WiFi for Managers
- Telecom, RF, and Wireless Basics
- Networking basics
- LANs and WANs
- RF basics
- Mobile and fixed wireless technologies
- Introduction to WiFi for Managers
- What is WiFi
- WiFi equipment vendors
- Wi-Fi applications
- Current and projected market for WiFi
- How WiFi Works
- Technical principles that underlie WiFi operation
- Frequency bands
- Components of a WiFi network
- 802.11 Standards Evolution
- Standards review: 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, 802.11ac, 802.11ad
- Standards (contd.): 802.11ah, 802.11aj, 802.11ax
- Comparison of capabilities, strengths, and limitations
- Compatibility considerations and issues
- Procuring, Designing, and Deploying a WiFi Network
- Design and optimization process and tools
- Deployment process
- Security considerations and issues
- Campus-wide and city-wide deployments
- Muni Wi-Fi or Muni-Fi
- Managing a WiFi system
- Flavors, Related Technologies, Future Evolution
- A bit about WiMAX (though no relation to WiFi)
- Long-range WiFi
- Ad Hoc WiFi, WiFi Direct
- Super ‘WiFi’
- Comparing WiFi, Bluetooth, ZigBee
- Wi-Fi and IPTV
- Future evolution of WiFi
- Other issues of interest to class
- Wrap-Up: Course Recap, Q/A, and Evaluations
