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Day 3 — Wednesday, October 6
8:15 - 9:15 am
Introducing WiFi Telephony: An Overview
Aron Aicard, Product Manager, Inter-Tel
Mobility in the enterprise is quickly becoming a major consideration
on a customer's wish list. As more companies investigate the costs
and benefits of wireless communications, they face a number of
questions specific to deploying 802.11. This session will discuss
many of these issues, including network security, delivering
enterprise-specific features throughout an 802.11 network, technical
considerations when integrating 802.11 into an existing converged
infrastructure, and vendor-neutral practical applications.
1:00 - 1:45 pm
WiFi Telephony Best Practices
Ben Guderian, VP of Marketing, Spectralink
Adding voice to wireless LANs makes a whole lot of business sense,
offering companies across industries a speedy return on investment
and a host of mobility features that were previously unavailable on
traditional circuit-switched office systems. Ensuring the successful
addition of voice to a network that has been carrying data carries a
string of requirements. Accurate and effective telecom equipment
integration with existing and new infrastructure can dramatically
improve voice quality, network capacity, and roaming. Modifying a
WLAN into a converged network is no easy feat and deployments
unfamiliar with best practices risk weakening the full benefits of
Wi-Fi telephony. This session will review best practices to ensure
optimal Wi-Fi telephony deployment.
2:00 - 2:45 pm
WLAN Convergence for Business Success
Tony Rybczynski, Director - Strategic
Enterprise Technologies
WLAN convergence adds a needed mobility dimension for IP telephony
and multimedia communication systems. But wireless LANs are not
wired LANs. This presentation will discuss the major challenges and
recommend enterprise actions. As a result, enterprises will better
understand the inherent characteristics of WLANs and will be better
able to address the challenges they represent to deliver
high-quality mobility for voice and data users in the enterprise.
3:00 - 3:45 pm
WiFi x5 — 802.11G Raises the Bar
William Beyda, Vice President of Product
Development, Siemens
802.11g wireless routers are now widely available, and soon will be
the only kind that consumers and enterprises buy. Offering five
times the bandwidth, they cost little more than their 802.11b
predecessors. What does it mean to mobility and collaboration when
the WiFi network goes from a relatively anemic, shared 11Mbps to
54Mbps? Attendees will learn about the technologies leading up to
802.11g and their real-world limitations; how collaborative
applications such as instant messaging, document sharing, VoIP, Web,
and video streaming now work as well wirelessly as they do at our
office desks; implications for the evolution of mobile endpoint
devices; the proliferation of WiFi networks; and more.
4:00 - 4:45 pm
WiFi Case Study: S.A Community Hospital
Jan Synder, Manager Network Services, San
Antonio Community Hospital
As healthcare organizations grapple with staff shortages and
financial pressures, they're increasingly turning to technology to
improve patient care in "the last ten feet." Systems that protect
against drug interaction problems, match patients with treatments,
and process patients' admissions and releases are proliferating.
Increasingly, wireless technologies, and in particular 802.11
wireless LANs (WLANs), are playing a critical role in delivering
these services. One key driver for WLANs is the demand for voice
over wireless IP (VoWIP), since it allows any caregiver to
communicate with other nurses, physicians, and specialists to get
critical information instantly.
San Antonio Community Hospital in Upland, California has
undertaken the installation of the PACS radiology network and
deployment of a second-generation wireless LAN, and is in process of
bringing voice over wireless IP (VoWIP) phones to the physician and
nursing staff. The hospital's senior telecom consultant will discuss
the high points and challenges of implementing state-of-the-art
wireless solutions.
Day 4 — Thursday, October 7
8:15 - 9:00 am
Eliminating Obstacles to Widespread Deployment
Merwyn Andrade, CTO, Aruba Wireless Networks
Scott Ruck, Business Development Manager, Proxim Corp.
The popularity of wireless networking and the innovation that has
led to widespread deployment of WLANs and WiFi hot spots
notwithstanding, major obstacles to mass-market acceptance of
wireless networks remain. One of these is the ability to transport
voice over WiFi with the quality that users will find acceptable.
