Best Practices for Safe and Reliable Wireless Networks

Sponsor: AirMagnet, Inc.
Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner
Speakers: Tim Zimmerman, Chia-Chee Kuan
Type: Video (25 minutes)

People are inherently mobile. It is unnatural to tie anyone to one location, and as mobility explodes across all industries, organizations are seriously considering wireless LAN (WLAN) technology, and are looking to provide more strategic benefit for their end-users. But with rapid shift to wireless-over-wired networks more organizations are looking for help on how to more effectively manage their wireless network. It managers must address questions, such as "How do I ensure the network is effectively deployed?" and "How do I keep the network safe from intruders and any problems that may arise?". In this program we'll explore those questions and more.

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About Tim Zimmerman

Tim Zimmerman is Principal Research Analyst at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc. Tim has twenty four years experience with increasing levels of business development, channel and strategic alliance responsibility with networking and WLAN companies. Tim excels in business development, vertical market solution development and relationship management. He is an innovative and results oriented problem solver. He is a published author “Implementing Successful Wireless LAN” ISBN 0-595-32875-X and listed as inventor on over 20 patent applications in wireless LAN and RFID.

About Chia-Chee Kuan

Chia-Chee Kuan is the chief technology officer and vice president of engineering for AirMagnet. In this role, Kuan initiates the development of the technologies that reside within AirMagnet’s suite of wireless network management products for the enterprise. Prior to cofounding AirMagnet in 2002, Kuan served as a technical staff member at Packet Design. Prior to Packet Design, Kuan was the first software engineer at Precept Software, where he developed IP multicast video and audio technologies, as well as IP video streaming technologies. When Precept was later acquired by Cisco Systems, Kuan led the Video Internet Service Unit develop team as engineering manager. His experience with multimedia at Precept Software and Cisco Systems helped him foresee the challenges of quality-of-service (QoS) and wireless data and voice, which he eventually leveraged in developing wireless network management products for AirMagnet. His prior experience includes engineering design at Empirical Tools and Technologies and systems architecture at The Wollongong Group. To date, he has more than 10 wireless technology patents either granted or pending for technologies he has invented, including several patents pending for the AirMagnet Vo-Fi Analyzer—AirMagnet’s comprehensive, enterprise-class voice-over-WLAN (VoWLAN) analysis tool. Kuan holds a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in information engineering from National Taiwan University.