
Waves with Wireless Nerd
Join me for a weekly look into what's making waves in tech and the wireless industry! What's new? What's now? What's next?
Waves with Wireless Nerd
The Wireless World Keeps Spinning While Industry Giants Reshuffle
Fresh from his first trip to Australia, Drew Lentz dives into the evolving landscape of wireless networking with observations that span from down under to the stratosphere. The Melbourne adventure yielded more than just kangaroo sightings and chicken "parmies" – it showcased how different regions approach connectivity challenges with innovative solutions.
The industry continues its dramatic reshuffling as major players reposition themselves. The HPE-Juniper merger leaves customers wondering about the fate of competing wireless portfolios, while Meraki's transition from its iconic green to Cisco blue marks what many see as the final chapter in its absorption. Todd Nightingale's move to Arista as President and COO signals potential shifts in the competitive landscape, particularly for wireless offerings that have struggled for market visibility despite technical excellence.
Beyond traditional networking, groundbreaking connectivity approaches are taking shape. High Altitude Platform Systems (HAPS) floating 20 kilometers above Earth are beaming 5G signals down to areas that traditional infrastructure struggles to reach. Meanwhile, Xfinity routers now feature Wi-Fi motion detection that can sense movement through signal reflections, and community-driven initiatives like Philly Community Wireless demonstrate how grassroots approaches to connectivity remain vital. The emerging trend of influencer-led Mobile Virtual Network Operators shows how connectivity is becoming increasingly integrated with culture and lifestyle.
With hurricane season approaching the Gulf Coast, Drew emphasizes how wireless professionals can contribute vital communication capabilities during disasters. Whether through AWS Disaster Response, ITDRC, or local initiatives, the technical skills we often take for granted can become lifesaving resources when traditional networks fail. Connect with Drew at upcoming industry events including TRA in Houston, the World Surfing League in Huntington Beach, Meter Up in San Francisco, or WLPC Prague to discuss these developments and explore how our wireless community can continue pushing connectivity forward in meaningful ways.
Thanks to our sponsors: Helium & meter Networks!
🤑Looking for ways to monetize your network? Check out helium.com!
💡Change everything you thought you knew about networking at meter.com
Oh, look at that, me talking about you, you talking about me. Anyway, what's up everybody? Drew Lentz the Wireless Nerd it is July 16th 2025. Man, what a last couple of weeks. Let's catch up. Let's see what's been going on.
Speaker 1:I went to Australia for the first time. That was pretty awesome. Got a trip to go down under and I went to Melbourne and had a fantastic time down there, got to meet some of the most incredible people, had just a spectacular time learning about Wi-Fi and the use cases that they have in places that I hadn't thought about before, and seeing just a different view on what Wi-Fi is and how people use it and the services that it provides to people who don't traditionally have services or do have services, but in a different way. It was really really neat to see that, and I got to give a shout-out to some of the salespeople at Aruba because, holy moly, dude, aruba is all over Australia. I saw lots of Aruba, so kudos to that. I even wanted to reach out to Aaron, but I guess he's up in Sydney so I didn't get a chance to see him, but it was just fun to see. I just kept seeing it pop up everywhere. But Australia is a wonderful place and if you ever get a chance to visit, I mean please, please, don't hesitate on the opportunity. I ended up funny, not funny. I ended up, you know, in a sprinter van filled with people going and doing some site tours and stuff. And it was really neat. And, you know, looking at technology, and some of the people that were there tested positive for COVID, you know, two days later, a day later, and so I went stocked up on vitamins and zinc and ate bananas and yogurt and tested and was negative and everything was safe and we're good.
Speaker 1:And then I decided that I wasn't just going to sit in my hotel room. I had this crazy hacking cough and as soon as the cough let up a little bit, I said, you know, I'm just going to walk around. And what I ended up doing is I ended up working from the street. That day I took my cell phone with me, took my AirPods with me and took my camera and I walked around the streets of Melbourne for I don't even know how long six hours or something like that and I just walked all up and down the central business district, back and forth across the Yarra River and just really enjoyed the views, tried to distance myself from people, didn't want to get anybody sick and it was just a really unfortunate but fortunate event Because everybody got sick. It gave me a chance to go get some stroleosis out of my system and go walk around. So it was really neat. I want to go down. I want to go to a land down under. Mark says it was cool. Man, it was cool.
Speaker 1:We tried all kinds of different food. I learned all about chicken parmies. Thanks, it was cool. We tried all kinds of different food. I learned all about chicken parmies Thanks to. Some of my new friends introduced me to the number one bar food in Australia chicken parma. And it didn't fall from me that people take the A off the end and they throw Ys and everything Like Tasmania. The people from Tasmania are Tassies. The people from Australia are Aussies. When you order a chicken parma, you order a chicken parmy. It's kind of fun. You know.
Speaker 1:We learned some great sayings from my new buddies in Australia when we were talking about going out and doing something you know in the States or wherever you're talking about. Look, we're not here to waste any time. We're not here to, you know, just to mess around. We're here to get stuff done. In Australia there's actually a saying that we're not here to beep spiders. So the whole joke was all about, you know, beeping spiders. I'm not going to say it, I don't want to get, you know, flagged for anything. Anyway, it was, uh, it was funny. We learned some. We learned some sayings, saw some kangaroos Obviously, we had our eyes out the whole time. We didn't see any spiders. We looked for lots and lots of spiders, because it seems like all of American TikTok is fixated on Australia being the land where everything is trying to kill you, and one of those things is the huge Huntsman spider. We even went to the zoo and didn't find spiders at the zoo. So what are you going to do, man? Anyway, australia was great and it was a wonderful time. I hate to say the whole.
Speaker 1:If you get a chance to go down there, dude, that's totally not realistic and right as soon as I said it before, I was like that's you know. Yes, if you ever get a chance to drive a Ferrari, make sure you take somebody up on that. Give me a break, dude. If travels happen to take you to Australia or if you want a cool place to go, go check out Australia. It's probably out of the way for a lot of people, but for those of you that it's not. It's pretty neat man.
Speaker 1:So that happened and then the sickness hit and that was kind of rough, but got through that, not too bad A little bit of a scratchy throat. This is one of those things where I was going to go and I was going to record last week but my voice sounded pretty bad so I thought I'm going to wait a minute and push it and push the podcast to this week. So, anyway, what else is happening? Let's see. It's summertime in the US and so we got kids at home. So, you know, my daughter made a special appearance on, I think, two episodes ago, and my son's been running around jumping in on conference calls with me. So summer is summering, as they say. What do I? Got going on Headed out to the World Surfing League, as you all know, if you follow my travels through the projects I get to work on with Eero.