Today's wireless LAN solutions do not meet the stringent
requirements of voice communications and do not allow for the future
integration of voice, cellular, and data traffic. In this
presentation the speaker will discuss the capabilities and functions
required to truly support voice over WiFi and the remaining
challenges that must be met for enterprises to move towards networks
that can support integrated voice, cellular and data traffic.
12:30 - 1:15 pm
WiFi Mobility Distribution
Stephen P. Forte, President, Ascendent
Bob Mimeault, CEO Versatel Networks
What are the pressures on carriers to support WiFi communication?
Are deployments of wireless solutions alternative access methods, or
is this about supporting application-specific networking? What are
the deployment plans and what are the devices that are going to take
advantage of these networks? This session will take a look at impact
of standing still; the pursuit of the holy grail of mobile
communications; and the effect WiFi telephony has as the enabler of
the consumer's choice for an alternative that is separate from the
wireless service provider. Come discuss market data on WiFi mobile
phones, broadband subscribers, and hotspots.
1:30 - 2:15 pm
Is Secure WiFi A Possibility?
David Duignan, Vice President of Worldwide
Sales, VIACK Corporation
The growth of WiFi is astronomical, coming to every hotel, airport,
and corner coffeehouse near you. But security remains a stumbling
block for those concerned that their unencrypted data flowing
through these wireless hotspots is easy prey for unsavory data
snoops. There are some bright spots on the horizon, however. The
industry is promising new standards such as 802.11i and the interim
security protocol known as WiFi Protected Access (WPA). This session
will highlight the security issues inherent in WiFi telephony and
the types of applications that companies can use now to ensure their
data remains private.
2:30 - 3:15 pm
Current Trends / A Look Ahead
Kamal Anand, VP of Marketing & Business
Development, Meru Networks
Combining VoIP and mobility is today's hottest trend. VoIP has the
potential to provide the same location-independent voice experience
for the mobile worker as TCP/IP provided for e-mail, Web access, and
other data applications. With the right mobile VoIP infrastructure,
a user can seamlessly become part of the Enterprise voice
infrastructure — regardless of location. Today, most technologies on
the market are limiting in service quality, scalability, and
usability. These limitations need to be understood before VoWLAN
will see the predicted explosive growth. This session will take a
look at the current trends and will explore what the future holds in
store for WiFi Telephony.
3:30 - 4:15 pm
Metropolitan WiFi Access Architectures
Bob Ehlers, Director of Business Development,
Performance Technologies
Wireless LANs use radio technologies to provide secure, reliable,
wireless connectivity to Ethernet networks and the Internet. Today,
the use of WLAN technology is exploding. As with any technology that
is so hastily adopted, there are infrastructure challenges. Moving
from an enterprise technology to a ubiquitous end user technology
poses enormous issues for telecom carriers, such as radio spectrum
management, security, authentication, billing, roaming and repair.
This session will cover the architectures for wireless network
deployment for public use, the issues with some of the current
paradigms and some possible scenarios that may significantly reduce
the overall cost of deployment and operation of these networks.
4:20 - 5:05 pm
The Site Survey Is Dead
Joe Bardwell, Chief Scientist / President,
Connect802 Corporation
Assuring proper RF connectivity for reliable, high-quality
wireless VoIP demands accurate design. In pioneering Wi-Fi networks
this required a walk-around, on-site RF survey - a costly and time
consuming project. In today's wireless network space the engineering
technologies that have been applied to cellular telephony have made
their way down to the Wi-Fi level, and the majority of Wi-Fi design
can now be accomplished using RF computer modeling and simulation.
This presentation
will use RF modeling and simulation to show how signal propagation,
reflection, diffraction, and attenuation effect wireless VoIP
performance and coverage. You'll be amazed to see what the signal
propagation paths really look like, in real time, through the eyes
of sophisticated computer modeling software. |
