Webinars

Enterprise

802.11n Ratification – Come with questions, leave with answers
With the ratification of 802.11n you may be asking yourself, what does it really mean for your organization? Why should you care? For starters, industry experts say that by the year 2012 80% of wireless LAN installations will be 802.11n. The result of that is not only will the vast majority of IT departments need to support 802.11n but the hundreds of millions of legacy 802.11 a/b/g clients need to be accounted for as well.

Migrate & Scale the Network From 802.11a/b/g to 802.11n
Phil Belanger from Novarum shares the findings from his recent independent testing of three enterprise wireless LAN systems- Meru, Cisco and Aruba. Phil discusses limitations of various WLAN architectures to support high capacity and scalability and provide advice on best practices of rolling out a large scale wireless networking.

Wireless LAN Edge: Is 802.11n the End of Ethernet?
Paul DeBeasi, Senior Analyst, Burton Group, and Rachna Ahlawat, VP Strategic Marketing, Meru Networks, discuss when and how 802.11n will be deployed in the enterprise market. Best practices of deploying 802.11n based wireless network in a greenfield as well as brownfield environments are covered.

802.11n: What It Means for Your Enterprise
In this webinar, Devin Akin, CTO of The CWNP Program, discusses key considerations for The Next Generation Network and Jean Boland, CIO of Morrisville State College provides first hand insights from her real-world 802.11n network implementation.

Education

Communications and Security in Education Using Voice over WLAN
Education institutions are rapidly adopting 802.11 wireless LANs to support laptop learning programs, collaborative learning, and on-line testing by providing both teachers and students ubiquitous wireless access anywhere on campus. Many institutions are now taking the next step, leveraging their WLAN by including voice services over their wireless network (VoWLAN), thereby improving staff communications and providing mobile communications in the event of a school emergency. However, voice has its unique requirements and challenges to provide seamless roaming and toll-quality calls. Attend this webinar to learn how best to plan up front to support VoWLAN, or adapt your current network for better results.

Achieving Wireless Nirvana: What To Know About Wi-Fi™ in K-12
Join education IT expert Jake Smith, Consultant with Mesquite ISD, and wireless networking guru Cal Calamari for an interactive 45 minute webinar on the keys to avoiding common pitfalls when designing wireless LANs for schools and districts. Not only can Jake address problems like how to get all students logged on simultaneously, but also how to convince your district that leveraging the latest networking technology can reduce ongoing IT expenses and overhead. In addition, Cal will cover how the recently ratified 802.11n standard can unleash new school education applications, and brings in new capabilities including high quality video, voice for emergency communications, location-based services, and more. If you are planning to implement wireless LAN in your school, this webinar will cover what you need to know so achieve wireless nirvana. If you are already down this path, come share your experiences and find out how to overcome existing issues with guidance by Jake and Cal.

Best Practices: Secure Wireless for 21st Century Universities
Universities and colleges everywhere are depending on wireless LAN as the primary network access for students, professors, staff and guest. The wireless LAN must be pervasive, robust and secure. Students bring a plethora of Wi-Fi™ devices including iPhones, iPads, Blackberries, laptops, Netbooks, and gaming consoles to campus and expect to use them on the Wireless LAN everywhere and anytime. How are universities providing wireless coverage? How are they dealing with the large influx and variety of WiFi device types? How are all these devices authenticated and managed without impacting the network performance which may affect everyone? Join us and learn how Franklin and Marshall College tackle these issues across their campus. Plus hear from Meru Networks and Bradford Networks what they see being deployed as the best practices for Wireless LAN security in higher education.

Best Practices: Wireless LAN for 21st Century Schools
An informative webinar with Jim Corns, Supervisor of Instructional Technology at Kent County Public Schools, and Josh Ennis, Network Manager at the Hilton Central School District. It covers wireless LAN best practices for use as an instructional technology and how to transition from a legacy wireless system to the new 802.11n standard, including how to address dense student usage with laptop carts.

Next-Generation Wi-Fi: Unwiring the 21st Century School
Building a wireless network that effectively supports 21st Century learning initiatives doesn't have to be a complex and costly exercise. Hear and learn from education technology leaders that have successfully deployed a wireless network to meet the growing demand for high-performing, reliable mobility.

Creating an 802.11n Strategy that Makes Sense
Whether you're looking to upgrade your legacy Wi-Fi network or just getting started with wireless, this one-hour discussion provides the knowledge you will need to deploy a high-performance Wi-Fi network with a sensible and cost-effective path to 802.11n.

802.11n in Education: Where No Wireless Has Gone Before
Learn about 802.11n and put the standard into context for educational institutions of all sizes and needs. With an eye toward higher data rates and performance expected from 802.11n, this webinar also covers best practices for getting the most of your current Wi-Fi network.

Is Your Wireless Network Ready for One-to-One Computing?
A school's wireless infrastructure must be prepared to deliver secure and reliable wireless service to an explosive number of mobile users and to support the requirements of emerging applications and standards. Learn how other schools have successfully deployed secure and reliable WLANs.

Healthcare

Eliminating Wireless LAN Pain in mHealth
Mobile health (or mHealth) depends on making your wireless network reliable, predictable, and secure. In this presentation experts from Meru will highlight how virtualization and other recent innovations can both achieve these goals and create a low ongoing IT support cost. Achieving that is not always easy, because traditional wireless networks are inherently unpredictable and unreliable, and often it is through painful learning experiences and a large amount of IT support that the wireless networks meet the needs of healthcare. Attend this session and learn to avoid the traditional pitfalls that increase mHealth risks for healthcare providers.

Delivering Toll Quality Voice with mHealth Applications
Mobile health relies on a wireless network that can handle the unpredictable healthcare environment. In this webinar you will learn how to avoid to resolve common mHealth problems like dropped voice calls, missed barcode scans, and poor data transfer from patient telemetry equipment.

Delivering Reliable Wi-Fi Applications at the Point-of-Care
You will hear about issues faced by IT professionals in deploying Wi-Fi infrastructure to deliver applications at point-of-care with high reliability, and how they overcame the challenges.

Network Convergence: Delivering Healthcare Applications Over a Single Wireless Network
Hospitals, clinics and other healtchare facilities require reliable wireless coverage to facilitate the delivery of exceptional patient care.

Connected Care: Wirelessly Enabled Care Deliver
The growing demands and concerns of the healthcare community regarding the explosion of new applications requiring a robust wireless network and the delivery of these applications to the Point of Care (POC) are addressed.