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CWNP CWNP is the recognized industry standard for enterprise Wi-Fi training and certification. CWNP is the

At CWNP, we offer enterprise wireless certifications for entry-level professionals all the way up to seasoned network experts. Each certification level is designed to benchmark your deepening understanding of RF technologies and applications of wireless networks. CWNP employs authorized training providers called CWNP Learning Centers to deliver instructor-led, video, and online LIVE training towards CWNP certifications. CWNP Learning Centers offer training around the globe using official CWNP curriculum taught by CWNT certified instructors. CWNP publishes videos, white papers, blogs, and other materials that assist the networker in learning Wi-Fi technologies and preparing for CWNP exams.

CWNA-110 study materials are in the store. CWNA-109 is still valid through December 2026. Here's how to choose.If you're...
10/16/2026

CWNA-110 study materials are in the store. CWNA-109 is still valid through December 2026. Here's how to choose.

If you're partway through CWNA-109 material and you're testing before the end of the year, finish what you started. The certification you earn is the same CWNA credential.
If you're starting fresh, or you're testing in 2027, go straight to CWNA-110. There's no reason to learn to a retiring objective set.

CWNA is the foundation the rest of the pathway is built on. CWAP, CWDP, and CWSP all assume it, and CWNE requires it. It's vendor-neutral, so what you learn applies across every platform you'll touch instead of one vendor's implementation.

Certification details: https://zurl.co/NVDtg
Study materials: https://zurl.co/c3htw

WLPC Prague 2026 is a wrap. 🇨🇿 Three days of deep technical conversation, and one thing stood out: this industry runs on...
10/15/2026

WLPC Prague 2026 is a wrap. 🇨🇿

Three days of deep technical conversation, and one thing stood out: this industry runs on people who keep learning.

Seeing CWNEs in one room is a reminder of what that commitment looks like. These are engineers who’ve put in the work, validated it, and keep pushing the standard forward for everyone behind them.

Thank you to Keith Parsons and the WLPC team for building a space where that happens, and to everyone who stopped by to talk certifications, workforce development, and where wireless goes next.

See you at the next one.

You can explain 802.11ax in your sleep. Can you explain 802.15.4?For a lot of wireless engineers the honest answer is no...
10/14/2026

You can explain 802.11ax in your sleep. Can you explain 802.15.4?

For a lot of wireless engineers the honest answer is no, and that gap is getting expensive.

802.15.4 is the layer sitting underneath Zigbee, Thread, 6LoWPAN, WirelessHART, and ISA100.11a. When a building automation vendor, a facilities team, or an OT group brings sensors into your environment, that's usually what arrives. It shares the 2.4 GHz band with your Wi-Fi. It has its own channel plan. It behaves nothing like an 802.11 client.

So when the sensor mesh gets flaky and someone asks the Wi-Fi person to look at it, "that's not my protocol" stops being a useful answer. You're the one in the building who understands RF.

Tom Carpenter's breakdown of 802.15.4 covers the bands, data rates, and where it actually fits. It's a solid starting point.

Read it: https://zurl.co/ulr2G

CWISA is where the structured version of this lives. It's the entry point to CWNP's IoT track and it covers 802.15.4, BLE, Zigbee, LoRaWAN, Thread, Z-Wave and more, vendor-neutral, so the knowledge transfers whoever built the gateway.

Start here: https://zurl.co/xsYjG

Has non-Wi-Fi IoT landed on your plate yet?

Good to catch up with Troy Martin, Peter Mackenzie, and Michael Blum, CWNE Board Member, in Prague today.
10/13/2026

Good to catch up with Troy Martin, Peter Mackenzie, and Michael Blum, CWNE Board Member, in Prague today.

WLPC Europe is underway in Prague, and CWNP is on site. Jose Cantanhede is at the event through the 15th. If you’d like ...
10/13/2026

WLPC Europe is underway in Prague, and CWNP is on site.

Jose Cantanhede is at the event through the 15th. If you’d like to talk certifications, training for your team, or a wireless issue you’re working through, he’d be glad to connect.

Most IoT training teaches you one protocol and calls it done. CWNP's IoT program is the most exhaustive in the world and...
10/13/2026

Most IoT training teaches you one protocol and calls it done. CWNP's IoT program is the most exhaustive in the world and it's not even close.