Speaker 1:Eero is a big sponsor of the World Surfing League, so I'm going to be out at Huntington Beach for the US Open. The World Surfing League, wsl. Us Open is happening from July 27th through August 3rd and it's a big to-do down in Huntington Beach. Lots of professional surfers out there, lots of up-and-coming amateur surfers out there, even surf camp for the little ones. So I'll be out in Huntington. If you guys are in Southern California and you want to say hi, let me know. If you want to check out the surfing stuff it's free and open to the public. Come on over, come say hello. If you want to see what I'm doing with Eero, we've got a massively cool deployment that's going on down there providing Wi-Fi all across the area. It's going to be really, really neat. I get a kick out of doing this stuff. It's like a live working lab for me. So I get to get a little bit more deployment underneath my hands or underneath my belt and get some stuff done. So I'll be out there for that.
Speaker 1:This weekend, if you're in Houston, I'll be at the Texas Restaurant Association show. I'm a huge supporter of Texas Restaurant Association. Just so happens that some meetings collided. That worked out. So Sunday and Monday I'll be up in H-Town. Astros are not playing, but if you happen to find yourself at TRA, let me know. I'll be up there for Sunday and then all of Monday and then Huntington after that and trade show-wise.
Speaker 1:Just starting to look at the calendar to wrap up the end of the year. Wlpc is coming up. Meter Up is coming up. Coming up. Meter up is coming up um. And then there's something else coming up at the beginning of um oh aws reinvents coming up at the beginning of december. So if you happen to be at any of those, I think registration is still open. For meter up.
Speaker 1:It's going to take place in november, tuesday, november 18th, at the meter offices. Is it 155 9th street, san francisco, november 18th at the meter offices. Is it 155 9th street, san Francisco, november 18th, 2025. Come learn what meters up to. They're doing some really neat stuff. They just announced $170 million in funding, which is phenomenal. They've got some new, some new announcements with, with partners and with what they're. You know, some of the services that they're bringing to market. So if you get a chance, you want to learn more. Registration is open now. If you go to metercom slash meter up, early bird tickets are $3.49. And if you register before July 25th you've got nine days they're $3.49. After July 25th it cranks up to $449.
Speaker 1:And I don't know who all the speakers are that are going to be attending this one, but right now, sanjay Biswas, is going to be their CEO and co-founder of Samsara and former CEO and co-founder of Meraki, so very cool to have him be on the stage Going to learn some great lessons there. Obviously, anil and Sunil, the co-founders of Meter, are going to be there. It says the full list is going to be coming up soon and it's going to be really neat. If you don't know anything about Meter, check it out. But, most importantly aside, this is one of those things where obviously there's a vendor message behind it.
Speaker 1:But the thing that I'm excited about seeing here is what they're doing with AI and what they announced with Canvas. I don't know if you remember when we covered it last year and when they did Meter up last year. What was so interesting to watch was they did this live view of this thing called canvas inside meter is like, oh, this is great man, that'd be really cool if that was made publicly available on other ai platforms. Like three days later, uh, chat, gpt announced this thing called canvas where you can do this, this ai stuff, and I don't know if that was done on purpose or maybe accidentally on purpose, but it was neat to see the innovation that they were pushing towards with AI. So I would strongly encourage you to check this out if you want to see a glimpse of what they're doing and what their version of the future looks like. If you're interested, please visit metercom. Slash meter up and I will see you there. It's going to be a lot of fun. There's going to be some engaging totally engaging conversation, and everybody from the team, I believe, is going to be pretty accessible there. So if you have questions about what they're doing and what their products are, they're going to be there.
Speaker 1:It's a great place where last year, I sat down at a table. It was a lot of us that know each other in the industry showed up. We're like I didn't know you're going to be here. I didn't know you're going to be here. And the next thing, you know, we're at a picnic table having these incredible conversations about what the future of AI is and how that applies to networking, and you know it's so crazy. I think that was just a year ago and here we are and you know the conversations.
Speaker 1:Now the he said you know the people are going to be successful are the people that learn how to use AI and the people that adopt AI and that adapt to AI and there's so many neat things, I think happening in that space where people are using it to enhance what their capabilities are and to help them be better about their jobs and take care of the mundane tasks way faster. I'm such a strong believer in that. I think it's really, really neat. Let's see. Remember, it's not MFD, drew, I'm playing a B&B, but it's not mobility field. Yeah, so last year some of my pals gave me a hard time because I kept raising my hand and asking questions in the middle of the presentation. I'm going to let Dean Bubbly handle that one. This year We'll let Dino be the guy that interrupts. I'll try and stay quietly in the back. I can't help it, man.
Speaker 1:Enthusiasm and excitement. You know, as I said last year, you know they knew what they were getting when they invited me, anyway. So we've got that. That's coming up. Then wlpc prague is coming up. I think voting sessions are. They might be closed. Are they still open? October 14th through uh 16th and prague czech republic. Boot camps are the 11th through the 13th and right now registration options are set up main conference conference 2,600 euros. Main conference and boot camp is 5,600 euro.
Speaker 1:It's at a new location this year. It was previously at the NH Hotel and now I don't see it on here. Let me see, I don't see the listing on here, but if you need listing, go ahead and look up WLPC for 2025. It's going to be really neat. Uh, it's going to be really neat. It's going to be fun. It's a new property, a new hotel. Um, the sessions. I believe the session picker. Let me see, give me a second. Let's see voting for wlpc sessions 2025. Uh, let's see if I can find this. Um, I know keith had online.
Speaker 1:If you don't follow Keith Parsons on LinkedIn, do me a favor and go find Mr Keith R Parsons and give him a follow. You don't have to connect with him if you don't know him. If you don't feel comfortable doing that, then just follow him. That brings me to something I wanted to chat about real quick.
