MONTREAL, CANADA

Casa Evexía 298 Chemin du Bord-du-Lac-Lakeshore Pointe-Claire, QC, H9S 4L3 Canada (map)

AGENDA

VENUE

Troy Martin - Host

Keith Parsons

Jerry Olla

Co-channel contention (CCC) is a common industry/practitioner term, and many Wi-Fi experts prefer it because same-channel 802.11 devices that can hear and decode each other will usually defer through CSMA/CA rather than interfere in the destructive adjacent-channel sense. Listen to the other side of story and why calling it CCC is bad for the industry.
Come share a journey of discovery… to sometimes wild and crazy places we’ve been asked to design Wi-Fi. From above the Arctic Circle, to Antartica. From mountain tops to thousands of feet underground. Poor shanty towns, to billionaire homes. Wi-Fi holds the entire world together. Knowing how Wi-Fi works, and the fundamentals help in all possible situations.
Wi-Fi surveys are widely used to guide design, validation, and troubleshooting decisions — but what do they actually represent? In this session, we’ll break down what common Wi-Fi survey methods capture, where assumptions can creep in, and how survey mechanics influence the resulting data. We’ll explore differences between static and mobile measurement approaches, how form factor and operator movement shape survey outcomes, and why certain datasets align better with real-world client behavior than others. The goal isn’t perfection — it’s understanding the strengths and limits of the data we rely on.