Johannes Jobst is an achieved Options Architect with deep experience in laptop networking and Wi-Fi applied sciences, honed over a long time within the trade. He has a confirmed monitor document in designing and deploying advanced Wi-Fi networks—together with industrial mesh architectures—leveraging his superior expertise in radio frequency engineering and Cisco options.
Educated in Austria with a Bachelor’s Diploma in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering, Johannes combines robust educational foundations with ongoing skilled certifications. His ardour for innovation drives him to ship strong, scalable communication community designs that meet the evolving wants of contemporary enterprises.
At Cisco, Johannes applies his intensive expertise in Wi-Fi community design, IP networking, and Cisco Programs merchandise to resolve real-world challenges, making certain optimum connectivity and efficiency throughout numerous environments.
I used to be accountable for the wi-fi deployment at Cisco Companion Summit 2025. It’s a high-expectation surroundings, with keynotes, govt conferences, personal briefings, stay demos, and press interviews all taking place in parallel. All of these rely on Wi-Fi behaving constantly, and when it doesn’t, the affect is speedy.
Cisco didn’t management your entire Wi-Fi surroundings on the San Diego Conference Middle the place the occasion was held. A few of the community was supplied by the venue operator, and we augmented particular areas with Cisco entry factors the place tighter management was wanted. That hybrid mannequin works, however it additionally means you should not have full visibility or tuning entry in all places. To compensate for that, I relied closely on Wyebot sensors to get a client-side view of what was taking place throughout the venue earlier than and in the course of the occasion.
Many of the work occurred earlier than anybody confirmed up.
Wyebot sensors have been already within the venue from a previous deployment, so I used them to have a look at the RF surroundings remotely. I wished to see what the community was doing when nobody was there and whether or not something appeared unstable earlier than load was added.
The venue sits near a naval port, and components of the constructing are very open to the surface. As ships transfer out and in, their radar methods set off DFS occasions. In concept, DFS handles this gracefully. In follow, you may find yourself with repeated channel adjustments throughout massive areas, which drives airtime utilization up and makes the community unpredictable as soon as purchasers are current.
The sensors confirmed these channel adjustments clearly, even when rooms have been empty. I may see airtime climbing and channels flipping earlier than the occasion began. Pulling these channels forward of time stabilized issues instantly. By the point I arrived onsite, that whole class of issues was already dealt with.
Reside demos over Wi-Fi often fail for predictable causes. They assume secure RF circumstances and cooperative shopper habits, which you not often get at occasions.
Within the showcase space, we nonetheless selected to run interactive demos over devoted Wi-Fi 7 networks. That elevated danger, however it was vital for what we have been demonstrating. What made it workable was isolating these networks from the remainder of the venue, tuning them aggressively, and validating efficiency repeatedly from the shopper facet utilizing Wyebot sensors.
These networks have been monitored all through the occasion. If one thing drifted, it confirmed up instantly, with no need to stroll the ground and guess.
Giant keynote rooms include their very own constraints. Wi-Fi will not be made for 1000’s of individuals sitting shoulder to shoulder. The objective in these rooms was primary usability, not velocity.
We used directional antennas, RX-SOP tuning, and cautious energy administration to restrict rivalry and management roaming habits.
These settings can completely harm the community if you happen to apply them incorrectly. When they’re executed rigorously, the result’s an expertise that feels uneventful, which is strictly what you need.
Sensors positioned in keynote areas let me affirm that folks in numerous seating sections have been seeing related efficiency, although I couldn’t bodily be in all these locations without delay.
One other space that stood out was the manager press interview room. From an infrastructure perspective, it appeared fantastic. Shopper-side testing utilizing Wyebot’s Webex Video Conferencing take a look at earlier than the occasion confirmed that throughput was too low for dependable Webex periods.
That may not have triggered an alert, however it will have been very seen throughout stay interviews. We deployed two Cisco entry factors, put them in Meraki mode, created a separate SSID, and assured bandwidth for that room. That community was remoted from the venue Wi-Fi and tuned particularly for its use case.
The difficulty was resolved earlier than the room was used.
With out client-side visibility, I might have spent a lot of the occasion strolling the venue and reacting to experiences. That doesn’t scale when staffing is lean and the footprint is massive.
With Wyebot sensors in important areas, I may validate efficiency remotely and solely stroll the ground when there was a particular cause to take action. Most points have been dealt with early, earlier than they was person complaints.
Wyebot ended up being a sensible extension of my work. Having client-side visibility in place earlier than anybody arrived let me validate assumptions early, tune the place it truly mattered, and keep away from an extended checklist of reactive fixes in the course of the occasion. In a venue we didn’t absolutely management, with deliberately lean staffing, that partnership eliminated a number of guesswork and saved vital time and stress.
To be in all places without delay is a monumental activity, and Wyebot has over time helped me with that.
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