Network Management Strategies for the CIO
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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
- What's needed to wirelessly connect two offices 100 feet apart?
- Troubleshooting wireless connection – unable to see other PCs or share files
- How will WiMax benefit those looking to avoid commercial access fees?
- Creating a wireless client/server environment using Windows 2000 server and Windows 2000 Pro
- 802.11b performance testing
- Is it possible to automatically disable my wireless connection as soon as the system connects to a w
- What are GSM and CDMA?
- I need help adding a central MAC address authentication server to our current WLAN.
- Would you consider a Microsoft VPN tunnel through a WEP encrypted access point to be secure?
- I need help setting up a WLAN.
- Can you tell me about wireless LAN QoS and what are the pros and cons of implementing this?
- I need to select a Cisco ADSL router which is capable of acting as a VPN server for Microsoft VPN cl
- I have read that there may be laws in foreign countries forbidding VoIP out of the country on privat
- I've heard rumors that some service providers can see unencrypted VPN traffic of their customers. Is
- I am having issues with the IKE communication between the two Cisco VPN concentrators.
- What about using SSL VPN with e-mail clients?
- How do I hook up a wireless router in order to use my notebook over a satellite connection?
- Can you have two VPN connections to the same machine simultaneously?
- What is the best way to extend a wireless G network to our building?
- After setting up wireless router, I can no longer get on the VPN