Speaker 1:I get lots of requests from people that want to follow me on LinkedIn or that want to connect with me on LinkedIn. There's people that follow and then there's people that connect, and I am pretty picky about the people that I actually connect with on LinkedIn. My whole concept is if I haven't had a real conversation with you and I don't feel like I know who you are and you know who I am, I'm not inclined to connect with you. I only really want to connect with people on LinkedIn that I feel that I could use as a reference or they could use me as a reference for something. So if you're sending me a LinkedIn request, expect me to send people your way. If you say, hey, I work in this space, at this company, I'm a network engineer at Walt Disney. If someone asks me, hey, what's it like to be you know, what's it like to deploy at a theme park, I'm like I don't know, but I know somebody who does. I'm going to do that. And it's not like for jobs or for sales. God, please quit trying to sell me stuff on LinkedIn. If you want to connect with me, connect with me. If you're trying to sell me something, find another way to do it.
Speaker 1:I hate being sold on LinkedIn, but I use LinkedIn as a tool to route relationships and to connect with people and I find that I get a lot of people, especially you know what's nuts is, especially since I started with Eero and my job. You know. It says I work for Amazon, which I do work for Amazon. It says Amazon on my LinkedIn. I get all these people like sending me messages saying you know, I've got a great solution for Amazon. I'm like I get it dude, I get the whole sales thing, but I use LinkedIn to really to communicate with people that I've connected with, and so I don't.
Speaker 1:I don't really like the random things that come on. So if I ignore you on LinkedIn I even say it like it's at the top of my profile If you just try and blindly connect with me, I'm probably going to deny you. But if you say, hey, I'd really like to talk to you about something, then I'm totally open to it. Like I'm absolutely open to it, but send a message with it and yeah, man, I mean that's. I really feel like LinkedIn. We need to keep LinkedIn for that space. There's no other space like that. There really isn't. That's what I use it for, and maybe I'm old and cratched here or whatever, but that's what I use LinkedIn for. So long story short. Please don't try and connect with me on LinkedIn if I don't actually know you and if you're not comfortable with me sending people to you to ask questions about what you do. That's it. That's the long and short of it If you want to connect with me otherwise. Find me on Twitter, find me on X, find me on YouTube, find me on every other social media site, but keep LinkedIn. You know, for what LinkedIn is supposed to be.
Speaker 1:That being said, something came up. I got flagged, or flag tagged, on a list where someone tagged me and it was really. It was neat. I wasn't on the main list, I was like on a sub list, but whatevs.
Speaker 1:And the question was asked who are the main people that you follow in the wireless industry where you get your news from or you get information from, maybe not just news, but to find out what's going on? I have my list of people that I can rattle off the top of my head. Right, obviously, keith and I go way back now, I guess, because that's what we do, but I always look to Keith. I look at Keith Townsend, the CTO advisor. I look at Maribel, the analyst. I look at Sean Morgan. I look at the analyst side of it. There's people like Mark that I look at for 4G and LTE stuff. Good old Ron Ron's. On the tip of my tongue there's Ron Westfall. You know, I look for people that I appreciate their opinion and their candid opinion. Jake Snyder love listening to Jake Wes Purvis love listening to Wes. You know there's people that I look at.
Speaker 1:What I'd like to ask you is who are the people that you follow? Because if there's someone that I don't know, I would love to learn more. You know you've got the big influencer types right. You've got the. You know, the Alexis's of the world and the Eva's of the world and Eva, congratulations, by the way, on the job move. I know that was probably a really tough decision for you and I appreciate you reaching out to me, but I'm so, so happy for you. It's always cool to embark on a new adventure, so kudos for making that decision and I wish you all the best on that.
Speaker 1:So, people like Eva, who is sharing information. Chetil, who sends stuff all the time I mean my LinkedIn feed is like I love looking at it because it's the stuff that I nerd out on. And then, you know, from a manufacturer's perspective God, I don't know. It's like UC doesn't know how to not release stuff. You know what I mean? It's like it wakes up and he's like oh, I'm just going to release 15 new things today. So I love to see that because that pushes the industry forward. I love to see what Sidos is doing with their wave device and some of the new things that they have going on. These are people that I look at, that I look forward to seeing things.
Speaker 1:So, if there's someone that Frenet, yes man, frenet, one that for nay, yes, man, for nay, for sure, for sure, I mean, if you want to know how stuff works, oh man, I think I feel like we need a poster board or like a message board that says if you're looking, you know, if you're looking for analysis, here's the top three people. If you're looking for actually getting shit done, here's the top three people. If you're looking for insight, you know. Uh, if you're looking for opinion, you know, that's one thing that we don't have. Uh, I feel like, and like in a good way. I don't feel like the industry, or the wireless industry, has lots of opinionated people about certain things, because we all just kind of deal with tech.
Speaker 1:You know, it's been a while, although keith keith has been stirring up some ruckus online. Uh, you know, I saw his post today where he was talking about I've got to look it up, but you know it's it's been fun to see some, some flame wars start. You know, I love it. I love the opinions. Keep them, keep them coming, anyway. So I just want to ask you, you know, first and foremost, keep LinkedIn the way that LinkedIn supposed to be. And then, number two, tag someone, man, tag who you think we should be listening to and share it with everybody. Don't ever be scared to share who you listen to with everyone. We all have the same. You know, we're all trying to get basically the same information.
Speaker 1:I comb the news to find weird stuff, but I'm old school and so I still use RSS feeds. I don't know if I've talked about that or what I do, but I mean, I really miss Google Reader, but I use InnoReader InnoReader, I don't know the correct way to say it. I use that to aggregate all my feeds from everywhere, and then that's how I sift through some of the weird stuff that's going on. So, speaking of the weird stuff that's going on, where do we start? So this is two weeks old now because I haven't had a moment to do the podcast, but HP and Juniper merger is complete.
Speaker 1:Drew Murray did an incredible write-up with Packet Pushers and it's at packetpushersnet. If you look up Drew Murray, he did a really, really great write-up, in my opinion about what was going on with the merger, so I'm sharing it on the screen if you're watching right now. But his thing is he says you know if you read through it what message are they trying to convey with what they're talking about? What's going to happen to the wireless portfolio? Are they missing an opportunity? And so to summarize it and I'll leave the last part out so you can go visit Drew's blog here at packetpushersnet One of the biggest questions about the HP Juniper merger was how to rationalize two competing WLAN portfolios.
Speaker 1:In fact, it might be the biggest question. Well, for us in the Wi-Fi space, yeah, probably the biggest question. I would agree with that. One, drew, from one Drew to another. Reading between the lines, my impression is that the two offerings will remain separate for the time being, while hp works on ingesting juniper and integrating product management, engineering, marketing, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1:That said, why are we still trying to guess what's going to happen? Nirian rhymes said more than a year that they've had more than a year to formulate a plan. So what's going on? Allowing the uncertainty to continue is a strategic error. It creates a wedge that competitors, including Cisco, xtreme, arista, huawei and Ubiquiti, can exploit, while this newly emerged entity is being thoughtful, so I agree with that.
