade Wi-Fi 6E access points. It can access over three times the spectrum of existing access points and is built on Broadcom chipsets. It features all the same functionality as the existing Extreme lineup from a software support perspective and is built for enterprises to deploy to users. The major challenge addressed is accessing the new 6 GHz spectrum allocated by the FCC for use in the US. This frequency band has the potential to relieve congestion and ensure that modern client devices have access to the largest amount of bandwidth possible.
For more information visit https://www.extremenetworks.com/product/ap4000/
2022 Company Leadership of the Year Award
Award Winner: Cisco Systems, Inc
Cisco provides thought leadership through their continued outreach to a broad number of communities, from standards working groups such as IEEE and the Wi-Fi Alliance to engagement with a broad number of companies for Wi-Fi networks ecosystem. One specific example of leadership is the Open Roaming initiative. Open Roaming enables mobile users to automatically and seamlessly roam across Wi-Fi and cellular networks, including Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) and 5G. This is achieved through a collective of industry partners and collaborators, whose goal is to provide a better bridge between mobile and Wi-Fi networks. They have created this federation around enabling Open Roaming and believe this will create a better experience for the general public.
For more information visit www.cisco.com