CWNP

10/22/2026

Wi-Fi is one protocol in a building running five. CWNP has a track for the other four.

CWISA is the entry point. It covers the wireless technologies that show up alongside Wi-Fi in real buildings: BLE, Zigbee, 802.15.4, LoRaWAN, Thread, 6LoWPAN, ISA100.11a, WirelessHART and Z-Wave, plus location services. Broad by design, because the environments are.

From there the track splits by what you actually do:

CWICP for connectivity. Protocol MAC and PHY behavior, security features, and troubleshooting across those standards in depth.

CWIIP for integration. MQTT, CoAP, DDS, AMQP, database and API work, and Python fundamentals for moving IoT data where it needs to go.

CWIDP for design. Requirements gathering, solution design, validation, and the documentation that supports deployment and operations.

CWISE sits at the top as the expert designation, alongside CWNE on the Wi-Fi side.

All of it vendor-neutral, which matters more in IoT than in Wi-Fi. Your clients aren't standardized on one IoT vendor. Nobody is.

If your team is being pulled into OT and building automation projects, Tom's session on OT IoT lessons is a useful starting point: https://zurl.co/okb9g

Explore the track: https://zurl.co/E711O

Group pricing for teams:
📩 [email protected]
📞 (984) 227-8564 Ext 1020

10/21/2026

Cellular gets most of the IoT coverage. It accounts for less than a quarter of the connections.

IoT Analytics put cellular IoT at 4.7 billion connections in 2025, growing 13.3%, the slowest rate since 2020. That's about 22% of the 21.1 billion IoT connections worldwide.

Which leaves roughly 78% running on something else. BLE, Zigbee, Wi-Fi, LoRaWAN, Thread, 802.15.4 and the rest. Short range, unlicensed, and largely sitting in the same spectrum your access points are using.

There's a reason that split matters to you specifically. Cellular IoT is somebody else's problem. It's provisioned by a carrier, it doesn't touch your WLAN, and when a metering device stops reporting, nobody walks over to your desk about it. The other 78% is different. It gets installed by facilities, or a building automation contractor, or an OT team, usually without a conversation with the network group. Then it shares your airtime.

When that mesh starts dropping and someone needs an answer, the ticket lands with you, because you're the person in the building who understands RF.

Source: IoT Analytics, Cellular IoT market update 2026 https://zurl.co/lIV0y

CWNP's IoT track starts with CWISA and covers those protocols vendor-neutrally: https://zurl.co/J611f

How many of these are live in your environment right now? Most people undercount.

In 2025, the number of cellular IoT connections reached 4.7 billion, up 13.3% year-over-year. NB-IoT was the leading cellular IoT tech...

10/20/2026

Quiz Time!!

You must configure a client to use WPA-PSK. What is the name of the built-in Windows 7 client which will be used as a supplicant?

You must select 1 answer

a) Windows wireless config
b) Windows wireless utility
c) Windows Zero Config utility
d) Windows suplicant utility

Drop your answers in comment section.

10/20/2026

Congrats to CWNE #644, Charles Clare!
Greensborough, Australia
https://zurl.co/glJil

10/19/2026

CWNP Remote Proctoring lets you test from home, on your schedule, without a trip to a testing center. No commute, no crowded testing center, just you, your setup, and a proctor who's there if you need them.

Swipe through to see what that experience has looked like for real candidates.

📍 All CWNP certifications offer remote proctoring except CWSS and CWTS.
📩 Questions? [email protected]

10/19/2026

Congrats to CWNE #643, Anas Fedoul!
Mohammadia, Morocco
https://zurl.co/l37ZB

10/16/2026

CWNA-110 study materials are in the store. CWNA-109 is still valid through December 2026. Here's how to choose.

If you're partway through CWNA-109 material and you're testing before the end of the year, finish what you started. The certification you earn is the same CWNA credential.
If you're starting fresh, or you're testing in 2027, go straight to CWNA-110. There's no reason to learn to a retiring objective set.

CWNA is the foundation the rest of the pathway is built on. CWAP, CWDP, and CWSP all assume it, and CWNE requires it. It's vendor-neutral, so what you learn applies across every platform you'll touch instead of one vendor's implementation.

Certification details: https://zurl.co/NVDtg
Study materials: https://zurl.co/c3htw

10/15/2026

WLPC Prague 2026 is a wrap. 🇨🇿

Three days of deep technical conversation, and one thing stood out: this industry runs on people who keep learning.

Seeing CWNEs in one room is a reminder of what that commitment looks like. These are engineers who’ve put in the work, validated it, and keep pushing the standard forward for everyone behind them.

Thank you to Keith Parsons and the WLPC team for building a space where that happens, and to everyone who stopped by to talk certifications, workforce development, and where wireless goes next.

See you at the next one.

10/14/2026

You can explain 802.11ax in your sleep. Can you explain 802.15.4?

For a lot of wireless engineers the honest answer is no, and that gap is getting expensive.

802.15.4 is the layer sitting underneath Zigbee, Thread, 6LoWPAN, WirelessHART, and ISA100.11a. When a building automation vendor, a facilities team, or an OT group brings sensors into your environment, that's usually what arrives. It shares the 2.4 GHz band with your Wi-Fi. It has its own channel plan. It behaves nothing like an 802.11 client.

So when the sensor mesh gets flaky and someone asks the Wi-Fi person to look at it, "that's not my protocol" stops being a useful answer. You're the one in the building who understands RF.

Tom Carpenter's breakdown of 802.15.4 covers the bands, data rates, and where it actually fits. It's a solid starting point.

Read it: https://zurl.co/ulr2G

CWISA is where the structured version of this lives. It's the entry point to CWNP's IoT track and it covers 802.15.4, BLE, Zigbee, LoRaWAN, Thread, Z-Wave and more, vendor-neutral, so the knowledge transfers whoever built the gateway.

Start here: https://zurl.co/xsYjG

Has non-Wi-Fi IoT landed on your plate yet?

10/13/2026

Good to catch up with Troy Martin, Peter Mackenzie, and Michael Blum, CWNE Board Member, in Prague today.