Speaker 1:It's like as soon as that thing was announced, I feel like there should have been something big like OK, here's what we're going to do. We've been sitting on it, we've been thinking about it. Here it is and it's not out there. So it still begs the question what is this going to look like? Organization-wise, branding-wise, going forward, hp will have a networking business unit called HPE Networking and Rami from Juniper is going to be running that. So that's pretty cool. The business unit will integrate product management, engineering, other functions, and it's going to be HPE Aruba networking and HPE Juniper networking. Let's see where that goes, you know, but we'll see how they bring this together, because this, to me, is the fascinating thing what's really going to happen? You know there's the spin out of missed AI and the way that you know who's going to bid on it. Where's that going to land? Where's it going to call home? How's it going to be licensed? Who else can license it? Will it be locked down? Will it not be locked down? There's a lot of questions about what's going on there that have yet to be answered, and that's okay. I mean, we don't. We're not sitting in the board rooms. We don't need the answers, but it is.
Speaker 1:I think, as Drew, lot of us look at this with kind of elephant in the room is is what's going to happen. What does this mean for the industry as a whole? You know, and and it's still that whole if I'm a Juniper customer, do I continue to buy Juniper today? Like, if I need to buy some new APs, am I buying them today or am I waiting? What if I'm a Aruba customer? Am I like, am I buying some new Aruba APs today or am I holding onto them? And? And how is that affecting sales cycles? How is that affecting technology? And how is that not opening the door for a competitor to come in and say, hey, while they're figuring out what's going on, here's a new product, let me introduce it, and it's you, cisco Live.
Speaker 1:And it struck a chord. I think it struck an emotional chord more than anything else, but also that sense of pride. And when you have people that traditionally wear bright green jackets walking through Cisco Live not wearing bright green jackets ahem, ahem, you know who I'm talking about it makes a statement. And so the statement is that Meraki has gone. Full blue, pantone 368C Meraki green is no longer on the Meraki dashboard, been replaced by Pantone 296C, otherwise known as Midnight Blue. Midnight Blue marks a new era.
Speaker 1:They said, not a departure but a doubling down. Well, a doubling down for who man? It's kind of like. There goes Meraki. Long live Meraki. You know, like that's a bummer man and I think there were more people that were sad about that than a lot of other things. But insert that into the chaos that's happening at that, you know, at the other organization, what's that? Into the chaos that's happening at that. You know, at the other organization, what's happening with Cisco Meraki and it's you know, the thing about it is is ah man, this is like I don't want to say it because I want people to get mad at me, but I also don't want people to not get mad at me. I guess there's a lot of benefit to Meraki becoming Cisco right, I feel, meraki becoming Cisco right, I feel, and there's also a lot of benefit for Cisco learning from Meraki, I feel. I think that it can go both ways and I think that what's happened has just been really tough to watch over the last decade, with the amount of innovation and things that are taking place Talked about this right after Cisco Live.
Speaker 1:Right, the Magic Quadrant still bringing up conversation to this day. I mean, I have thousands and thousands of views on my Magic Quadrant post and even other friends have posted online that they've got like 100,000 views on their Magic Quadrant post. The Magic Quadrant Gartner I don't know if you're listening, I don't know if you did it just to get people all riled up, but, holy moly, I haven't heard this many people talk about the Magic Quadrant in a really long time. So it's been not a shocker, I guess, but at least it's been a conversation point. But from the culture side and from the people side and from tech, from the technology side, watching what's happening at Cisco happen and then watching what's happening at Juniper and HP happen is like, ah, chaos, crazy hands, crazy hands, chaos everywhere. Um, yeah, watch Jake and Sam on the tech field day podcast this week for a great viewpoint on the HPE Juniper thing. A good shout out man. Uh, jake and Sam probably are. Those are two people that I am strong fans of, so I would love to hear what they're talking about there. So thanks, mark, for pointing that out. Watch the Tech Field Day podcast this week.
Speaker 1:Great Viewpoints by Jakey Snyder, I always call him Jakey. I love Jake. Just need a hug from Jake every once in a while. Just makes the world better, man, you know, give Jake a hug once in a while. It makes the world better, man, you know. Give Jake a hug. Well, don't? I mean don't just walk up and give him a hug, and you should probably ask him first. He might say no. But if you get a chance to hug Jake, hug Jake. He's a cool dude, sam. Sam will hug you, no matter what. We love Sam. Anyway, sorry, sidetracked there, but those two, those good viewpoint on it. So I'm definitely gonna be looking for that and listening for that perspective.
Speaker 1:All right, speaking of uh, let's see, so got those two mergers. Oh, another one, a name that popped up out of nowhere. Just thought I'd shout this out when I saw it todd nightingale, who used to run networking at cisco. Todd nightingale was just named as the president and coo of arista, and by just named, I mean two weeks ago, but I saw that I was like well, good, for Arista has been like the. I remember when there was all that animosity from Cisco towards Arista and what they're doing with their switches and Juniper got in. Everyone's like switches. Everybody's mad at each other. I wonder, with Todd's background with Meraki and what he did at Cisco, I wonder if this is going to help push Arista Wireless in a bigger direction. Man, I love the team over there.
Speaker 1:Some of the best presenters at WLPC are from Arista. Some of the most knowledgeable people are from Arista, but yet I still walk down the street I don't see Arista Access Points installed anywhere. Don't see them. There's no market visibility there. I'm sure there's opportunities, I'm sure that there's deals out there, but just from a pure visibility perspective and me and probably everyone who's listening to this podcast, first thing we do is we look up whenever we walk into a room. I don't see Arista man, I haven't seen Arista in a while, anyway. So congratulations to Todd. You got your work cut out for you, but I think in a good way. That's pretty neat.
Speaker 1:What else is happening? Haps? What's the HAPS? Okay, haps, let me open up a deal here. Who knows about HAPS? H-a-p-s Ready Sharing my screen? This from Light Reading, by the way, shameless plug. Tomorrow, july 17th, I'm doing a webinar with Light Reading and Eero talking about operator results from a-Fi 7, from a Wi-Fi 7 survey. So the survey went out to all these different operators to learn about how they're deploying Wi-Fi 7, who's adopting Wi-Fi 7, why they're adopting Wi-Fi 7, why they're pushing Wi-Fi 7. I'm going to be talking about that tomorrow on a webinar with Light Reading, so tune in, be there or be L7. Anyway, back to this.
