While working on a wireless mouse dongle, Ryan and company noticed RF interference and turned lemons into lemonade: They repurposed the USB dongle as a spectrum analyzer and started a company to make this formerly esoteric technology accessible.Īlthough MetaGeek’s Wi-Spy is nowhere near as full-featured as the big guys, it’s far more accessible at 1/10 the cost. One of my personal favorite presentations at Wireless Field Day in March was the awesome startup tale told by Ryan Woodings, founder of MetaGeek.

Both work together to enable spectrum analysis and site surveying on portable devices – smart phones and tablets.

One such pairing was two Wi-Fi analysis companies, MetaGeek and Ekahau. Companies like NEC, Synology, Ciphertex, and Endace may have gone unnoticed in the shadows of towering booths of the industry titans but deserve attention. The most interesting products and companies at Interop Las Vegas 2011 were found around the edges of the show floor. Ekahau and MetaGeek are working together to bring Wi-Fi site surveying and spectrum analysis to the masses in a portable format

Ekahau spectrum analyzer