Addressing Mobility in Campus Networks
Friday November 11, 2011 2:00PM ET/ 11:00 AM PT | Shehzad discusses trends in education and Extreme's new Mobile Student architecture that address the business and technology needs of IT administrators. The solution scales and applies equally well to other enterprise campus environments, including hospitality, public sector, and manufacturing. The architecture introduces a distributed and converged WLAN and wired data plane, along with rich identity management and lowest total cost of ownership. The talk will include a detailed description of Extreme's scalable WLAN portfolio, and a look ahead to unified policy management across the campus. What you will learn: - Where the industry is going in terms of mobility and networking
- Some of the latest product trends to address mobility
- New technologies around identity based networking
- How to reduce cost and overhead when dealing with mobile users
Who should attend: - CIOs, network architects and network operators looking to deploy innovative solutions to address challenges associated with a mobile workforce, mobile students, and BYOD (Bring your own device).
- Resellers, VARs and channels looking to learn about emerging trends and solutions around campus and wireless solutions
| Presenters:
| Shehzad Merchant | | Vice President of Strategic Technology Extreme Networks, Inc. |  Shehzad Merchant serves as Vice President of Strategic Technology at Extreme Networks, a global leader in Ethernet networking, where he drives strategy and technology direction for advanced data center networking. With over 17 years of industry experience, and an engineering track record that is highlighted by the achievement of several technology patents, Shehzad is a veteran of wired and wireless Ethernet and communications. Prior to Extreme Networks, Shehzad held various technology and executive management roles spanning his career. Shehzad previously served in the CTO office at Nevis Networks, a company specializing in network security. Prior to Nevis, Shehzad was co-founder and vice president of Engineering at Polytime Systems. Shehzad holds an MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California.
| | Peter Bernstein | | Senior Editor, TMCnet |  Peter Bernstein is a seasoned writer and professional with deep experience in the communications and IT industries. As a top-level industry analyst, Peter has keynoted major technology events and has been cited numerous times by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, Business Week, Fortune Magazine, ComputerWorld, NetworkWorld, Communications Week, among other publications.
Bernstein has authored or co-authored market research studies, CEO speeches, white papers, articles, and other content for major companies in the technology markets. His experience includes work with Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Equant, France Telecom, HP, Siemens, Verizon, Nortel, Wave Systems, and many more. He held the position of director of global marketing and communications at Telcordia.
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