WISPCON II - Session Details - Over 100 hours of intense learning will be available and at your finger tips.  

Monday, Oct 7th - There will be four Session Tracts PLUS a Repeat Track for those more popular sessions. To ensure Repeat sessions are available make sure you identify your needs by taking this attendance questionnaire.

8:00am - 9:00am - Keynote Address:  - The State of the WISP Community Address. Panelists:  - Steve Stroh, Editor, Stroh Publications

 

Who We Are

Where We Come From
Where We're Going

 

All Day Sessions - This all day session is designed with the novice in mind, although you'll still see some familiar faces in attendance who have been deploying wireless for a while now.

 

YDI's - Using License Free Bands for High Speed Wireless Internet Access - Speaker:  - Michael Young - Founder & President - YDI
     This is the all day YDI training session that you would normally pay over $169.00 to attend.

     Provide you with all the beginning tools such as terminology and wireless concepts.

     It is also an EXCELLENT preparation for the rest of the conference.

     Michael Young is a very dynamic speaker focused on providing you with the information you need.

 

Using license-free radio bands, ISPs can set up their own wireless Internet Infrastructure to offer fixed High Speed Wireless Internet services to customers.  This technology is competitive with high-speed DSL services but completely bypasses the local Telco's. This is a technical presentation geared to "non-radio" Internet and Networking managers and engineers who want to learn more details about the technical ins and outs of using the license-free radio bands for high-speed Wireless Internet. It is custom tailored for WISP's and a must for new WISP's or those thinking of becoming one. It is the formal compilation of the hundreds of questions and issues that come up again and again. One way or another, WISP's will have to learn this stuff. Many do it the hard way on their own. Those that come to this presentation will get most of what they need to know in one comprehensive session.

 

9:00am - 10:00am  - Sessions

 

Administrative - See YDI All Day Seminar

 

Technical - RF Fundamentals - Learn RF basic principles, propagation and other issues related to radio frequencies.

Panelists: Kevin Moyher, Product Manager, Commercial Assemblies, Times Microwave

Moderator: TBA

Specialized - Routing Basics - Why routing instead of bridging - need more IPs, understand the mysteries of ARIN - Need more bandwidth for your existing CLASS C, do you IMUX, IP CEF, BGP - Where to  place your Cisco and Mikrotik routers in your infrastructure - should you use dynamic or static routing

Panelists: Neal Rauhauser, Fred Bauer, Cofounder, Vivere Networks

Moderator: Allen Marsalis, President, ShreveNet

 

Repeat/Add-On - Canopy Wireless Platform  - This session will include an overview of the Canopy Wireless Internet Platform as a "Fixed Wireless Access Solution". The presentation will focus on many of the Canopy's unique characteristics including performance, interference tolerance and range capabilities. Following the presentation will be an question and answer period. 

Panelists: Charles Macenski, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff - Motorola's Broadband Wireless Technology Center

Moderator: TBA

 

10:00am - 10:15am  - Morning Refreshment Break/Visit Exhibitors

 

10:15am - 11:15am  - Sessions 

 

Administrative - See YDI All Day Seminar

Technical - Antenna Basics & Selection - Learn which antenna is best for specific applications. Antenna theory, patterns, ranges, capabilities, polarization, Front to Back ratios and what that means, Beamwidth, how to measure actual gain. Cable loss and how it effects the antenna output. Amps, when and when not to use them and what this does to the antenna output.

Panelists: Kevin Moyher, Product Manager, Commercial Assemblies, Times Microwave

Moderator: TBA

Specialized - Routing "A Bit More" - A deeper look into the various routing issues and solutions effecting the WISP.

Panelists: Neal Rauhauser, Fred Bauer, Cofounder, Vivere Networks

Moderator: TBA

 

Repeat/Add-On - Homeland Security - Millions are being made available in the effort to battle domestic terrorism and keep Americans safe. Discover what Alvarion is doing to help these efforts and find out why WISPs are the ideal providers to deliver secure mobile broadband.

Panelists: Patrick Leary - Chief Evangelist, Alvarion

Moderator: TBA

 

11:15am - 12:15pm  - Sessions

 

Administrative - See YDI All Day Seminar

Technical - Cable Characteristics - This session will acquaint you with the basic design concepts of coaxial cables, the performance advantages and disadvantages of different available cables and connectors, and proper connector installation methods. Also covered will be the installation of accessories such as ground kits, and weather-proofing kits along with loss (attenuation) calculations. 

Panelists: Kevin Moyher, Product Manager, Commercial Assemblies, Times Microwave

Moderator: TBA

Specialized - RADIUS Authentication/Accounting - Not just another RADIUS solution. Learn how to use RADIUS to track and maintain control of your bandwidth, bill for appropriate bandwidth usage,  

Panelists: Gene Chang - Vice President of Strategic Business Development, FUNK Software, Allen Marsalis, President, ShreveNet

Moderator: TBA

 

Repeat/Add-On - Mesh Networking - Learn and understand the technology behind Mesh Networking from the experts who patented the peer-to-peer routing technology, which enables a mobile broadband solution that supports voice, video, and data at speeds of up to 6Mbps that creates the fully distributed, fully meshed architecture. Learn how these self-forming, self-healing, self-balancing architectures will enhance your WISP strategies to go beyond mobile Internet solutions by it's built-in geo-location capabilities.

