Upcoming Targeted IT Conferences

9:00 am - 10:00 am
Making Sense of Wireless Technologies, Devices and Applications
Jason Kerner, Wireless Solution Architect, Research in Motion

The industry seems to keep changing and wireless devices and applications have been proliferating at an incredibly rapid pace. But how do you make sense of the technologies, the devices and applications and the benefits to your enterprise? If you are starting to implement enterprise wireless and trying to get a handle on all the options possible or looking to refine your strategy wireless with the advent of new technologies, this session will provide you with a detailed overview. You will also learn how different types of verticals have been extending their enterprise wirelessly and the efficiencies and productivities they have achieved.

10:00 am - 10:30 am - Refreshment Break

10:30 am - 11:30 am
Defining & Prioritizing the Needs of Enterprise Wireless Users and Understanding the Associated ROI
Dan Croft, CEO, Mission Critical Wireless

Information technology, telecommunications, and wireless have finally all converged. Very often companies implement wireless solutions in a suboptimal fashion focusing on single issues, or failing to plan for the natural evolution of wireless carrier networks, wireless devices, and wireless applications.  What should your priorities be to help ensure your company realizes the greatest benefits possible from a wireless rollout?  What goals and expectations can you set for a wireless initiative? This session will provide an overview and analysis of the major components in an enterprise wireless solution deployment and provide a framework for planning, managing, and measuring a successful wireless project plan.  Critical priorities within each component will be reviewed and discussed.  Implemented correctly, wireless data solutions will result in satisfied end users, manageable IT resource requirements, and measurable ROI performance for your firm.

11:30 am - 12:30 am
How to Design, Implement and Manage Your Wireless Infrastructure
Narothum Saxena, Sr. Director - Advanced Technology, U.S. Cellular

Extending your enterprise wirelessly provides many advantages including enhanced productivities, efficiencies and increased business opportunities.  The benefits are clear.  But how do you design a wireless enterprise network that will capitalize on these benefits while still leveraging your current network infrastructure.   How do you make sure that your implementation will actually meet what was specified in your design?  How do you make sure you are effectively managing this network to achieve the levels of service your users require.

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - Luncheon

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
How to Implement VoIP over Wireless in the Enterprise
Britt Hayes, Wireless Specialist, Cisco Systems

By adding mobility to an enterprise network users have a new way of accessing important information and increasing their productivity.  Voice over IP (VoIP) has been gaining widespread acceptance as enterprises are able to consolidate multiple services onto a single converged network.  The fixed nature of the VoIP network, however, does not fully realize the true benefits of convergence and can also impose significant disruption and deployment costs.  Combining VoIP and mobility as an enterprise service can provide the following: Cost savings of VoIP;  all the advantages of cellular; and not requiring expensive wiring closet power upgrades.   In supporting converged services, a well built mobile architecture can centralize both security and mobility, enable fast handoffs between access points and other networks, and provide for reliable and secure delivery of voice, data and video.  This session will provide how to implement these technologies and how to get a handle on the following: Performance Issues; RF Bandwidth; Bandwidth Management for QoS and SLAs, RF Coverage, NLOS Coverage, Mesh Routed Networks, Status versus Dynamic BW Allocation, Spectrum Constraint impacts.

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm - Refreshment Break

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
How to Secure Your Wireless Network by Creating a Defense in Depth Architecture
Jon Green, Senior Product Manager, Aruba Networks

The most significant and successful security breaches don’t come from the outside as was originally feared.  They most often originate from within the network due to a variety of reasons including unsecured wireless networks.  To protect against this, the network requires internal perimeterization and defenses.  While the perimeter is being extended through site-to-site and remote access VPNs, employees themselves are weakening the perimeter without being aware of the impact they are having on network security.  Mobility itself causes more challenges when a network manager is trying to segregate and segment traffic based on IP address since a malicious client can change its own IP address to assume another identity.

In this session you will learn how to create a defense in depth architecture through the following strategies and tactics:

• Authenticate and authorize all network users
• Deploy VLANs for traffic separation and coarse-grained security
• Use stateful firewall technology at the port level for fine-grained security
• Place encryption throughout the network to ensure privacy
• Detect threats to the integrity of the network and remediate them
• Include end-point security in policy-based enforcement

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Reconnecting the Disconnect Over Enterprise Mobilization:
How to Provide the Support Required
Moderator: Dan Horwich, Principal, CAMP IT Conferences
Panelists: Steve Tindall, Sr. Network Analyst, PC Wireless Support, Cardinal Health
Kathlene Tindall, Blackberry Support, Cardinal Health
Geri McGreevy, Messaging and Collaboration Services (MCS), Health Care Service Corporation
Paul Carugati, Sr. Wireless Security Engineer, Motorola

Mobilizing your enterprise has many obvious benefits to your organization, however, there are still challenges that need to be addressed including the level of support needed for the wireless users.  As you are pursuing the route of mobilization you most likely have a plan to automate support, troubleshoot devices remotely and identify network security challenges.  However, you need to make sure you have a clear and universal policy on mobilization to preclude serious problems from happening.   Executives may embrace mobility rather aggressively without a clear understanding of business interruptions because of mobility support problems. 

The key to solving this challenge is to make sure the right expectations are set with different levels within IT and the business as to the support required and administered based on your organization’s plan for mobility.  But how do you accomplish this?  Our panel of enterprise IT professionals will share their experiences in working through these challenges.

What You Will Learn