On the Thursday of CEDIA 2025, I stepped away from the very busy SpecOp Secure booth for a few minutes to sit in on the Smart Stage cybersecurity session. The seats were mostly full, but I was surprised there weren’t more integrators there. It was more surprising because I had spent the previous two days
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Why Wi-Fi Calling Fails, and What Integrators Can Do About It Note for integrators: You might know this as a cellular amplification system. The industry term for it is cellular DAS (Distributed Antenna System). Same concept, better results. This blog breaks it down. I don’t know about you all, but I’m still recovering from the
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The Integrator’s Troubleshooting Trap You get the call: “My Apple TV won’t connect.” Or “The printer keeps disappearing from the network.” Maybe it’s the smart lights that stopped responding again—or another dropped FaceTime call. You show up and do what most integrators do: unplug the access point, reboot the modem, maybe swap the switch. Sometimes
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Like you, I’m a card carrying CE Pro subscriber. My Monday morning ritual is coffee in one hand, phone in the other, skimming headlines before the day kicks in. When Farr Shepherd’s session landed front and center in “Making the Most of the Educational Sessions at CEDIA Expo 2025” (check it out), I realized I wasn’t
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