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Opening
Keynote Address
- 8am to 9am: Town
Meeting Continuation Mr.
Knapp will provide a continuation of the Opening Keynote address
given by Mr. Pepper. Get all the answers to questions you've
always wanted to ask the FCC.
Speaker
- Julius
Knapp, Deputy Chief
of the Commission's Office of Engineering and Technology, FCC,
Moderator:
- Michael
R. Anderson, Chairman, PART-15.ORG
9:00am
- 10:00am - Sessions
Administrative - Inc.,
Corp., LLC
- Which is best for you? Kris will be providing an overview of
the differences between which business category is best for you
and your WISP.
Speaker:
- Kris Twomey
Technical
- Wireless
Regulatory Panel Discussion - Among
the most pressing and controversial regulatory issues in the
wireless area today will be discussed.
Speaker:
- Robert
Primosch Partner
- Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP
Moderator:
Andrew
Kreig, President, Wireless
Communications Association International
Specialized
- Dealing
With Your Bandwidth Provider (Part 2)
- Your T1 continually experiences CRC errors, your monthly bill
is so screwed up even the provider can't figure it out, a
line gets cut somewhere and it takes days to have it repaired,
or you end up with a Class C address range that a previous
SPAMer was using and all your IP addresses seem to be blocked by
every Black List in the world. How to get the support you need
from your bandwidth provider is critical to not just your
business but also your reputation. Learn how to effectively get
your bandwidth provider moving on issues that could make or
break your WISP.
Speaker:
- Doug Hass
- COO,
ImageStream,
Kris Twomey
- Attorney
at law,
Robert
Primosch
-
Attorney at
Law
Configuration - Link-CX
High Speed Bridges
- TBA
Speaker:
- Michael Young - President
and Founder, YDI
Case Study - Profile
in Excellence - MTU Business Models - This
session provides experience in provisioning service to
Multi-Tenant Units. Apartment complexes, Condominiums, Hotels,
and more. Also covered in this session will be some billing,
authentication, and accounting fundamentals with the MTU in
mind.
Speaker:
- Pat Henkle, HyperEdge
10:00am
- 10:15am - Morning Refreshment Break/Visit Exhibitors (Sponsored
by Redline
Communications)
10:15am
- 11:15am - Sessions
Administrative - Overcoming
the Fear of ROI
- "If you build it, they will come" Well, maybe
not! As a small WISP, what should your Return on Investments realistically
be? One month, 3 months, 6 months or more. In this
session, the audience will be guided through many different ROI
models that will fit the small WISPs needs.
Speaker:
-
Jim
Hollis, President,
Internet Business Consulting
Technical
- Remote
Infrastructure
- Deploying your infrastructure is a very big step and many
times, this infrastructure could kill your business before you
even get 100 customers if not properly deployed to manage the
possibility of interference. This session will address
where to place and how to protect those remote WiPOPs.
Speaker:
- Jeremy Kinsey,
President,
MiaNet
Specialized
- Understanding
RF Fundamentals -
If you want a quick introduction to the fundamentals of
RF, this session is for you. Topics covered include basic radio
terms, antenna properties and simple calculations used in a
typical WISP operation. When you are done with this session, you
will have a good foundation to make sound antenna and radio
equipment selections and purchases.
Speaker:
- Michael
Radovich,
TBA, Telex Communications
Configuration - MikroTik Configuration -
Learn how to configure
various features of MikroTik RouterOS for use as Wireless Access
Point, CPE, Bandwidth shaper, or VPN box. Bridging of wireless
networks using WDS will also be discussed. Tools available at
RouterOS will be presented to aid network monitoring and
debugging.
Speaker:
- Arnis
Riekstins, Uldis Cernevskis, MikroTik
Case Study - Proxim
New Product Release -
Learn the newest and
hottest product lines from Proxim.
Speaker
- Ken
Rupple,
TBA, Proxim
11:15am
- 12:15pm - Sessions
Administrative - WISP
Employee Benefits -
Learn about small business retirement plans, health and medical
insurance programs and other benefits to take care of your
employees.
Speaker:
- TBA
Technical - Site
Surveys -
From running around with
NetStumbler/Snort to a full fledged Spectrum Analyzer, there is
a lot more to it than determining the noise floor. Fresnel
zones, LOS, NLOS, NrLOS, height, antennas, radio power, running
LMR or CAT5 and
Speaker:
-
Larsen,
Matt - Director
of Internet Services, AirWave Wireless
Specialized
- Bandwidth
Management Fundamentals - Have
you figured out where and how to shape your bandwidth yet? Maybe
you feel that bandwidth management is not one of your primary
concerns. Either way, this session will address many of the
issues of how, when and where to provide bandwidth management.
