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Web/audio conferencing study group
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| One of the things I've kicked around was to start a CWNA study group using web and audio conferencing. The challenge to this type of offering is these services are not free, so I'm on a quest to see if people would be willing to cost share or deal with sponsored web/audio conferences.
Please respond with info on what you'd think this service would be worth if you were in paying position and how much vendor participation you'd tolerate for free web/audi study group.
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| I think a forum for this cert is a great idea!
And I think if you dig, you will find most
of the A/V presentations do in fact have a sponser. Search Networking folks seem to have this down. They use email for a lot of traffic which gives them the vechile for promoting the A/V gig.
A low tech/cost way on the MS platform for this would be NetShow or NetMeeting.
From the e-trainers I chat with, Pricing is EXTREMELY senstive. A course on-line cannot seem to break $50 USD. Over that, zero signups. Drop it $20 and many signups.
I think the only way it will fly is vendor
sponsered no-charge. At least in the current state of affairs.
Just a thought
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| Thanks for your comments. Getting interest, whether free or not seems to be problematic. The CWNA course content is quite strong, so it baffles me why there is little interest. I'm on the corporate side of a large enterprise and wish our tech staff would spend some time on this one as it's only a matter of time before 802.11 networking will be fully acceptable for corp networks.
I'll keep you posted on this one as we do have a few sponsors for a short proof of concept. The key will be to generate interest! | |
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| If it is of any help, I can send you a work in progress for 802.11 (and wireles in general) for Security+.
I don't know if you have dug into my background, but I like to create CompTIA books that are good enough to be reference books later.
Hit me with an address to send an email to if you want the work in progress. (It's not done, BlueTooth) but rather well researched as far as I have gotten.
Still need expand on a couple areas like
how SSID works, etc... but I think you would like it. It has a lot of focus on security, of course.
Best,
Tcat | |
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| gclumpkin 2002-08-06, 5:52 am |
| You have stated in an earlier post that you are in charge of IT in the enterprise.
Do you see more growth for wireless? Do you see future job openings?
I work for a company that uses one access point and the only users are the IT department of which I belong. My manager says he has no wireless "agenda" outside of us playing with it. Consequently, I'm having to fund my wireless education and certifications entirely out of pocket.
I have "hitched my wagon" to wireless and I WILL have a career in this field. I guess I just need some assurances... | |
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| Networking of any kind is a safe bet as no matter what technologies emerge, somehow they need to be interconnected. The same experience and education I received in the early 80's on network technologies for the most part still applies. Even in a worst case scenario (wireless not catching on), which I doubt will happen, you'd have technology knowledge that could be ported to other career paths. Keep your wagon hitched for now!
As for our enterprise, we're trying to establish portable computing in all of our campuses using 802.11x. The challenge of course is to make it secure, yet easy to use. On top of that we're struggling with staying on top of all rogue access points to protect our internal infrastructure. We see expansion of wireless networking, for better or worse, and will always need skilled staff in all network technology disciplines. | |
| vr2zjw 2002-08-14, 6:42 am |
| I once have the same idea of forming a virtual study group around the world which actually can break the location barrier. The tools I find is Netmeeting which has voice and application sharing.
The problem is the voice and video is only point-to-point. The third user cannot receive and voice/video. For data, a multi-user sharing is possible. So you need a server which support Netmeeting with H.323 for voice/video and T.120 for data sharing. The only product I can find is Meeting Point MCU Server but it is extremely pricy.
Then I find out about the Open H323 project www.openh323.org. It can run on Linux or Windows, but the problem is it only support voice/video but not data sharing.
So in the end, I figure out a solution, one usr can host the Open H323 MCU server and another member host use the Netmeeting to host a meeting for the data sharing part. All other member need to call the MCU server and the Netmeeting host such that multi-user voice and data sharing is possible.
If you want to try, we can have conduct a test to see if it work or not. | |
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| I just came back from LinuxWorld and saw a Huntsville, AL company that does Data and voice on the same connection.... interesting stuff.... sorry that I don't have time for more right now.... back from a Security class and then LinuxWorld, now off to a different part of the planet.... will get back to this when either I get rest or someone reminds me in about 3 days....
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