802.11 Planet Conference & Expo, Santa Clara, CA - December 3

Review of basic WLAN RF technology
Access Point and NIC critical features
Optimized WLAN design process
  -- What to cover?
  -- What tools do you need?
  -- How to save your budget and sanity
  -- Real-world design examples: Office, Campus, Warehouse
Six common problems and their solutions

Speaker:
Jesse Frankel, Chief Strategy Officer & VP Advanced Technology, Neo5 Wireless

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Lunch Break

1:00pm - 3:00pm

RF Site Survey Basics: Equipment and Techniques for Maximizing WLAN Performance
As you plan your 802.11 network, you'll want to prepare a site survey to identify potential problem spots and address them before the implementation stage. This session covers the ins and outs of a site survey, with the following steps explicitly covered:

Speaker:
Jesse Frankel, Chief Strategy Officer & VP Advanced Technology, Neo5 Wireless

3:00pm - 3:15pm

Break

3:15pm - 5:15pm

Two Workshops will be held during this time

3:15pm - 4:15pm
WLAN Ease of Use: Simplifying the Task of the IT Manager and End Use
In this session, we will discuss the usability issues that must be addressed within a WLAN deployment. Discussion will focus on the range of IT management tasks, including WLAN policy definition and configuration, network preparation, access point deployment, access point setup, and active monitoring and intrusion detection. We will also consider the end user experience, including the need for easy network configuration, seamless network access, and simplified security procedures. We will consider various approaches to simplifying these usability issues, including the role of integrated WLAN platform solutions.
Sandeep Singhal, Chief Technical Officer, ReefEdge, Inc.

4:15pm - 5:15pm
TBA

ROOM 203/204

10:00am - 3:00pm

WLAN Security Tutorial (see below)
This two-part, four-hour workshop is designed to give administrators of traditional and wireless LANs an overview of the well-publicized security issues involved with WLAN and provide examples of tools and techniques to mitigate WLAN security risks. Attendees should have solid network administration experience and a basic working knowledge of WLANs. Prior security knowledge is not required.

Instructors:
Diana Kelley, Security Services Practice Leader, Baroudi Group
Lisa Phifer, Vice President, Core Competence, Inc.

10:00am - 12:00pm

Part 1: Foundations Of WLAN Security
This portion of the workshop presents an overview of the security issues involved with the deployment of a WLAN and explains the aspects of WLAN technology that are germane to security. It then details the most common vulnerabilities (such as spoofing and eavesdropping) and demonstrates some of the detection tools (such as sniffers, analyzers, and intrusion detection systems) administrators can use to help them protect their networks.

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm - 3:00pm

Part 2: Building Your WLAN Securely
Students in Part 2 will be expected to be familiar with the contents of Part 1. In order to participate in the student exercises, students must bring their own laptop with an 802.11b NIC.

The second-hands-on-part of this workshop builds on the information from Part I and provides a series of steps or lessons to guide administrators in creating a WLAN sufficiently secure for its intended purpose. Users will be able to participate in client exercises that allow them to authenticate to Access Points at increasing levels of security (WEP, 802.1x, SSL), and instructors will provide examples to help avoid some common WLAN security pitfalls. Session concludes with a "Deployment Checklist" for administrators.

3:00pm - 3:15pm

Break

3:15pm - 5:15pm

Securing Hotspot Connections
As a Wi-Fi hot spot user, what can you do to protect yourself - simply, at little or no cost?
As a wISP, how do you educate users and companies about hot spot vulnerabilities and their need to take appropriate security measures?
This panel discusses hot spot security risks, user vulnerabilities, measures that can be applied to clients and servers, and the challenges that lie therein.

Moderator:
Glenn Fleishman, Freelance Technology Journalist
Speakers:
Lisa Phifer, Vice President, Core Competence, Inc.
Cliff Skolnick, CTO, Iron Systems, Inc.

ROOM 210

Crash Preparation Course for Certified Wireless LAN Professional (CWLP) Certification (see below)
The rapid proliferation of wireless LANs in business, educational, governmental, and civic organizations has created a huge need for administrators trained in the specifics of this technology. Today's equivalent of the CNA and CNE (Novell) certifications that were de rigueur in the '90s is the Certified Wireless LAN Professional credential, endorsed by the Wireless LAN Association and the National Association of Communications Systems Engineers.
This six-hour intensive 'cram' course presents an in-depth, vendor-neutral review of 802.11 wireless networks and covers the fundamental requirements for passing the CWNP exam. A sample exam in both hardcopy and Palm (electronic) format is included, as well as a complimentary copy of Planet3 Wireless's Official Certified Wireless Network Administrator™ (CWNA™) Study Guide.

Instructor:
Francis Rabuck , President, Rabuck Associates

10:00am - 12:00pm

Wireless LAN Certification Preparatory, Part 1

Wireless Organizations, Standards and Terminology
Fundamentals and Math of Radio Frequency, Spread Spectrum and Antennas

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Lunch Break

1:00pm - 3:00pm

Wireless LAN Certification Preparatory, Part 2

Hardware Components and Configuration
Planning, Managing, and Troubleshooting Wireless LANs

3:00pm - 3:15pm

Break

3:15pm - 5:15pm

Wireless LAN Certification Preparatory, Part 3

Network Architectures
Security Policy, Problems and Solutions

Solutions

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