Speaker:
- Naveen
Chhangani, Technical Marketing Director, smartBridges
Configuration - ImageStream
Configuration - Being
one of the first
Speaker:
-
Doug Hass, COO, ImageStream
Case Study - Big
Advice for Small WISPs (Five 1,000+ CPE Operators Offer Their
Advice) - This
session will be a compilation of successes and errors made by
some of the worlds largest License Exempt WISPs. Learn how these
WISPs got to where they are today. The goods, the bads, and the
uglys.
Speaker:
- Patrick Leary, Assistant
VP, Marketing,
Alvarion
12:15pm
- 1:30pm - Lunch/Visit Exhibitors
1:30pm
- 2:30pm - Sessions
Administrative - Managing
the Sales Force -
Hiring, assembling,
training and managing a small, scalable sales force is a hassle.
Makes it easy with measurable and manageable with these proven
models for success, What to look for in a commission
salesperson. Hire racehorses, not plow horses
and watch them run with the right incentive program that is
profitable for both you and your sales force.
Speaker:
- James F. Ruffer III
Technical - Advanced
Routing (BGP/OSPF) -
Learn how
Speaker:
- Doug Hass, COO,
ImageStream
Specialized
- RADIUS
Authentication
- This session will
focus on
Speaker:
- Simon Lok,
President,
Lok Technologies, and
Jeremy Davis
Configuration - MRTG - Monitoring
your WISP with MRTG is easy unless your "technically
challenged" like me. This is one area that stumps me
as a WISP. This session will show you how to install, configure
and monitor your equipment, bandwidth, RSSI, SNR and a lot more,
and even offer these graphs to your customers.
Speaker:
- Josh
Easton,
MiaNet
Case Study - Motorola
Profile
in Excellence - TBA
Speaker:
- TBA, Motorola
2:30pm
- 3:30pm - Sessions
Administrative - Customer
Support - Providing
the technically challenged customer support can be time
consuming and costly. This session addresses the most cost
effective means of providing technical support.
Speaker:
- Doug Hass, COO,
ImageStream
Technical - "Cruisin"
for Authenticity - Large Scale Hotspots
- This will be a
Speaker:
- Eje Gustafsson and Brian Vargyas
Specialized - "Hot
Buttons for WISP Opportunities"
- Adding Multimedia, QoS, VoIP, & Security to your mix -
Two
challenges face service providers today, how to increase their
number of subscribers, and how to get more revenue from
those subscribers. These challenges will only increase,
as service providers build out their networks, and can no
longer
expect subscriber growth to only come from meeting
pent up demand for the service. This session examines how
to get
more revenue from subscribers and reduce customer
churn with value-added services.
Topics of discussion this panel could cover include:
"Will government regulations, technology or business
requirements affect the ROI for ISPs with new services
like VoIP as a result of changes in tax laws, HIPPA, FCC
regulations, CALEA, and P2P user identification
Panelists:
-Martha Zimet,
Andrew Kreig, Matt Larsen
Configuration
- WaveRider
Configuration -
Any
Speaker:
-
Case Study - Profile
in Excellence - 700MHz Deployment Experiences - Following
along with the discussion at WISPCON IV, this session we'll
discuss initial field test results of a recent 700MHz trial,
NLOS performance and general 700MHz market update.
Speaker:
- David Reeder, VP
Sales US, Airspan
Networks
3:30pm
- 3:45pm - Afternoon Refreshment Break/Visit Exhibitors (Sponsored
by IBC Consulting)
3:45pm
- 4:45pm - Sessions
Administrative - WISP
Financing/Loans/Leasing
-
Speaker:
-
Jim Hollis,
President,
Internet Business Consulting
Technical
- Hiding
from the Hackers
Speaker:
- Simon Lok, President,
Lok Technologies,
Jeremy Davis,
Specialized - Becoming
a CLEC (Pros and Cons)
Speaker:
- Kris Twomey,
Attorney, and Robert Primosch,
Attorney,
Wilkinson, Barker,
Knauer, LLP
Configuration - Trango
Configuration - TBA
Speaker:
-
Case Study - TBA
- TBA
Speaker:
- TBA
- TBA
Social
Gathering and Networking - Sponsored
by: Open
The "Infamous" Al's
Char-House Steak Dinner - For those of you
unaware - this is the ultimate steak house. If you enjoy a good
steak - You'll love this place. Please
make sure you sign up for the outing to ensure we make
appropriate reservations for everyone. To sign up, there will be
a roster at the registration booth and also at the message
center board.
The
entire group will get together at 6:30pm at the main WISPCON
Registration Booth and assign transportation at that time. Those
of you that have vehicles, please volunteer at that time to help
those who don't have transportation. We've managed to not
leave anyone behind so far....
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