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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 - Terms
of Service Offerings
- Solutions
Speaker:
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Technical
- WiMAX
Forum
- 802.16a is now in
Revision D. I didn't know that? The IEEE 802.16 Air Interface
Standard is truly a state-of-the-art specification for fixed
broadband wireless access systems employing a
point-to-multipoint (PMP) architecture.
Speaker:
- David Reeder, VP
Sales US, Airspan
Networks, Kevin Suitor,
Vice President of
Business Development,
Redline
Communications, Patrick Leary, Assistant
VP, Marketing,
Alvarion
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.
Speaker:
- Charles Wu, CWLabs
Configuration - Teletronics Configuration
- This session will cover the
various configurations, firmware and other installation
procedures for the Teletronics product line.
Speaker:
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Case Study - On
the Road Doesn't Have to Mean Out of Touch
- TBA
Speaker:
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10:00am
- 10:15am - Morning Refreshment Break/Visit Exhibitors
10:15am
- 11:15am - Sessions
Administrative - Customer
Privacy -
If the FBI, local
police or an agent from Homeland security knocked on your door
this afternoon, what would you do? Give them everything, give
them nothing, ask for a warrant or simply call your attorney?
This session is designed to provide you with general discussions
on what you could be help liable for.
Speaker:
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Technical - WISP
Exist Strategies
- Each WISP should be deploying their equipment and maintaining
their business one ONE concept in mind - Retirement!!! The panel
in this session will provide insight on how to plan and deploy
your WISP with the understanding that someday, you are either
going to sell-out to, or buy-out another WISP. Learn how to
establish and maintain a WISP that others will want to buy and
what will get you the most money for all your efforts.
Speaker:
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Specialized - Using
SNMP to Monitor and Manage Your WISP
- One of the
Speaker:
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Configuration - Tranzeo
CPE
Configuration -
These
Speaker:
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Case Study -
Municipal Money
- Examples
of WISPs that leveraged municipal relationships, grants,
customers, etc., to help fund infrastructure, gain high value
stable customers, tower access, etc. No WISP will want to miss
this session.
Speaker:
- Patrick Leary,
TBA,
Alvarion
11:15am
- 12:15pm - Sessions
Administrative - The
Thrill is Gone - Selling Your WISP
- The Good, the Bad, and
the Ugly of Selling your WISP. Most WISPs put their heart
and sole in their operations. But from a buyers standpoint, all
that hard labor, cold Sunday morning climbs and 2:00am phone
calls won't mean much when it comes to determining a fair-market
value for your WISP. Like family heirlooms, most WISPs will feel
that all their efforts should be compensated for during the
buyout. However, the buyers are most likely more concerned with
the future and not the past. They will want to see tower leases,
customer contracts, churn rate information and data that will convince
them that the purchase will return a profit in the future. Do
you sell your WISP based on income generated, an X factor per
customer, or are there more creative ways to sell a WISP?
Selling a WISP is not the same as selling a ISP and since the
WISP industry is relatively new, how does one determine a
fair-market value of the small WISP?
Speaker:
-
Technical
- Deploying
in Various Environments
- Not just another
Speaker:
-
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.
Speaker:
- Brian
Capouch
Configuration -
Speaker:
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Case Study - The
Awesome Power of OFDM
- This
session presents how Point-to-Point broadband wireless
technology has advanced and some of the technical hurdles to
overcome in making it business class/carrier-grade even in
demanding non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environments. The session
will also use real-world examples of WISPs, both in rural and metropolitan
locations, that are using carrier-grade NLOS wireless broadband
to satisfy a number of business customer demands.
Speaker:
- Phil Bolt, Orthogon Systems
12:15pm
- 1:30pm - Lunch/Visit Exhibitors
1:30pm
- 2:30pm - Sessions
Administrative - WISP
Business Models -
Do you provide unlimited bandwidth for a flat fee? Do you
concentrate on the residential or business markets?
Speaker:
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Technical
- It's
More than an Internet Connection -
This session is designed to provide additional money making
opportunities for the WISP. Providing the last mile connectivity
is but one service you could be offering your customers.
Speaker:
- Dimitrious
Specialized
- E-Rate
Program Overview
- Here is a Federal Program
Speaker:
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Configuration
- Asterisk
Configuration - This
relatively new Operating System provides an excellent solution
for those looking for another option to the standard OS.
Speaker:
-
Brian
Capouch
Case Study - Canadian
WISP Forum
- TBA
Speaker:
- Open Forum
2:30pm
- 3:30pm - Sessions
Administrative - WISP
Taxation
- What are the Federal, State and Local tax burdens for the
WISP? Do you pay taxes on your bandwidth, do your customers have
to pay you taxes for the services you're providing? This session
is a "general"
Speaker:
-
Technical
- Wireless
and Homeland Security
- Wireless Security (using 3DES or AES?) What are Government
Requirements for Homeland Security Act Wireless Security and
Wireless CCTV Options.
Speaker:
- Phil Metcalf, Hutton
Specialized
- The
Paperwork - E-Rate Documentation
- Having learned about
the E-Rate program in the preceding session, this session is
designed to provide the much needed assistance in completing all
the necessary paperwork associated with the program.
Speaker:
-
Configuration
-
Speaker:
TBA,
TBA
Case Study - Measuring
Your ROI
- If
you are only looking at your monthly bank account statements to
see if you're making good money, you could be headed for
financial ruin. Before you make too many of your deployment
decisions, a successful WISP needs the capability to determine
how much to spend and how much that expense will bring them in
the future.
Speaker:
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3:30pm
- 3:45pm - Afternoon Refreshment Break/Visit Exhibitors
3:45pm
- 4:45pm - Sessions
Administrative - Budget
Saving Strategies
- Following the
Speaker:
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Technical
- Mesh Myths and Misconceptions - There
are a lot of misconceptions about mesh and its place in the WISP
tool bag. In this session we'll discuss the Mesh concept, not as
a product but actual case studies and give out free software as
a bonus.
Panelists:
David Peterson,
TBA,
Ultramesh
Speaker:
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Specialized
-
Speaker:
-
Configuration
-
Speaker:
Case Study -
Speaker:
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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.
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