Totally depends on the type of training. SANS trainings (for GIAC certifications) can be done either online, or in person, but you pretty much have to take the courses to pass the exams...and those courses are 8-10 hour days for a week. It's expensive, but very hands-on. I'd rather have an employee with certifications that demonstrate actual experience and knowledge, rather than just memorization.
If you agree that the certification is worth having for your company/department, and the employee is worthwhile as a long term investment, pay for them to take the training course. They need to be in an environment where they can dedicate the time to learn.
Yeah, we've deployed this on a global WAN spanning 30+ countries, and it is rock solid. To really leverage what Aruba offers (and this is out of scope for this comment thread), you need to get their AirWave management suite. Real time and historic tracking of wireless assets, rogue detection, config management, etc. Good stuff.
You will not be able to accomplish your goals with consumer-grade equipment, simply because consumer-grade equipment is neither designed, nor priced, for this type of performance.
As a few others have suggested, Aruba Networks is a great solution, but it is neither inexpensive, nor simple/fast to set up if you don't know what you are doing. I've set up Aruba gear for a WAN spanning 30+ countries and supporting over 2000 users, and it is absolutely rock solid, with no performance problems whatsoever. The controllers intelligently move users to the least-utilized AP without packet loss, and load balance not just user count but by activity, signal strength/interference, etc.
You could pick up an 800-series controller for around $3000, but your user count might justify a 3000-series. The AP125 model supports a/b/g/n, and runs somewhere in the neighborhood of $800 each. Yes, it is expensive. The problem you are going to run into is that pretty much any AP is not going to support more than about 50 simultaneous connections, and really you are going to want to get that number closer to 25 users/AP.
Having separate SSIDs per frequency band is not a bad idea, but isn't necessary if you have a system like Aruba that does intelligent balancing.
I don't understand the "playable by normal people" complaint. Is the game only interesting/enjoyable if you are a lvl 60 badass? Otherwise, it's completely enjoyable without a huge time commitment.
Either the game is about the journey, or it's about the destination. I've been enjoying the journey for several months with just a few hours a week (10). As of now, I'm just shy of lvl 50.
One of the great things about WoW is how well the game difficulty scales as you go along.
Dunno what your problem is, then. My T68i synched up properly out of the box, and iSync works great between that and two iPods with my FP iMac. There was no work involved.
Contracts begin with an offer. Where is the offer here? Is the network "offering" to let me watch its programs in return for my commercial-watching activity? If so, when do I "accept" this offer? Do I accept the offer by turning on the TV? No, because I'm able to freely turn the channels whenever I've decided to move on. There is nothing holding me to one particular show or another, or even to one particular network.
Say I decide to watch a show on NBC at 8pm. What if after 10 mins of watching, I remember that I've seen the show before and I turn the channel to ABC to check out their 8pm time-slot. Then did I committ myself to watching the NBC show? Or maybe only the commercials in the 10 minutes that I inadvertantly put up with twice? And what about the ABC show? I've now missed about 1/3 of the show, assuming a half-hour broadcast. Am I liable to try to go back and watch the commercials in the first 10 minutes? That's ludicrous, I didn't get any content for those minutes.
Furthermore, what's keeping me from flipping to the Discovery channel for each 30 minute segment of commercials? What's the difference between that behavior and pushing a button to do it for you. By the TV-Executive's logic, the TV remote should also be banned for breaking the sacred TV commercial contract. The remote makes it easier for me to skip to another channel that is showing actual content instead of commercials. Complete rubbish.
Another thought: I may be a sap, but I actually pay for my cable access. That payment is to my cable provider, who has to pay fees to the individual networks to carry their content. So why is it exactly that I am engaging in theft for not watching something that I am paying for?
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Totally depends on the type of training. SANS trainings (for GIAC certifications) can be done either online, or in person, but you pretty much have to take the courses to pass the exams...and those courses are 8-10 hour days for a week. It's expensive, but very hands-on. I'd rather have an employee with certifications that demonstrate actual experience and knowledge, rather than just memorization.
If you agree that the certification is worth having for your company/department, and the employee is worthwhile as a long term investment, pay for them to take the training course. They need to be in an environment where they can dedicate the time to learn.
Yeah, we've deployed this on a global WAN spanning 30+ countries, and it is rock solid. To really leverage what Aruba offers (and this is out of scope for this comment thread), you need to get their AirWave management suite. Real time and historic tracking of wireless assets, rogue detection, config management, etc. Good stuff.
You will not be able to accomplish your goals with consumer-grade equipment, simply because consumer-grade equipment is neither designed, nor priced, for this type of performance.
As a few others have suggested, Aruba Networks is a great solution, but it is neither inexpensive, nor simple/fast to set up if you don't know what you are doing. I've set up Aruba gear for a WAN spanning 30+ countries and supporting over 2000 users, and it is absolutely rock solid, with no performance problems whatsoever. The controllers intelligently move users to the least-utilized AP without packet loss, and load balance not just user count but by activity, signal strength/interference, etc.
You could pick up an 800-series controller for around $3000, but your user count might justify a 3000-series. The AP125 model supports a/b/g/n, and runs somewhere in the neighborhood of $800 each. Yes, it is expensive. The problem you are going to run into is that pretty much any AP is not going to support more than about 50 simultaneous connections, and really you are going to want to get that number closer to 25 users/AP.
Having separate SSIDs per frequency band is not a bad idea, but isn't necessary if you have a system like Aruba that does intelligent balancing.
I don't understand the "playable by normal people" complaint. Is the game only interesting/enjoyable if you are a lvl 60 badass? Otherwise, it's completely enjoyable without a huge time commitment.
Either the game is about the journey, or it's about the destination. I've been enjoying the journey for several months with just a few hours a week (10). As of now, I'm just shy of lvl 50.
One of the great things about WoW is how well the game difficulty scales as you go along.
I finished the update last night on my 15" FP iMac. No problems.
However, the complaints on Apple's internal boards indicate issues with Ethernet connections. I use Airport, and it's fine.
Dunno what your problem is, then. My T68i synched up properly out of the box, and iSync works great between that and two iPods with my FP iMac. There was no work involved.
Sounds like user error to me.
Contracts begin with an offer. Where is the offer here? Is the network "offering" to let me watch its programs in return for my commercial-watching activity? If so, when do I "accept" this offer? Do I accept the offer by turning on the TV? No, because I'm able to freely turn the channels whenever I've decided to move on. There is nothing holding me to one particular show
or another, or even to one particular network.
Say I decide to watch a show on NBC at 8pm. What if after 10 mins of watching, I remember that I've seen the show before and I turn the channel to ABC to check out their 8pm time-slot. Then did I committ myself to watching the NBC show? Or maybe only the commercials in the 10 minutes that I inadvertantly put up with twice? And what about the ABC show? I've now missed about 1/3 of the show, assuming a half-hour broadcast. Am I liable to try to go back and watch the commercials in the first 10 minutes? That's ludicrous, I didn't get any content for those minutes.
Furthermore, what's keeping me from flipping to the Discovery channel for each 30 minute segment of commercials? What's the difference between that behavior and pushing a button to do it for you. By the TV-Executive's logic, the TV remote should also be banned for breaking the sacred TV commercial contract. The remote makes it easier for me to skip to another channel that is showing actual content instead of commercials.
Complete rubbish.
Another thought: I may be a sap, but I actually pay for my cable access. That payment is to my cable provider, who has to pay fees to the individual networks to carry their content. So why is it exactly that I am engaging in theft for not watching something that I am paying for?