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<\/a><\/p>\nAs you may have already read, I broke my promise to write a post every night while at Cisco Live.\u00a0 Some of you may have laughed when you saw that I intended to write every night.\u00a0 I guess we will chalk that up to a first timer mistake.\u00a0 My original plan was to blog about things I learned and high points in the sessions I attended while at Cisco Live.\u00a0 I still plan to do that but the sessions were NOT the greatest take away of the event.\u00a0 Although the event as a whole and the sessions themselves were GREAT it was the people, by far, that made Cisco Live an event to remember.\u00a0 So, please be patient with this post.\u00a0 It is lengthy and I went against peer recommendation to break it up and just write one single post.<\/p>\n
Saturday<\/p>\n I met my buddy Brian<\/a> at Dulles airport.\u00a0 We checked in and made it through TSA with ease.\u00a0 I grabbed a bite to eat and relaxed for awhile in the terminal since we had some time to burn.\u00a0 When our plane finally arrived we boarded quickly and began our journey.\u00a0 The flight to Vegas was great.\u00a0 I took the time to write a quick blog post<\/a> about the week to come.\u00a0 I was also able to read through my latest copy of QST magazine and do some research on my newly purchased Icom 7300 HF radio.\u00a0 The flight from Virginia was roughly 4.5 hours.\u00a0 Upon arrival in Vegas we were picked up by our driver Mark.\u00a0 He drove us to Mandalay Bay and dropped us off so that we could check in.\u00a0 Check in was smooth and we soon retreated to our rooms.\u00a0 After settling in Brian and I met up with Rob Boardman<\/a> and we hit the buffet.\u00a0 Rob is kind of a big deal.\u00a0 You may know about his now essential piece of wifi equipment, the Hub Holster<\/a>.\u00a0 Please check out his site and pick up\u00a0a set for yourself.\u00a0 You will thank him later.\u00a0 After a\u00a0nice dinner Rob said he would show me around the Vegas strip since he had been there before and I hadn’t.\u00a0 We spent several hours walking and taking in the sites.\u00a0 Needless to say, there are a lot of life lessons roaming the strip.\u00a0 We finally retired to our rooms sometime after midnight.<\/p>\n Sunday<\/p>\n I woke up close to noon on Sunday.\u00a0 I guess I needed to catch up on rest from the hike Rob took me on the\u00a0previous night and the time difference.\u00a0 It felt good to just wake up on my own since there was nothing really planned for Sunday.\u00a0 I began my Sunday by studying for the “Conducting Cisco Unified Wireless Site Survey” exam which was scheduled for the following day.\u00a0 I spent 3-4 hours reviewing my quick reference guide before I decided I had enough.\u00a0 I decided to walk across the street and grab a burger from McDonalds.<\/p>\n While I was sitting there eating I realized that the Quarter Pounder I was eating was the most normal thing I had seen over the last day and a half in Las Vegas.\u00a0 I had some time to kill after I ate so I\u00a0walked around the outside of Mandalay Bay.\u00a0 I touched base with Sam Clements<\/a> to see when he was going to arrive so we could go get registered and pick up our badges.\u00a0 Soon there after we met up, registered, and picked up our badges.\u00a0 We walked over to Social Media Central where a bunch of the “wifi guys” were beginning to accumulate.\u00a0 This is where I met Blake Krone<\/a>, Ryan Adzima<\/a>, Vic Nunes<\/a>, Richard McIntosh<\/a> ,\u00a0Stew Goumans<\/a>, and Wes Terry<\/a> in person for the first time.\u00a0 We shook hands, introduced ourselves, and chatted for awhile.\u00a0 It was here where I was formally introduced to Pokemon Go.<\/p>\n Some of the fellas had been playing so we decided to give it a try too.\u00a0 You know what they say, “If you can’t beat em, join em,” or “You gotta catch em all,” or something like that.\u00a0 After a few minutes all of us that had gathered at Social Media Central were herded together for the opening “TweetUp” picture.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n After our picture, us wifi guys decided to hit up Cantina for some Mexican food.\u00a0 After some good conversation, catching some more Pokemon, and eating some tacos, we decided to hit the strip for awhile before retiring to our rooms to get some rest for the first day of Cisco Live!<\/p>\n Monday<\/p>\n I awoke Monday morning still fairly tired.\u00a0 I still wasn’t used to the time difference but it didn’t make much of a difference because I was excited to begin my sessions.\u00a0 My first session was “Design and Deployment of Wireless LANs for real time Applications” with Jerome Henry<\/a>.\u00a0 It was here were I was also first introduced to the one they say is from Saskatchewan, Brennan Martin<\/a>.\u00a0 Jerome offered up a great session.\u00a0 He gave many real life examples of client TX power, designing cell sizes, etc.<\/p>\n Here is a link to Jerome’s presentation:<\/p>\n Design and Deployment of Wireless LANs for real time Applications<\/a><\/p>\n Great information via @wirelessccie<\/a> @CiscoLive<\/a> #CLUS<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/MQlqgEsFDA<\/a><\/p>\n — Mitch Dickey – \ud83e\udda1\ud83d\udcf6 (@Badger_Fi) July 11, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>\n