- [Ashutosh] I'm gonna go and
augmented reality kicks in
(clicks)
(bouncy music)
here,
(pops)
(clicks)
(chants)
(chants)
(chants)
- [David] So show us about this demo.
I mean, what is this demo?
It's really, really good.
- Yeah, so what I'm gonna show you today
is an augmented reality app.
- Yep
- And the reason we built this
is, first of all,
with WiFi 6,
what we think is gonna happen is
we're gonna have a lot of good low latency
infrastructure, high bandwidth,
and also, not just that.
Because of high throughput,
because that means you
can have more devices
connecting to the WiFi.
- Yeah
- So what that enables
is the whole new set of
application builders,
like AI or RVI.
Think about it in retail.
You'll be able to go to a retail store
and check for prices on the shelves.
You want to get coupons, whatever.
Those kind of experiences
will start coming in.
In school or classes,
what's gonna happen is
more and more education is gonna be
more like "Hey, maybe you
wanna experience a war."
People will be wearing
their augmented reality,
or mixed reality glasses,
and then actually experience the whole war
that they're learning
about in the textbook.
So those kind of experiences
will start coming up now.
Now what we have done here is
we've built an application
and this is very specific to WiFi.
The main motivation
behind this application
is I am a field services engineer,
and somebody called me and said,
"Hey, the WiFi in this area is not good."
So typically what happens is
this WiFi engineer
he will actually
go in and start debugging,
pull up a couple of things.
One is show me the map.
Show me what AP's are around me.
So what we said is
with DNAC,
given that it's an open platform,
I have API's to access that information,
we built an application
that would actually help
this field services engineer.
So basically it has three features:
The first feature is about
show me the AP's that are around me.
So wherever I just walk in,
I'll be able to get the AP's
that are around me.
Now how do we get that information?
It's like wired DSSID
getting to figure out
what AP's are around us,
and then go and talk to the NAC
and get that information. That's one.
There are other tricks that we've played.
Like putting QR codes.
Doing actually like recognizing a QR code
or maybe a unique feature
and then showing it on our dashboard.
So that was the first feature.
The second feature is
about locating access points.
Now that you're telling me
that there are four access points,
I wanna know which direction
should I be looking towards.
So, for example, you can see here
it's telling me that AP3
is basically in this direction.
If I actually go and look around,
I'll actually see AP4
is in that direction.
- Oh wow!
- And I have a radar
view that is telling me
that this is the general area
where it is right now.
Right? And the last thing,
which is, now that I've
actually found that AP,
what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna actually
use a feature that we call Track the AP.
And here, what I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna go and
augmented reality kicks in
here.
Now you can see that it was
a regular AP over there.
And now--
- Oh wow.
- it's gonna improve the
augmented reality more.
Now the first feature that we have here
is called Get Me the Static
Information of the AP.
And given the MAC address of the AP,
I can go and create a DNAC
and get the information off that AP.
So it will give me information
like CL number, MAC address,
IP address--
- Oh wow.
- everything--
- That's really cool.
- in one touch.
Right? So that's what we call
a static information.
The second one is basically
the dynamic information.
So I want to know how many...
what channel it's connected on.
Tell me whether the four
antennas that are there,
are they enabled?
Because a lot of times,
there could be a misconfiguration,
where somebody will just
turn on two antennas.
And they'll say,
"Hey, I was expecting
better signal over here."
So you can see that,
and also what other type of SSID's
that it is broadcasting, right?
So that is the static information.
Now the third part,
which is pretty cool,
is the actual signal strength--
- Oh wow.
- of the AP.
So what you see here is
right now we're in the green.
What it tells you is
that we're pretty close.
Right, obviously.
So it's all beautiful.
But as we start moving back,
what we will see is an actual band
of how the signal is actually traversing.
- Oh wow.
- Okay, so this is a way...
Like you could actually be designing
or actually you get a feel of how
the network or the WiFi
signal is traversing
in your environment.
- So green is good, yeah?
- Green is good in this case, yeah.
So that way...
One of the things...
And, in fact, like we are trying
to make it even better,
so there are different views in this,
so, for example, I could actually have
a wave view as well.
Typically, if you want to see
if there are bouncings
and all those kind of information.
So these are the different
kind of waves that we can show.
Now, just as I said,
this is just a sample application
that we built,
but I am sure that
with Cisco opening up
a lot of their API's,
it's not just about creativity.
It's just a matter of how
creative people can get,
and start building applications.
- That's brilliant!
Thanks so much for the demo.
I really appreciate it.
- No worries at all!
- So how do they get this?
Is it free on DevNet, or...
- We are actually gonna put it out there.
So we are still deciding
whether it's gonna be a free tool.
Maybe it's gonna be
something that they need
to log in and download it.
We're still deciding on that.
- [David] But it won't be paid?
- It most likely won't be paid.
Most likely.
Because we want to offer this as a tool
that people can use in their environment.
- So I'm gonna say this:
"If you think this
application is really good,
"and if you want DevNet
to make it available,
"then please comment below this video.
"And also register on DevNet.
"Make sure that we let DevNet know
"that you're excited about this
"and that you want it.
"Because, with your feedback,
"hopefully, we can convince them
"to give it to us for free."
- Awesome!
- [David] Really appreciate it!
Thanks so much!
- No. Thank you!
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♪ Gotta do something ♪
♪ Get it right ♪
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