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President, Core Competence Inc.
Lisa Phifer owns and is president of Core Competence Inc., a consulting firm specializing in leading-edge network technology. She has been involved in the design, implementation and evaluation of networking and security products for over 25 years. She has advised companies large and small regarding needs, product assessment and the use of emerging technologies and best practices. Before joining Core Competence, Phifer was a member of the technical staff at Bell Communications Research, where she won a president's award for her work on ATM network management. Phifer teaches about wireless LANs, mobile security, NAC, and VPNs at many industry conferences and webinars. She has written extensively about network infrastructure and security technologies for numerous publications, including SearchSecurity.com, Information Security, Wi-Fi Planet, ISP-Planet, Business Communications Review, and Network World. Phifer's monthly wireless tips are published by SearchNetworking.com and SearchMobileComputing.com. -
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Contributions from Lisa Phifer, Wireless Networking Expert
- Convergence on solutions to boost wireless LAN deployment
- Wireless access points
- Combining wired and wireless
- Complementary code keying
- What are the latest advances to 802.11?
- Will TV or set-top boxes support Wi-Fi in the future?
- Using Win2000 IAS to support 802.1X/EAP/RADIUS
- Increasing your WLAN's RF footprint
- LEAP and PEAP
- Wireless duplex modes
- WLAN client tracking technology
- Software for Wi-Fi enabled PDA's to provide EAP-TTLS or PEAP
- Applying Wi-Fi and similar technology to support field/process automation
- Cisco LEAP (Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol)
- WLAN-standard that can do more than 100 meters
- Performance issues for long-range wireless LANs
- Multipath signaling
- Multipath-propagation interference
- Formula for determining the bandwidth attenuation through walls
- Popular protocols for securing 802.11 networks
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