Amen. You have stated something I have long felt and had to deal with at my company.
I find HR to be the same way though. In both cases (IT and HR), the department acts as though they are the reason the company exists.
Neither ever finds it convenient to help out Engineering/Sales/etc. (i.e. the people actually putting money toward the bottom line for the company). It would be nice if they would realize that without us, there would be no company/product to support.
That being said, I think if they were to understand that fact, there are benefits to be had from both departments. Well, maybe just IT, HR seems to be a lost cause...
You mention that the frequency hopping does not work as well as in practice. Lucent however, is a direct sequence solution, not frequency hopping. 802.11 provided for both techniques, but anything Wi-Fi, one of which is Lucent, is using the Direct Sequence technique.
This is unfortunate actually, as a good fh radio would be much better at avoiding the interference.
As a side note, I work for a wireless company involved with all sorts of wireless networking from good old UHF and 902 MHz up to 802.11a. Even we suffer from the interference that our microwaves, lights, etc. generate. Maybe it's time to go back to a regulated spectrum...
Yes, there is an emerging standard that can provide for this. 802.1x has provisions for key rotation, that can all but elminate the problems with current WEP.
Cisco created their own proprietary version of this essentially with LEAP, but 802.1x will be the eventual standard.
At least one vendor, Intermec Technologies has already released an access point with 802.1x capapbilities.
Additionally, Intermec was the only vendor at the recent N+I running both 802.11a and 802.11b in the same access point. I saw the demo and it was pretty sweet.
This is a proven technology. Remember in Goonies, this was the stuff in Data's slick shoes invention that he used to sidetrack the Fratelli brothers temporarily.
It's great when all of lifes new innovations come from classic 80's movies...
Yes, and if we bow down to might Cisco and use their equipment throughout the entire network, we get the privledge of using a proprietary protocol(LEAP) where we should be using an open standards-based implementation such as 802.1x using EAP w/ TLS or TTLS.
No disrespect to Cisco on their backbone equipment, but buying your way into the Wireless segment, and then pushing proprietary crap is not what the networking community really needs.
I'm glad somebody else pointed out the fact that 802.1x is not 802.11x.
Although IEEE nomeclatures can be tough to keep track of, I'm sick of every marketing moron I meet spouting how they need 802.11x when there is no such thing.
I think you're confusing the weaknesses in 802.11b and specfically WEP that you've heard about with 802.1x.
802.1x when used in conjunction with rapid re-keying is a moderate to good security solution. Coupling all of this with an ACL(Access Control List) provides a good to very good solution.
Running something like SSH over all of this make an excellent solution, AES be damned!
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Amen. You have stated something I have long felt and had to deal with at my company.
I find HR to be the same way though. In both cases (IT and HR), the department acts as though they are the reason the company exists.
Neither ever finds it convenient to help out Engineering/Sales/etc. (i.e. the people actually putting money toward the bottom line for the company). It would be nice if they would realize that without us, there would be no company/product to support.
That being said, I think if they were to understand that fact, there are benefits to be had from both departments. Well, maybe just IT, HR seems to be a lost cause...
You mention that the frequency hopping does not work as well as in practice. Lucent however, is a direct sequence solution, not frequency hopping. 802.11 provided for both techniques, but anything Wi-Fi, one of which is Lucent, is using the Direct Sequence technique.
This is unfortunate actually, as a good fh radio would be much better at avoiding the interference.
As a side note, I work for a wireless company involved with all sorts of wireless networking from good old UHF and 902 MHz up to 802.11a. Even we suffer from the interference that our microwaves, lights, etc. generate. Maybe it's time to go back to a regulated spectrum...
Yes, there is an emerging standard that can provide for this. 802.1x has provisions for key rotation, that can all but elminate the problems with current WEP.
Cisco created their own proprietary version of this essentially with LEAP, but 802.1x will be the eventual standard.
At least one vendor, Intermec Technologies has already released an access point with 802.1x capapbilities.
Additionally, Intermec was the only vendor at the recent N+I running both 802.11a and 802.11b in the same access point. I saw the demo and it was pretty sweet.
This is a proven technology. Remember in Goonies, this was the stuff in Data's slick shoes invention that he used to sidetrack the Fratelli brothers temporarily.
It's great when all of lifes new innovations come from classic 80's movies...
Yes, and if we bow down to might Cisco and use their equipment throughout the entire network, we get the privledge of using a proprietary protocol(LEAP) where we should be using an open standards-based implementation such as 802.1x using EAP w/ TLS or TTLS.
No disrespect to Cisco on their backbone equipment, but buying your way into the Wireless segment, and then pushing proprietary crap is not what the networking community really needs.
I'm glad somebody else pointed out the fact that 802.1x is not 802.11x.
Although IEEE nomeclatures can be tough to keep track of, I'm sick of every marketing moron I meet spouting how they need 802.11x when there is no such thing.
I think you're confusing the weaknesses in 802.11b and specfically WEP that you've heard about with 802.1x.
802.1x when used in conjunction with rapid re-keying is a moderate to good security solution. Coupling all of this with an ACL(Access Control List) provides a good to very good solution.
Running something like SSH over all of this make an excellent solution, AES be damned!