Speaker 1:This cambridge consultants is taking 5g to the stratosphere. Look at this man. Cap gemini subsidiary is in, involved in creating haps technology. Okay, haps ready. High altitude where is it? High altitude platform system.
Speaker 1:So we've talked about leo. We've talked about you've got terrestrial microwave. You've got, you know, privatete. You've got 5G LTE all this stuff down here. You've got low-earth orbiting satellites. Then you have the geostationary satellites. You've got HAPS, which is a little bit lower than that. Haps is something where they're beaming 5G up right around. Let's see what's the distance. Let's see if it says in here let's see what's the distance. Let's see if it says in here HAPS's designed altitude is around 20 kilometers above ground. At lower altitudes, you can serve a greater number of users with the same spectrum, says someone who has the last name of Brock. Yeah, I'm a terrible reporter. What are you going to do? Anyway, there's this person whose last name is Brock and I can't find his first name Anyway, cambridge consultant CTO.
Speaker 1:There you go. Cambridge consultant CTO Martin Brock told Light Reading during an interview a single platform over London could create a virtual network of virtual cell sites, hundreds of them around the ring of the M25. And what they're talking about is that they put these cell sites on some type of craft up 20 kilometers above the ground and they're beaming 5G down and one of the benefits of it obviously is that it's lower latency and it's higher speeds because it's not going all the way up to low Earth orbit and then coming back. So there's this talk about what can be done with it. Recent examples of air and air access being affected by emergency situations recent blackouts in the Iberian Peninsula. Dude, think about, unfortunately, what just happened in Texas with the floods Having friends who, unfortunately, were either affected by that or had other family members or friends affected by that.
Speaker 1:One of the biggest things that they talk about in Central Texas was that there's just no connectivity and it's not like the flood knocked out the connectivity. There's no connectivity out there. To begin with, it's very difficult to get a cell signal in that area period and when there's emergency alert systems and all this other stuff that's supposed to take place. If your cell phone isn't working, it's just not working. You're not going to receive a message that you can't get because you don't have connectivity. And then, if a natural disaster happens, like what happened with the floods in Central Texas now, you have all these first responders and people trying to communicate. You might have people who are survivors with their cell phones trying to get online and you still don't have connectivity.
Speaker 1:It's crazy to think about. In know, in our daily lives we count on connectivity every minute, every day, but when a natural disaster occurs, where's that connectivity? Where's that connectivity going to come from? Who's going to be providing it and how are they going to be providing it? And so, with HABs, one of the things that they're talking about is being able to temporary deploy things like that, not just to cover the areas that need it day to day, but cover it when there's emergency response that needs to take place.
Speaker 1:So this is talking about 5G on higher frequency spectrum. I don't see the spectrum coverage specifically of what they're talking about there, but it's this idea that SPL's technology was trialed in 2023 by BT. It's this idea that you know SPL's technology was trialed in 2023 by BT. It's this idea that they're going to put this stuff up and it's going to be another form of communication for what's already out there. And then, on top of that, you know, at the same time SoftBank has decided to launch some other services in Japan, starting in 2026.
Speaker 1:And so, if you see, there's this really cool little shuttle that they put up there and this talks about the future drone communication, sky-based mobility, forming part of softbank's larger goal of creating 3d next gen network for the 6g era. So softbank is launching this using lighter than air vehicles, the us-based aerospace company that develops lighter than air vehicles. It's called sci s-c-e-y-e sky sai man. I can't pronounce things. Yeah, I think we're just out of pronounceable names at this point, so people are just making shit up. Anyway. Under this partnership, softbank gives exclusive rights to the sky haps platform in japan. The move is part of softbank's long-term plan to build next generation network. But again, these are UAVs that are flying up there and they're beaming 5G and potentially 6G onto the ground. So if you want more information about that, rcr has got a really good article covering that.
Speaker 1:But what a cool time we live in, where we're not just talking about terrestrial communications and low-earth orbiting conversations or transmissions. We're talking about conversations with things that are kind of in the middle of it. So there's always a solution to be had for broadband. Let's see. We got comments from Rob Looking forward to LR webinar. Long live Wi-Fi. 7. More satellite connectivity is needed. Satellite growth bead oh yeah, man, the bead stuff. Good, call out, ron. You know the bead stuff, the funding mechanisms that are out there. It's that.
Speaker 1:I go back to the comments that we were making before, where it's like the satellite guys were trying to get in the room when bead funding, you know, when broadband plans and everything was first come out, all this broadband advocacy was coming out. Obama administration, biden administration oh, broadband, we need broadband, we need broadband 100 megabit, 100 megabit. And the satellite guys like, hey, we want to play. And everyone's like no, no, no, satellite guys, go away, you can't do this, you can't handle this. And so they're like sitting outside picture, like these satellites sitting outside the door, all sad because they don't have the capacity to do it. And now we're at this spot where, for one reason or another, not only have the satellite guys been invited into the room, but they've been given the prime spot in a lot of these rooms. I'm all for connectivity where you can get it, when you can get it.
Speaker 1:I think that part of closing the digital divide is making sure that everybody has access, and there's the equity component of it. Where well is it worth giving someone access if they don't have the same access as someone else? Is it worth me shooting 25 megabit per second across rural america if everyone else has 100 megabit? You know it doesn't even mean anything and that's not equitable. To do that, but me, I think something is better than nothing in to some extent. Don't give them something that doesn't allow them to do anything but dude, 25 meg versus 100 meg. Give them meg. I mean, there's people starving for that type of internet access right now.
Speaker 1:All right, john Warren 101, great content. Got to run for now. We'll watch the next one. Sure, cool, appreciate you listening. Thanks for the comments, man, I need the little horn that's on here. So, yeah, mean they've been. They've been, uh, they've been brought in.
Speaker 1:You know the bead funding, hopefully will, will go. So I've come, I'm not gonna talk about because we don't know where it's gonna go. Nobody knows where it's gonna go. There's like one day it's on, the next day it's off, and then each one of the states is saying, well, we're gonna move forward with our stuff, and then they're like, well, never mind, because we're not getting any funding. I think we just need to do a whole session on BEAT and what's going on with FCC, ron. You and I should hash this one out, man, because that's a crazy one. We should bring on someone from Shelby. We should bring on someone to talk about some of the things that are happening with broadband equity.
