CWNA Class OKC

I just wrapped up another CWNA class in Oklahoma City. What a GREAT city! I loved the 21c hotel here. Definitely worth checking out. Beautiful spacious rooms and they have converted the property into an art museum. Great restaurant too!
I had three wiz-bang students that I fully expect to pass the CWNA within the month. Pioneer Networks technicians that will soon join the distinguished ranks of CWNAs.
Questions came up about dual band 5ghz AP's and I had to show the the GT Hill video from the WLAN Pros conference GT Hill
The students knew GT from previous Ruckus training. We had a blast watching it.
THe WLAN Pros conference opened my eyes to a lot of ways to improve the CWNA class. I used the new Eye PA tool that Joel from MetaGeek demonstrated at the conference. It's a great way to show packet analysis. I also used the Savvius Omnipeak tool to show packet capture. The next step is to get some Netbeez from Panos and use them for network analysis. He's set to give me a class on them this week. Other tools that I like to use to teach the class are:
Wireshark. I've collected quite an assortment of pcap files that we can look at.
InSSIDer -the $20.00 version is great to show spectrum analysis
Emanim used to display raio waves in the time domain.
Thatnks to the community for helping me to improve this class!
  

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Top 10 WLPC presentations

Please excuse the formatting errors (ugh!). This is my first attempt at blogging in a very long time.

 What a great three days at WLPC.  This was my first conference and I wasn't sure what to expect. What I got was an incredible amount of information presented by a variety of knowledgeable people. I attended all the presentations and, almost unbelievably  didn't even get a door prize, although more than 100 were given out.
So here's my top 10. It's not made up of any statistical matrix, it's just the presentations I liked the best. Let me know what you think on Twitter @CWNA_Instructor
Here they are:

10.    Ronald van Kluenen     Wi-Fi as part of Service Management System

                        Ronald took a dry subject and made it interesting. This is textbook presentation skills. Look   directly at the audience, no glitches in slide transition, plus that Flemish accent sounds so dignified.

9.  Brennan Martin     The internet of Dirty and Dusty things

 Great slides that really supported his story. I loved getting deep into Wi-FI with Brennan. 

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       8.  Mitch Dickey     Single Channel Architecture in the Real World

There’s just something inside me that loves it when somebody sticks it to “the man.” Mitch made his point with great stats that showed what we all didn’t want to see; SCA works. What the…?

1    7.  Ferney Munoz   English as a Second Language & Wi-Fi

       I’m glad that lawn mower shop gig didn’t work out and we got Ferney! Very funny and poignant.

1.     6.  GT Hill   - Dual-radio dual 5ghz

        The dual- radio duel. It was funny and a little shocking when Devin stood up and challenged GT, but Mr. Hill had done his research and presented an excellent case against dual 5ghz radios. BTW: Did we ever get the results of that dual? 

1     5.  Brian Long    Wireless Association & Authentication

    How did he pack all that into 10 minutes? Scripts baby! Great understanding of a
difficult subject. Brian walked us through the core elements of Wi-Fi security at layer
Even the Big Guy was impressed.

1     4. Darrell DeRosia     Understanding WLAN Capacity Limits 
                           Darrell's casual and comfortable approach made it easy to follow along. This presentation taught me about the realities of throughput and actual speeds that our clients can expect on Wi-Fi networks. I loved his quote from management; "We have 100 APs that support 1.3 Gig each. What do you mean we can't get 130 Gig of throughput?"

1     3.   Eldad Perahia     High Efficiency Wi-Fi 802.11ax 
                           Eldad was the first presenter and I was thinking "OMG, I'm in way over my head!" But he did a great job of explaining a futuristic concept and explaining all the new aspects of 802.11ax and how the Task Force chose what to take on in incorporating new technologies into the upcoming 802.11 amendment.

1     2.  Joel Crane     MetaGeek Training Session
                           Joel really knows his IPA - or should I say Eye PA. The MetaGeek tools do a great job of displaying Wi-Fi data packets, and Joel did a great job of demonstrating the capabilities of those tools. Being a southerner it took me a minute to adjust to Joel's rapid-fire speech pattern. That's a nice way of saying 'That boy talks fast.' But once I caught on I became totally engaged.

       1.   Peter Mackenzie - The Magic of Analysis

                               How did he know it was the 6 of hearts? Pure magic, and so was the rest of his presentation.  I loved all the little vignettes of how analysis had solved problems in different organizations. Peter’s like a W-Fi sleuth that delves into packet analysis to catch the culprit. His natural way of explaining things made it very easy for even the most simple of minds (like mine) could follow along. 

      Finally, a big thank you to all the presenters. It takes courage to get up and present a topic. I applaud all that "went for it." Many thanks to "all y'all."