Who is Mist?
The
Mist team consists of leading experts in wireless, machine learning, and cloud,
who are responsible for building the largest and most advanced networks in the
world. Founded in June 2014, the company is based in Cupertino, CA and funded
by top investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture
Partners, GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Cisco Investments.
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Mist
built the first wireless platform for the Smart Device era. By taking a
user-first approach to networking, the Mist Intelligent Wireless Cloud (IWC)
eliminates the operational burdens of legacy wireless architectures by
replacing human interaction with machine learning and proactive automation.
Why did we start?
Legacy
Wireless LAN (WLAN) systems were all built prior to the invention of
Smartphones and the modern cloud. As a result, they lack the scale needed to
handle today’s wireless needs. Furthermore, they still are very manual to
manage, resulting in a reactive approach to wireless operations that is expensive
and ineffective. Finally, legacy wireless systems don’t take advantage of
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for high accuracy location services. They lack BLE
accuracy and performance and are difficult to setup and maintain. Mist was
created to solve all these challenges by building a modern wireless platform
for the smart device era.
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At
the core of the Mist platform is our purpose-built cloud architecture, which is
the first of its kind to leverage micro services to bring Software as a Service
(SaaS) agility to wireless networks. In addition, the Mist Intelligent Wireless
Cloud (IWC) leverages modern cloud elements for containerization, elastic
scale, multi-tenancy and fault tolerance to enable seamless growth and
real-time responsiveness.
Also strategic to the Mist platform are our
enterprise-grade Access Points, which deliver the best Wi-Fi and BLE range and
performance. All Mist APs have extra radios for collecting data and enforcing
policies in conjunction with the Mist cloud, and they contain an expansion port
for Internet of Things (IoT).
Machine
learning is used to automate many of the manual tasks associated with Wi-Fi
operations, such as event correlation and dynamic packet capture. In addition,
it is used to constantly adapt location estimates based on changing device and
environmental conditions.
How
does Mist Wi-Fi Assurance save me money?
Machine
learning simplifies wireless operations and reduces the Mean Time to Repair
(MTTR) common problems by hours or days. This saves the average Mist customer’s
cost by 40% or more on ongoing Wi-Fi operations costs. In addition, Mist
eliminates the need for onsite visits for packet sniffing and site surveys. As
each site visit can cost upwards of $2,000, this in and of itself can justify
and investment in the Mist solution.