Speaker 1:It's such a great conversation, but it went from being such a sure thing to just being whatever it is now. And obviously the political environment in the United States isn't lending itself to normalcy at the moment. Like every day, something different is happening, something here and something there. So I don't even know if it's worth a conversation at this point. It's one thing to talk about it, and then tomorrow, lord only knows what's going to change, what's going to happen. But maybe a current state of affair of Bede is long overdue. I'm sure someone's talking about it. Maybe reach out to them and bring them on. So yeah, I think you know. Direct satellite is rising. God bless Texas Hill Country. Yeah, man, I can't even imagine my kids go to summer camp in the Texas Hill Country, further away from what's happening that was on the Guadalupe. My kids further further away from what's happening that was on the guadalupe. They, my kids, are up over at inks lake and I saw a video of the dam today at inks lake, lake, buchanan. They just the buchanan dam. They just opened it up to flood out inks lake because all the rainfall they're, so it's.
Speaker 1:It's such a tough time for natural disasters. I mean, that being said, let's talk about that. Oh my gosh, let's talk about that real quick natural disasters. I have always tried to make myself available along the Texas Gulf Coast when something happens with hurricanes in this area, because I've grown up here, I know what happens, I know what to expect from storms. I'm a ham operator, I'm registered with ITDRC, I'm registered with my ARL group. If something happens and I'm here and I can help, I will, and there's so many great services out there.
Speaker 1:I have recently had the opportunity to contribute to the AWS Natural Disaster Response and Disaster Recovery Program. If you don't know anything about that and you're an Amazon customer, look up AWS Disaster Response. It's such a cool program that they have Cisco. Cisco has their disaster response thing and it's awesome. I mean their cars and their trucks and everything are awesome. It seems like there's a lot of good corporations doing disaster response and taking that on, one of the best ones and I got to say it, man one of the best ones I've ever seen HEB. Dude, if you're in the state of Texas, you are blessed to have HEB here at home, and what they do when there's a disaster and the way that they mobilize is incredible. So if you want to see something, if you want to see people getting together and helping in our communities in Texas, go look at what HEB has done, look at what AWS has done, look at what Cisco does, look at what ITDRC does.
Speaker 1:We are at this time, we're about to jump into hurricane season down here in the South. Whole bunch of storms are expected and you've heard me advocate for doing things in your local community. Let this be a call to attention for you. If you're in wireless, if you're in technology, if you have the ability to contribute and a natural disaster hits your area, do not hesitate and do not hesitate to reach out to people in your network. You'll find that there's lots of people that'll help you If you need to set up microwave links, if you need to supply Wi-Fi, if you need to get people online. Sometimes communication can be the difference between life or death for everybody, from kids all the way up to adults and senior citizens, for everybody, from kids all the way up to adults and senior citizens. We have the knowledge to do this stuff. It comes so easy to us that we should really be using this in every chance that we get. So please let this be a call to attention or a call to action. If something comes up this hurricane season and God I hope it doesn't, but if it does please reach out to me if you need help, if you need someone to help contribute time or equipment or resources, either through me or through Eero, or through Amazon or through Wi-Fi Stand or through Frontera, whatever it is please let me know how I can help. We've got the capability to do this. I think that we should all really do that. So just a quick blurb on that. Might as well talk about that. Anyway, on a different note, hopefully it's a good, safe season.
Speaker 1:On a different note, there was something that just popped up and it got my attention because I hadn't thought about this. Fierce Wireless ran an article June 24th, called Influencer-Led MVNOs, are Having a Moment and here's what could be next. I had not thought about Influencer-Led MVNOs. Mvnos are mobile virtual network operators. So if you have T-Mobile, at&t and Verizon right the three big MNOs mobile network operators that are out there you can form an MVNO, a mobile virtual network operator, and you can go in and say hey, I want to sell my service on your network and just utilize your network and I'm going to pay you bulk fees for doing this. It's what Comcast does with Xfinity. It's what all the major cable companies do this. It's what Boost Mobile does. It's what Cricut does. It's what Ryan what's his name? Does. Celebrities do it.
Speaker 1:I remember back in the day at an old CTIA, there were announcements talking about this, about celebrities doing it, and it never really took off. But now what you're seeing is there's been a couple of them that have popped up, and this is not a political conversation. I'm using this as an example because I'm staring at it right now Trump Mobile so you have someone who has some amount of influence who launches their own phone and who launches their own MVNO. The pricing is kind of funny $47.45, because he's the 47th and 45th president. So $47.45 a month.
Speaker 1:Rockstar Wireless, millwall Wireless, smartless Mobile. These are people that are looking at offering MVNO services and imagine things like Eilish Mobile for Billie Eilish. This is saying offering early tour ticket access and zero-rated Apple Music. Or Dude Perfect Wireless giving fans free monthly data top-ups for trickshot uploads. Perfect wireless giving fans free monthly data top-ups for trickshot uploads.
Speaker 1:I had not stopped to consider what celebrity MVNOs could do and the way that they could play into that. You know, specifically the one that got my attention was, you know, eilish Mobile, for example. You know, imagine tying some type of subscription or some type of feature like you know Nike Wireless or Adidas Wireless and you get to know where all the sneaker drops are happening. You know, imagine a wireless nerd wireless where you get I don't know advertising, free waves, podcasts. I don't know it's a, you know it's a joke, I'm not going to do it. But you know there's a lot of stuff that's out there that can take advantage of this and seeing how these M&Os have saturated the marketplace from a coverage perspective coverage there's lots and lots of coverage. It'll be interesting to see how this and if this continues to progress. So why celebrities in the crowded market? Because culture now conquers commodity.
Speaker 1:This is a fascinating article to me where it says, whether it's telehealth from Trump, mobile content from SmartLess or exclusives from Rockstar Building Services, transforms a $40 phone bill into a cross-selling ecosystem. Yeah, it's phenomenal to think about. What would be something that you're interested in, I wonder. I wonder, like if I could subscribe to a wireless carrier that offered me it'd probably be concert tickets, man, it'd probably be like Live Nation mobile, so I could get discounts on tickets to sporting events and the concerts are exclusive. This is just like, you know, having the Amex like. Oh my God, imagine American Express mobile, where you get free access to the Centurion lounge or you know, or you get to call in, have their, uh, their concierge service.