Panelists: Terrell Brown, Market Strategist, MeshNetworks

Moderator: TBA

 

12:15pm - 1:30pm  - Lunch/Visit Exhibitors 

 

1:30pm - 2:30pm  - Sessions

 

Administrative - See YDI All Day Seminar

Technical - Radio Selections - FH or DS; Licensed or Unlicensed; speed/throughput needs; bridging or routing; indoor vs. outdoor; 802.11b or Proprietary. These and many other radio selection issues are covered.

Panelists: Marlon Schafer, Owner, Odessa Office,  John Ray III, Product Manager, Cirronet, 

Moderator: Mitch Vine - WaveRider Communications Inc

Specialized - VPN's and IPSec - Did you know that VPN's seldom work when latency is above 100ms? learn this a lot more. VPN/IPSec is a key part of wireless LAN/WAN strategy. There are many scaling and deployment problems in using VPNs for WLAN security.

Panelists: Gene Chang - Vice President of Strategic Business Development, FUNK Software, Dr. Butch Anton, CTO - Gemtek Systems 

Moderator: Larry Yunker - President, CBCast

 

Repeat/Add-On - Mixed Spectrum Advantages - With the emergence of a wide array of 5GHz products, it is time to toss out your 2.4GHz? Alvarion does not think so and wants to show you why the smartest operators will be mixing it up to maximize revenue, capacity and to protect legacy investments.

Panelists: Patrick Leary - Chief Evangelist, Alvarion

Moderator: TBA

 

2:30pm - 3:30pm  - Sessions 

 

Administrative - See YDI All Day Seminar

Technical - WOFDM - (NLOS) Fundamentals - No that doesn't stand for Wow-OFDM, One of the key challenges facing a WISP in designing and deploying a network is achieving excellent coverage of the target area. With its resistance to Multipath effect, W-OFDM has significant advantages in NLOS operation while maintaining a high spectral efficiency. The basics of W-OFDM are described in this presentation with emphasis on the NLOS performance. Test results and use cases from the field are described confirming the performance of Wireless Data Communications using W-OFDM

Panelists: Dr. El-Hamamsy, Chief Operating Officer - Wi-Lan

Moderator: TBA

Specialized - BGP/OSPF Fundamentals/Bonding T1s - If you have or plan to have more than one T1 this session is a must to tie them together so you can sleep better at night knowing that if one T1 goes down, the other one automatically picks up the slack.

Panelists: Fred Bauer, Cofounder, Vivere Networks

Moderator: Larry Yunker - President, CBCast

 

Repeat/Add-On - Deploying Wireless Equipment in Outdoor Enclosures  - TBA. 

Panelists: Peter J. Chase, President - Purcell Systems

Moderator: TBA

 

3:30pm - 3:45pm  - Afternoon Refreshment Break/Visit Exhibitors

 

3:45pm - 4:45pm  - Sessions

 

Administrative - See YDI All Day Seminar

Technical - Line of Sight and Path Analysis - Hah! I bet you can't even pronounce "Fresnel" Zone! (hehehe The "s" is silent") Learn everything you need to know about ensuring you're getting the best link quality you can. Line of Sight, Path Analysis, Fade Margin and lots more.

Panelists: Allen Marsalis, President, ShreveNet, Chris Wyard, Engineer - WaveRider Communications

Moderator: TBA

Specialized - VoIP Fundamentals - Creating value for resellers and end-users VoIP delivered over fixed wireless offers a compelling value proposition for resellers and customers. Many resellers need a feasible solution to round out their product offerings, customers demand it for its promise of flexibility and savings – so where is it? This panel will take you through the current available VoIP solutions, the system requirements and the reality of deploying consumer and SME VoIP platforms over wireless broadband. You will learn what works, what doesn’t and what’s next.

Panelists: Michael Centrella, Vice President, Reseller and Affiliate Sales - Vonage

Moderator: Charles Wu, CWLab

 

Repeat/Add-On - The Router Revolution  - The Router Revolution is a paradigm shift that is changing the way people think about routers. Everyday, new companies join the Router Revolution by abandoning slower, more expensive routers from traditional manufacturers like Cisco Systems. and adopting a new breed of low cost, high performance routers that use off-the-shelf PC and WAN card components. This presentation discusses the advantages of deploying routers that use off-the-shelf components. 

Panelists: Doug Hass, Executive Vice President/COO, Imagestream Internet Solutions

Moderator: TBA

 

Social Gathering and Networking  - Sponsored by: Open

 

PART-15.ORG Networking  - PART-15.ORG members will be discussing, among other things, training agreements with manufacturers and resellers, organizational objectives, and membership issues. All interested parties may attend.  Location TBA