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Too Many WLAN Devices, Protocols & Vendors to Manage?
Simplify WLAN Management with Holistic Network Visibility

Wireless LAN (WLAN) is the future of enterprise networks. Once considered a luxury reserved for conference rooms and engineering labs, WLANs have evolved into a business critical networking infrastructure for enterprises, delivering mobile data, voice and video applications. While the Capital Expense (CapEx) of planning and deploying a WLAN continues to decline, Operational Expense (OpEx) is becoming the focus. Wireless networks within an organization may come from different vendors, have a variety of architectures, support various 802.11 protocols and have individual management consoles. Even solutions from the same vendor within the same enterprise could consist of different product versions offering a mixture of legacy and newer devices with non-uniform feature sets, firmware incompatibilities, and siloed management interfaces. Network administrators end up managing individual devices, rather than a holistic network, exacerbating OpEx and leading to frequent mis-configurations and compliance problems.

Join industry expert Stan Schatt and Motorola AirDefense Solutions as they discuss some of the key management concerns that affect enterprise WLAN deployments, along with multi-vendor infrastructure management solutions that dramatically reduce the TCO and achieve quicker ROI from their WLAN.

Stan Schatt is the author of 15 books on networking and data communications. He headed up research on wireless networking at Forrester Research, the Giga Information Group, and ABI Research. He has published over 200 articles on wireless LAN security and infrastructure issues. Stan served as Chairman of the Telecommunications Management department at DeVry Institute of Technology. He also has served as a Fulbright visiting professor to Japan where he taught at Tokyo University. He is a frequent speaker at wireless and security industry trade shows. Stan also has worked for a number of Fortune 500 companies including AT&T and Honeywell.

Dr. Amit Sinha, serves as Fellow & Chief Technologist of Motorola’s Enterprise Wireless LAN division. He was the Chief Technology Officer of AirDefense, prior to its acquisition by Motorola. Dr. Sinha specializes in wireless communications and security and has authored over 25 journal/conference papers, contributed chapters to 3 books, and is the inventor of 16 US patents. Prior to AirDefense, he served as Chief Technologist at Engim, a multi-channel 802.11 chipset company he co-founded. He received his S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology where he was awarded the President of India Gold Medal for graduating summa cum laude.