Speaker 1:It's, it's interesting that we're in this this day and age, to that this is actually a thing. So is it going to take off? I don't know. Uh, it's not just a headline grabbing gimmick. Thanks to cloud, native cores, esim and wholesale 5g, the infrastructure now supports real, repeatable economics. Whether it's trump voters, podcasts, super fans or k-pop stands, these micro segments bring a new level of loyalty and stickiness. So I thought I saw that I was like man, that's kind of that's kind of interesting. I had not thought about influencer led mvno, so I thought I would share that with you. Um, what else do I have on here?
Speaker 1:Ios 26 and iPad OS 26 add a small yet useful Wi-Fi feature to iPhones and iPads, and I saw this and I read it, and I saw that another friend of mine, mr Parsons, posted this exact same link, I think. Right after I read it I was like, ah, sweet, glad to know that we read the same stuff. You can tell we're old school because we still read Mac rumors. Sign in details for captive portal. Wi-fi networks are now synced across iPhones and iPads running iOS 26. For example, while this person was staying at a Hilton hotel, his iPhone prompted him to fill in Wi-Fi details from his iPad that was already connected to the hotel's network. A captive portal is blah, blah, blah, so he showed it off, where it allows you to tap a button and paste the same details, uh, synchronized from multiple devices, so that you don't have to remember what your room number is in the middle of a stay. Simple, yet awesome. So there you go. I saw that. I thought that that was. That was pretty interesting too.
Speaker 1:Um, edge core is working with Morse micro. I, I saw this. Um, oh, this is um. Okay, man, this is telecom paper, which is a site that always has really great stuff and I don't subscribe to because it's 40 bucks a month, man, and like that's, that's a lot of money. Uh, so sorry, I'm like I guess I don't get to go with that article. Let's see. Oh, I've got a LinkedIn version of it here too. Let's see if I can open that one up and see what happens as I fire off my LinkedIn Ready.
Speaker 1:Yes, michael DeNeal reports right here, driving the future of IoT with long range power and agility. We're excited to announce a deeper partnership with Morse Micro adopting their cutting edge MM8101 Wi-Fi Halo system on a chip at the heart of edge core, wi-fi's next generation low power, long-range iot solutions with sub-gig performance, ultra low power and wpa3. The mm8108 is the ideal match for evolving halo product line. So morse micro, along with edge core, is is uh is supporting wi-fi halo. Then there was other wi-fi halo news since I talked about that. Matter prepares for iot device explosion and ai at the edge with the first wi-fi halo certification by morse micro. Look at this. Klaus has an article posted up matter prepares for iot device explosion. Klaus is talking about this morse micro.
Speaker 1:What a fun, what fun company, what a fun group of products. The Matter Standard for IoT was launched in 2022. 1,300 devices have been certified by the Connectivity Standards Alliance. The first Wi-Fi Halo device, the MM6108EKHO5 Lite by Morse Micro, was certified last month. While Wi-Fi Halo is not formally part of the Matter Standard, the platform has been certified as a Matter-certified reference design product, which means developers can now experiment and create Matter-compatible client devices or access points, taking advantage of Wi-Fi Halo's range and connectivity data rates. That's awesome. Halo for Matter so cool, so lots of really good things happening in that little IoT space, and I couldn't be happier. Those are.
Speaker 1:I didn't get to talk to those guys. They're down in Australia too. If you ever see them in a trade show, the guys from Morse Micro will give you a Foster's beer, which is pretty funny. So what else we got going on?
Speaker 1:Montana can no longer lend hotspots out. That falls under the conversation that Ron and I need to have about about bead and about hotspots. We talked about this for a while with what's going on with old Ted Cruz and what he did in the you know by by blocking people's access to lend out hotspots. This one was tough because it says you know, starting starting this Tuesday, montana libraries have lost the ability to provide um hot spots, so the funding is dried up for that. The change comes as a result of federal funding losses that previously supported the montana state library's hot spot lending program. I wonder what the scale of that is. I think I flagged that because it's like I think about rural montana and how many people are using those hot spots. I I wonder how many people were affected by that deal. Either way, it's a bummer. Okay, this is cool. You ready for this one? I didn't see this widely broadcast on my network, and that's okay, because this is what you listen to waves for, bro, check it out.
Speaker 1:Xfinity, comcast, xfinity our good friends over in Philly. Philly, xfinity just added wi-fi powered motion tracking to its routers. What, yeah, man, your xfinity gateway now works as a motion sensor. But should you enable this feature, dude? If I had it, I would totally enable it xfinity's routers and have reported gone, uh, gone from motion tracking is reported by CyberNews, a company that notified customers with an upgrade called Wi-Fi Motion all year.
Speaker 1:The feature allows users to upgrade or to use a compatible lease gateway and other connected devices to monitor movement within their homes at no extra cost. Wi-fi devices can even detect small movements such as a hand wave. Expanded users set up the Wi-Fi Motion feature using other devices when they're in their home will receive alerts if the devices sense movement. So you get motion detection from reflected waves on Wi-Fi and it'll tell you if there's something going on. Look, there's even a little video. Look at this. It shows that you get a notification. Hey, we noticed something was in your house. Hey, you're not home and we noticed motion in your house. Hey, we noticed something was in your house. Hey, you're not home and we noticed motion in your house. I wonder if it can detect and differentiate between gatos and dogs or humans. Is it like cat walking through? Is there a raccoon that's walking through your house? I don't know, but this is a step in a crazy direction.
Speaker 1:We've heard about wi-fi sensing and wi-fi motion sensing before at wba and at wi-fi. Now we've heard people talk about it. We and Wi-Fi motion sensing before at WBA and at Wi-Fi. Now We've heard people talk about it. We've seen demonstrations of it, but now being deployed on Xfinity's routers. It utilizes the same chipset. From what I understand, it doesn't impact performance of the overall Wi-Fi communications components just using the reflected waves. It probably obviously puts a strain on the processor and memory that's in there. But, um, but that's fascinating. I thought that that was pretty interesting. Man wi-fi motion. So once again, another use for wi-fi.
