{"id":620,"date":"2018-09-24T11:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badger-fi.com\/?p=620"},"modified":"2018-09-24T11:00:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T15:00:33","slug":"nyansa-at-mfd3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.badger-fi.com\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Nyansa; A Clearer Picture From a Data Gathering Powerhouse at #MFD3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nyansa was back at Mobility Field Day again this year and I have to admit, I took away more from them this year than last.\u00a0 Nyansa makes a product called Voyance which delivers a crazy amount of data and insight into your network.\u00a0 You might think you have a good idea about what is going on in the network, but I bet Voyance can show you things you never knew were there.\u00a0 In a market full of dashboards, this dashboard gives you a plate full of data that you may or may not be able to consume.<\/p>\n<p>Anand Srinivas, Co-founder and CTO of Nyansa, began by describing how Voyance gives us a full client picture.\u00a0 Voyance can give you full end to end visibility into your network; meaning it can deliver most\/all data you have between your client and your application, which includes all the pieces in between.\u00a0 This data can be collected several different ways before it is ultimately delivered to Voyance.\u00a0 Nyansa also has an agent which can be loaded on a client (supporting most major client types) to collect.\u00a0 At this time Voyance has built in support for Cisco, Aruba, and Extreme infrastructure equipment, as well as specialized equipment in specific verticals (ie. medical devices).\u00a0 When listening to the presentation you start to wonder about the amount of data they are talking about.\u00a0 Several delegates including myself had questions about how they expect customers to translate the data, how they support the data, and even how data is shared.\u00a0 Watch the video below where Anand goes into detail about gathering the full client picture.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-vimeo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nyansa Getting the Full Client Picture with Anand Srinivas\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/289763195?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>More than a few delegates had questions about Nyansa&#8217;s agent.\u00a0 Installing agents on every device in an enterprise can be a daunting undertaking.\u00a0 There are also questions about which devices are out of bounds for an enterprise to deploy to; such as BYOD devices.\u00a0 As an example, in my case the overwhelming majority of the wireless clients on my network are BYOD devices.\u00a0 Being able to deploy an agent on enterprise owned equipment shows a VERY small piece of the pie.\u00a0 IT support members also become hesitant with how much overhead agents put onto a client as well as other factors.\u00a0 This question seems even more relevant based on what sounds like an overwhelming amount of data that is being sent.\u00a0 We were assured by Anand that data sent via the agent was done so with minimal impact to the client or network.\u00a0 Even though it may sound like there are more downsides than upsides with the agent, an agent will give you the best visibility into how the client is behaving.\u00a0 You will be able to see things such as driver versions, software versions, hardware specs, client roaming information, etc.\u00a0 These are all very awesome details to have when troubleshooting and are often the parts left out when using a vendor specific NMS solution within your wireless network.\u00a0 Watch and listen to Anand explain the Voyance agent below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-vimeo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nyansa Voyance Client Agent with Anand Srinivas\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/289763280?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Nyansa is also taking on another hot button topic in the wifi industry; IoT.\u00a0 For those who don&#8217;t know what IoT is, it is short for Internet of Things.\u00a0 Manufactures are putting wifi capability into all kinds of crazy &#8220;things&#8221; these days.\u00a0 Refrigerators, thermostats, TVs, coffee makers, door bells, lighting, etc can all be connected to your wireless network now.\u00a0 Most of the time the wireless devices that manufacturers put into their &#8220;things&#8221; are very limited in capability, poorly designed, or of poor quality.\u00a0 A refrigerator manufacturer is usually very good at making refrigerators, but they may not be educated in the ways of wireless networking.\u00a0 Lacking an understanding of wireless networking could potentially cause poor performance for the refrigerator, the wireless network it is connected to, or both.\u00a0 Keep in mind that IoT devices are not all novelty.\u00a0 There are very important &#8220;things&#8221; out there such as life supporting devices in healthcare, robots in manufacturing, or other devices critical to specific verticals.\u00a0 Either way Nyansa has something to keep those pesky IoT devices in check.\u00a0 Check out both videos below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-vimeo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nyansa IoT Classification and Performance with Murtaza Zafer\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/289763405?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-vimeo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nyansa IoT Performance Demo with Anand Srinivas\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/289763705?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h4>My Take<\/h4>\n<p>I believe Nyansa <strong><em>can<\/em> <\/strong>be a player in the wireless analytics market.\u00a0 There were many discussions among delegates about the feasibility of a high cost, third party analytics platform for wireless networks.\u00a0 As already noted, many of the current wireless solutions themselves have &#8220;more than basic&#8221; analytics cooked into their respective controllers.\u00a0 This does not downplay the information that Voyance is capable of providing though.\u00a0 Voyance can give you great insight into the client, end point, as well as all things in between, which most controllers cannot.\u00a0 There are upsides and downsides to this amount of information though.\u00a0 I think that the amount of information could potentially be overwhelming to prospective customers.\u00a0 I believe Nyansa understands this.\u00a0 Molding the data that is collected by Voyance to suite each customer&#8217;s need is of utmost importance as to not overwhelm a customer.\u00a0 There could be a very thin line that separates information overload and just the right amount of data to solve a problem in an enterprise.\u00a0 That is where Nyansa should be careful.<\/p>\n<p>The more I listen to Nyansa the more I am intrigued by the product.\u00a0 Last year I was left somewhat confused.\u00a0 This year I have a better idea about what they are about and where they are going.\u00a0 There is no dispute that the information gathered by Voyance could be very helpful, but are potential customers going to bite on a product that adds another dashboard into an already crowded dashboard arena?\u00a0 I often wonder if Nyansa is candidate for purchase by an existing wireless vendor for integration into their own portfolio.\u00a0 This idea makes more sense to me as it doesn&#8217;t add an additional dashboard to a customer&#8217;s toolbox, but offers a potential &#8220;single pane of glass&#8221; to their existing wireless infrastructure.\u00a0 A solid infrastructure paired with built in analytics from Voyance could be a very powerful combination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nyansa was back at Mobility Field Day again this year and I have to admit, I took away more from them this year than last.\u00a0 Nyansa makes a product called Voyance which delivers a crazy amount of data and insight into your network.\u00a0 You might think you have a good idea about what is going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,12,16,21,39,80,90,93,102,126,131],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wifi","tag-mfd3","tag-ai","tag-analytics","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-cloud","tag-machine-learning","tag-ml","tag-mobility-field-day-3","tag-nyansa","tag-tech-field-day","tag-voyance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.badger-fi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.badger-fi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.badger-fi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.badger-fi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.badger-fi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.badger-fi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.badger-fi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.badger-fi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.badger-fi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}