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Opening
Keynote Address
- 8am to 9am: FCC's
Wireless Broadband
Task Force Review - Lauren
Van Wazer, Head of the FCC Wireless Broadband Taskforce, FCC,
will provide an overview on the FCC's Wireless Broadband Task
Force.
Ms. Lynn
Kline, Vice-Chairman of PART-15.ORG will announce this years
Spring License Exempt Industry Awards
Moderator:
- Michael
R. Anderson, Chairman, PART-15.ORG
9:00am
- 10:00am - Sessions
Administrative - WISP
Insurance and Finding, Growing & Defending Your Market Niche
- TBA.
Speaker:
- Jeremy Kinsey, MiaNet
Technical
- Steve
Stroh's FOCUS on the WISP Industry - Dealing
with the Wireless Telco, Municipal Wireless, what the big WISPs
are doing right, what WiMAX isn't for the WISP, MESH is
"really" back and to stay this time, the "Rise of
the Stupid Network, what to expect in the 700MHz in the next
year, HSMM, and lots more are discussed.
Speaker:
- Steve Stroh
Specialized
- Virtual
WISPs - This
session addresses a unique opportunity for non-WISPs as well as
WISP operators. Not unlike how the Dial-up operators have grown,
WISPs can enjoy an ever-popular advantage of roaming, or
reselling another WISPs services
Speaker:
- Jim Hollis, IBC
Configuration - Redline
AN-50 Configuration
- The
Redline AN-50 features a robust platform in both Point to Point
and Point to Multipoint.
Speaker:
- Dave Rumore,
Redline Communications
10:00am
- 10:15am - Morning Refreshment Break (Sponsored
by TBA)
10:00am
- Exhibit Hall Opens
10:15am
- 11:15am - Sessions
Administrative - Don't
Try This at Home - This
session addresses many of the typical mistakes most WISPs make.
Things that work and don't work "in the real world".
Problems and solutions will be covered. These four stooges have
more going for them than just the infamous Limo-Ride. Like every
single one of us WISPs, we've all made mistakes and some of
those were costly ones. This panel will concentrate on mistakes
most WISPs make and the solutions found to fix them .
Panelists:
- Larry Yunker, Rick Kunze,
Stuart Pierce and Jeremy Kinsey (Larry,
Moe and Curly (and Jer))
Technical
- Video-On-Demand
and Wireless
- Learn
what you can and can't do when putting video on your wireless
links.
Speaker:
- Richard Ho, Inscape
Specialized
- Spectrum
Analyzer Fundamentals
- License
Exempt means some level of interference should be expected.
Determining how much, where it is coming from and what is needed
to overcome it is a major source of frustration within the
License exempt WISP community. This session is designed to help
you learn how to determine where the interference is
coming from, how much interference there really is and a in-depth
look at how spectrum analyzers can help you with interference
matters.
Speaker:
- Tom Duckworth, Director
Quality System Engineering Support, XL
MicroWave
Configuration - WaveRider
Configuration - This
session is designed to assist the attendees in the configuration
and deployment characteristics of WaveRider's 900MHz NLOS
product line.
Speaker:
- Rod Cronin, Director,
Customer and Technical Support, WaveRider
Communications
11:15am
- 12:15pm - Sessions
Administrative - Don't
Try This at Home - This
session addresses many of the typical mistakes most WISPs make.
Things that work and don't work "in the real world".
Problems and solutions will be covered. These four stooges have
more going for them than just the infamous Limo-Ride. Like every
single one of us WISPs, we've all made mistakes and some of
those were costly ones. This panel will concentrate on mistakes
most WISPs make and the solutions found to fix them .
Panelists:
- Larry Yunker, Rick Kunze,
Stuart Pierce and Jeremy Kinsey (Larry,
Moe and Curly (and Jer))
Technical - Advanced
Routing Fundamentals - Now
that you've been to through the basics of networking and
routing, it's time to get into the real hard core routing
issues.
Speaker:
- ImageStream
Specialized
- Broadband
to MDU/MTU
Fundamentals
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This
session will cover the many different aspects of providing
broadband to multi-tenant and multi-dwelling units.
The many different considerations envolved for backhauls, CPE,
bandwidth control and much more,
Speaker:
- Naveen
Chhangani
Configuration - Inscape
Data
- TBA
Speaker:
- Richard Ho
12:15pm
- 1:30pm - Lunch/Visit Exhibitors
1:30pm
- 2:30pm - Sessions
Administrative - Exhibit
Hall
Technical - Exhibit
Hall
Specialized
- Exhibit Hall
Configuration - Exhibit
Hall
2:30pm
- 3:30pm - Sessions
Administrative - Ask
the Experts and The
Changing Regulatory Landscape
- In
this time of new wireless-based technologies, applications and
services, the role of the FCC, NTIA and other regulatory regimes
throughout the world has become increasingly important. This
panel will discuss the issues currently faced by License Exempt
regulators and regulatory affairs opinion leaders ~ including
license exempt issues, frequency allocations and interference
concerns.
This
is every WISPs dream come true. This session will be a short
presentation from the staff at the FCC's Certification Labs and
then the speakers will open it up for the hundreds of different
questions we WISPs have.
Speaker:
- FCC Julie Knapp, Karen
Rackley and Joe Dichoso, Ellen Burton and Rodger Woock, and Jim
Schlichting
3:00pm
- Exhibit Hall Closes
3:30pm
- 3:45pm - Afternoon Refreshment Break/Visit Exhibitors (Sponsored
by TBA)
3:45pm
- 4:45pm - Sessions
Administrative - Ask
the Experts and The
Changing Regulatory Landscape
- In
this time of new wireless-based technologies, applications and
services, the role of the FCC, NTIA and other regulatory regimes
throughout the world has become increasingly important. This
panel will discuss the issues currently faced by License Exempt
regulators and regulatory affairs opinion leaders ~ including
license exempt issues, frequency allocations and interference
concerns.
This
is every WISPs dream come true. This session will be a short
presentation from the staff at the FCC's Certification Labs and
then the speakers will open it up for the hundreds of different
questions we WISPs have.
Speaker:
- FCC Julie Knapp, Karen
Rackley and Joe Dichoso, Ellen Burton and Rodger Woock, and Jim
Schlichting
WISPCON
Roundup - All
attendees invited. Raffles - and much more
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