Speaker 1:Speaking of another uses for wi-fi, and philadelphia got to give a shout out to this organization. Um, this organization is pulling kensington community scare by spreading wi-fi on outdoor rooftops. Philly community wireless is tying together different places in its community. I haven't heard a project like this in so long that I had to give it some love. What they're doing is they're they're volunteering and they're going out and they're installing equipment so that everyone in their community can have access to free wi-Fi. Part of their process, you know, the success, depends on the properties around the public spaces. So they've got to figure out where to go and who to work with and once they get it set up, then different people can provide injection points into the network using their broadband services. And there's, you know, pictures If you're looking at the webcast here you can of the of the little equipment boxes that they put in place. But kudos to these guys for going out there and doing it and providing wi-fi in a way. I mean, this is how maraqui this is like, literally how maraqui started was just like this was mit roof now trying to figure out how to connect apartment buildings together. This is how it started. So to know that in 2025 we still have people people out there deploying rooftop Wi-Fi at Philly Community Wireless Very, very cool. So congratulations to them for getting some press. Glad to hear that people are still taking the initiative to try and figure out creative ways to get stuff online.
Speaker 1:Starlink, speaking of getting online, starlink is on a thousand planes already A thousand. They crossed a thousand plane marks so you can get starlink on your flights. That's nuts, because the flight that I had from from texas to california and then to australia, I had, I had pretty decent wi-fi. There are times they cut out on the way over there. Coming back it was much worse maybe older equipment or whatever it is but one of the people I work with who was flying didn't have any internet access all the way from Melbourne back into the States. And wow, I mean, when's the last time you were on a plane that didn't have Wi-Fi? And I guess you would expect that on a 16-hour flight you've got access to Wi-Fi but didn't have it.
Speaker 1:So Starlink doing that, setting the standard up there. You know, as we move into more providers being in that space haha, that space, he says more is more providers in space. Um, expect those, expect those, um, those numbers to go up. Expect people have better wi-fi access. Ah, can I get a morse micro halo driver and wlan pi yet? Whoa, I don't know. Man, let's see if they show up to uh, to wlpc and see if we can get one of those hacked hacked together.
Speaker 1:Anyway, wlpc this year, just as a teaser. Again, we're going to have a lot of fun. We're going to have a lot of fun. We're going to be testing out some really neat stuff. The team from aletheia has has uh said that they're going to bring some equipment along with them and really we're going to have a really good time testing out some access points and some capabilities and and having some vendors put their money where their mouth is and seeing what happens in real world environment. So looking forward to wlpc, as usual.
Speaker 1:Okay, I need some water. I talked a little bit too long about some stuff, but it's been a minute so I'd want to make sure that I catch up with everybody. I hope to see you at some of the shows I'm going to be at. As I I mentioned, this weekend I'll be in Houston at TRA Texas Restaurant Association. Please give me a shout out if you're in the Houston area. You want to come and say hi, grab a coffee and talk wireless. And then Southern California for the next two weeks, down in Huntington Beach. If you're around and you want to see what we're doing and you want to see some Aero deployed outside, please give me a shout out to come by then. And then I've got a couple trips after that, but reinvent's coming up and meter up is coming up and wopc is coming up. But until then, I hope to see all of y'all soon.
Speaker 1:I feel like, you know, a lot of my friends are listening, which is great. It's something I love about this industry and, on you know, on that note, I do want to just bring eva back up just for one second again, because you know, I know it's really difficult to make a transition from one job to another, especially when you get into a job that you've been trying to get into for a while or that you feel passionate about, or that it's something that is a mark on your resume of something that you never thought that you would be able to do, and I know that feeling. I was just talking to my wife about this last night. I remember sitting there watching the phone, waiting for a job offer to come through, like, wow, I can't believe I applied to that company and I can't believe I went through the interview process and I can't believe they're actually going to hire me and you get to that point and then you're in the job and you're sitting in it and you're loving it and then all of a sudden, for whatever reason, you transition to something else and a new opportunity opens. Take a second to stop and go. God, I can't believe that I made it here and I'm so grateful for being in this position that I can accept another position somewhere else.
Speaker 1:And one of the things that Eva brought up was how difficult it was to make that decision, and I know that. I remember when I left one company for another. I remember generally feeling gutted Like I love these people, I love the company that I work with, I love the people that I work with. I just don't see myself rising above a certain level. So I need to make a move to increase what I'm doing, or make more money or more benefits or do more things or whatever. The reason is that you change jobs.
Speaker 1:And I feel like we are in a very unique industry in the wireless space where it's never necessarily about the company that you work for. It's about the person that you are and it's about who you are and what you contribute and how you contribute. Because when you get into a room filled with people that work with every other vendor, chances are two years later a lot of them are going to be swapped, they're going to be working for other vendors, but they're still the same people and they still maintain who they are and what they do. And, yeah, they may move to a company because they're excited about the product or the project that's going on at the time. And maybe that doesn't pan out and they move over to somewhere else and they're excited about the project that they're doing there. It doesn't mean they don't like the other one or that the other one sucks People.
Speaker 1:Don't leave. You don't leave and go. Yeah, I didn't leave a company and go. Oh man, their products are terrible. Dude, you worked there Like you loved working there. Don't turn around and say they're terrible. Maybe they're not as innovating as fast as they used to, or maybe you know things have changed, but at one time you were dying to get into that position. Don't turn around and act like you didn't love it.
Speaker 1:And so I loved Eva's mention of what she did, because it was really neat to see that she's a friend, she's a person, she's a human and it doesn't matter where she works. She's a fun person, she's great to hang out with and she puts good content out and she truly enjoys helping people. And I don't ever want our community to lose that, and that's why I always like to talk about it, because I think it's important to realize that the people that you work with, if they're good people, you're going to see them in other jobs, maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe five years down the road, and it's such a cool thing to be able to support people and be supportive of their successes, and I think that sometimes that gets lost. I was listening to a story last night about a friend who eclipsed one of his best friends and was able to move forward where this person thought he could and he couldn't, but his buddy did and it broke their relationship, it broke their friendship, and I was like man. How fragile is that friendship that that can break it. But then it made me think that probably happens a lot more than I think.
Speaker 1:So if someone that you know is looking for a position and they're trying to move, or they're trying to make an upward move or even a lateral move, just remember that it's about the people and regardless of what hat we're wearing today or what shirt we're wearing today, that can change today, it can change tomorrow, but what really makes a difference is the people and the personalities behind it. So, eva, congratulations to you. You're a wonderful person. I love hanging out with you. I'm so stoked for you on this journey, and I know that it doesn't mean that the company that you're coming from was bad. I know that it means you're just looking for something in your next chapter of your life. So kudos to you, and I hope people can remember that when people make moves from job to job. Anyway, I don't know why I felt like I needed to go on that rant, but that's the rant that I just went on. I hope you all have.