Deep Dive into the Mist Cloud - Mist Systems

The Mist learning WLAN gives unprecedented visibility into the mobile user experience. To achieve this, Mist Access Points track over 100 pre- and post- connection states for every Wi-Fi client, which are sent to the Mist Cloud every few seconds where multiple machine learning algorithms use the data to provide actionable insights. In addition, machine learning in the Mist Cloud is used to calculate the location of mobile users with high accuracy and low latency (see figure 1 below for a network topology). The Mist Cloud consists of proprietary machine learning algorithms running on top of a variety of open source and in-house distributed systems. As one can imagine, scalability and reliability are critical to the Mist cloud, as is real-time performance to handle various different types of real-time streaming data.