Last Thursday, I made the trek from Michigan to Las Vegas to play my small part in the iLabs VoIP: Wireless and Security Team.

A month ago, the team had gathered in Belmont, CA for Hot Stage, which is where we assembled, configured and tested all of the equipment and software that we intend to demonstrate at the Interop 2007 show in the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.

Last year we had done some basic testing of various 802.11b/g handsets with limited success, due to the enormous amount of Access Points on the show floor.

This year we wanted a bit more control over the RF environment. To control the variables and limit the effect of the RF saturated environment of the show floor, we decided to build a walk in Faraday Cage.

At Hot Stage, Jed Daniels built a prototype Faraday Cage, as a proof of concept. His results gave us a fair amount of confidence, so we made the decision to scale up our operation.

However, As Matthew Gast illustrates, building a walk-in Faraday Cage is much harder than a small prototype.

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