While other programs give you surface-level overviews, CWNP's IoT track covers:
→ 10+ wireless protocols in depth: BLE, Zigbee, Thread, LoRaWAN, Sigfox, Z-Wave, ISA100.11a, WirelessHART, 6LoWPAN, 802.15.4
→ Protocol-level understanding: MAC layer, PHY layer, security features, troubleshooting methods for EACH protocol
→ Real integration skills: APIs, Python programming, MQTT, CoAP, DDS, AMQP
→ Actual design methodology: Requirements, validation, security architecture, documentation

This isn't a weekend bootcamp. It's the complete IoT wireless knowledge base built from two decades of Wi-Fi expertise.

Four certifications. Zero gaps.

CWISA (Foundation) → CWICP (Connectivity) / CWIIP (Integration) / CWIDP (Design) → CWISE (Expert)

No other program comes close to this depth. Learn more at https://zurl.co/hVv0J

Interested in group pricing?
📩 Reach out to Jose Cantanhede at [email protected]
or Call (984) 227-8564 Ext 1020

Your engineers are certified on the platform you sell. What happens when the client isn't running it?That's not a hypoth...
10/12/2026

Your engineers are certified on the platform you sell. What happens when the client isn't running it?

That's not a hypothetical for most reseller teams. A merger adds a second vendor. A client asks you to troubleshoot a network somebody else designed. The environment doesn't match the manual your people trained on.

Vendor certifications prove your team can execute one platform well, and that's worth having. What they don't cover is the 802.11 layer sitting underneath all of them. RF behavior, protocol operation, design methodology, security architecture. None of that changes when the logo does.

That's the layer CWNP certifications cover, and being vendor-neutral is the whole point. They sit alongside the credentials your engineers already hold rather than competing with them. Your team gets a shared technical language. You get something concrete to point at when a client asks what your people actually know.

If there's budget left in this quarter, it's worth scoping now rather than in December. Pick the track, confirm group pricing, get the POs moving while the line is still open.

Group pricing and team enrollment:
📩 [email protected]
📞 (984) 227-8564 Ext 1020

What's the bigger blocker for you, budget or engineer time?

📡 Wi-Fi Word of the Day: Uniform spreadingA regulatory requirement for a channel selection mechanism that provides unifo...
10/09/2026

📡 Wi-Fi Word of the Day: Uniform spreading

A regulatory requirement for a channel selection mechanism that provides uniform usage across a minimum set of channels in the regulatory domain.

Channel selection isn't purely an engineering decision. In some regulatory domains, it's partly a legal one.

Regulatory domains and RF design: https://zurl.co/xHMgm

Transition mode looks like the safe choice. It's usually the one quietly weakening your network.The reason it exists is ...
10/08/2026

Transition mode looks like the safe choice. It's usually the one quietly weakening your network.

The reason it exists is sound enough. You've got older clients that can't do SAE, you can't strand them, so transition mode lets both association methods coexist while you work through the migration. Where it goes wrong is when that temporary state becomes the permanent state and everyone starts describing the network as WPA3 protected.

It isn't, and the reason is simple: the network still accepts the older method, so an attacker just picks that path. You've bought compatibility and kept most of your original exposure.

The part that catches people out is client behavior. Devices don't all negotiate the same way, and a client that's perfectly capable of SAE can still land on the legacy method depending on how its supplicant is built. If you tested one laptop and moved on, you don't actually know what your fleet is doing.

Eva Santos broke down three of these traps, including what to use instead in each case. Worth ten minutes before you sign off on a migration plan.

Read it: https://zurl.co/FxZ15

Wireless security as a discipline, not a checkbox: https://zurl.co/15AHt

Are you running transition mode anywhere right now? What's holding the migration up?

Every generation since 802.11n sold itself on peak data rate. Wi-Fi 8 (802.11bn) doesn't. Its stated targets are about r...
10/07/2026

Every generation since 802.11n sold itself on peak data rate. Wi-Fi 8 (802.11bn) doesn't. Its stated targets are about reliability: at least 25% higher throughput in poor signal conditions, 25% lower latency at the 95th percentile, and 25% fewer dropped packets when a client roams between access points. Peak rate stays roughly where Wi-Fi 7 left it.

That shift matters for how you'll be judged. Nobody files a ticket because the theoretical maximum is too low. They file tickets because the scanner drops at the edge of the warehouse, or the voice call breaks during a roam. Those are the problems 802.11bn is aimed at, and they already fill your queue today.

Source: Samsung Research, IEEE 802.11bn (Ultra-High Reliability, Wi-Fi 8) https://zurl.co/HZafv

Build the foundation: https://zurl.co/EQGID

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