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

Wednesday, October 29th - There will be three session tracts.

8:00am - 8:15am - PART-15.ORG Industry Awards Presentation:  - PART-15.ORG's Industry Awards will be presented to members of the Wireless Industry. Panelists:  PART-15.ORG President Michael Anderson, Director of Education and Training Lynn Kline and Steve Stroh, Editor in Chief, FOCUS. Additional Information regarding the Awards Program can be found here.  Presentation of the following awards:

 

Wireless Internet Service Provider of the Year

Wireless Manufacturer of the Year
Wireless Advocate of the Year

Wireless Reseller of the Year

Wireless Consultant of the Year

President's Choice Award

 

If you haven't already done so, please send your nominations in.

 

8:15am - 9:00am - Keynote Address:  - TBA

 

9:00am - 10:00am  - Sessions

 

Administrative - Using SNMP to Monitor and Manage Your Network  - Solutions for proactively monitoring and managing your wireless network, including performance trending to help identify issues that may affect your network.  

Panelists:  Jim Johnston, Dartware

Technical - Deploying in Various Environments - Most environments will require different approaches for different environments. Deploying a NEMA equipment box in Death Valley CA will have different needs than one being deployed in Northern Michigan. Mountains, trees, deserts and over-water deployments all requirement different approaches to accomplish the same things. Electrical power and Solar power are also discussed. 

Panelists:  Sinclair Frederick, 

Specialized - Other Users of The License Exempt Spectrum - This session will cover the many other users of the License Exempt Spectrum and will concentrate on HAM Operators HSMM/ARRL.

Panelists: Gerry Creager (N5JXH)

 

Configuration - Trango Broadband Configuration - This session will cover the various configurations, firmware and other installation procedures for the Trango product line.

Panelists: Tank Creagh, Product Support Manager, Trango Systems

 

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

 

10:15am - 11:15am  - Sessions 

Administrative - "Peer to Peer" Routing - If 

Panelists: John Tully, MikroTik, Doug Hass, Imagestream

 

Technical - MTU Fundamentals - Which equipment to use in Multi-Tenant locations is always a hard choice. In this session you'll learn what works well and what doesn't.
Panelists:  Allen Marsalis, ShreveNet, Daniel Ghansah, Smartwires

 

Specialized - VoIP - Policies, Procedures and Guidelines - One of the more intriguing applications of Wi-Fi and Wireless Networks is the carrying of voice services. This session will outline the voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) over Wi-Fi application and discuss its implications. As access to broadband data services becomes more commonplace, many homes and businesses are beginning to deploy telephony services based on IP technology.  New Internet Telephony Service Providers (ITSPs) are beginning to hang out their shingles every day.  This presentation begins with a brief technical overview of "legacy" telephony, and in that context presents a comparative introduction to VoIP.  Basic functionality and terminology is covered, followed by a detailed look at an example VoIP call. Which VoIP Technology? People dipping their toes into the world of VoIP soon find themselves inundated in terminology, derived from both the Internet world and the world of traditional telephony.  Within the VoIP world, several different fundamental technologies vie for market share. VoIP and 802.11b: can it be done? The suitability of 802.11b for the provision of VoIP is a subject of much discussion and not a little disagreement.  This session presents a real-life case study of the use of VoIP in an 802.11b network, focusing on contention, bandwidth requirements, QoS considerations, and codec selection.  A small wireless VoIP system will be brought up during the course of the presentation, and used as a platform to illustrate the various considerations and tradeoffs involved in the use of VoIP on wireless networks.
Panelists: Brian Capouch  

 

Configuration - Alvarion Troubleshooting - TBA

Panelists:  Chris Vainrib, Alvarion

 

 

11:15am - 12:15pm  - Sessions

 

Administrative - How To Select Your Bandwidth Provider - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of buying your bandwidth from the Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 Providers. The contracts, the "fine print", TOS, and much more is discussed along with how to avoid problems.

Panelists:  Charles Wu, CWLabs

Technical - 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:  Simon Lok, Lok Technology, Inc

Specialized - Inexpensive Licensed Backhaul Considerations,  - What does it take to use Licensed Spectrum inexpensively for those important wireless backhauls

Panelists:  Anthony Klinkert, General Managing, Klinkert & Associates

 

Configuration - Bizarre Troubleshooting - This is the ultimate session in resolving those hard to find problems.  

Panelists:  TBA

 

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

 

1:30pm - 2:30pm  - Sessions

 

Administrative - Bridging Rural America Open Forum - This is an Open Forum, where WISPs can discuss the potential for combining forces to offer customers world-wide roaming. The small WISP industry must jump on this opportunity quickly before the big guys deploy.

Panelists: Matt Larsen

Technical - WISP - Best Practices - This session is non-vendor specific and will cover many of the normal every-day things most WISPs overlook or tend to improvise. As an industry, every install the WISP completes is a reflection on the rest of the industry. Remember those Sprint installs with 15 foot masts, guy wires and tripods on homes? Those unsightly installs are probably not the best image for your company or mine. This session formalizes many of the general issues almost all WISPs can improve on.  

Panelists: Marlon Schafer, Odessa Office

Specialized - How To safely Climb a Tower - There is no way you'll learn everything there is to learn about safely climbing towers in one hour. However, we can provide a lot of highlights in that time. Where to buy harnesses, what not to strap onto, where to mount your antennas and where not to. Possible water-tower tour and safety demonstration. OSHA Requirements.
Panelists: Charles Wu, CWLabs

Configuration - StarOS Configuration - This relatively new Operating System provides an excellent solution for those looking for another option to the standard OS.

Panelists: Matt Larsen

 

 

2:30pm - 3:30pm  - Sessions 

 

Administrative - Technology Directions - Following the next generation of License Exempt Wireless 

Panelists:  Glen West, smartBridges

Technical - Advanced Routing (More Than 2 T1s) - 

Panelists: Doug Hass - ImageStream 

Specialized - The Consultant's Consultant - 

Panelists:  Michael Anderson, President, Prime Directive Corp. 

Configuration - Teletronics Configuration - This session will cover standard and unique configurations of the Teletronics AP's and CPE devices.  

Speaker: TBA, Teletronics

 

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

 

3:45pm - 4:45pm  - Sessions

 

 

WISPCON IV Closing Session  - A general review of all the aspects of the WISPCON III Conference. All interested parties are encouraged to come and provide their individual feedback to the conference staff. There might even be some beer left over.

 

Industry Awareness Programs  - This session will discuss a variety of ideas how best to promote the License Exempt Wireless Internet Industry World-Wide.  Numerous opportunities will be addressed.

Panelists: PART-15.ORG Members