Wireless Standards

1. Wireless Standards By Steve, Amy, and Victor

2. Introduction • Wireless Standards • General Business Benefits • Examples • Security

3. Wireless Standards • IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.16, Bluetooth, HomeRF • 802.11n… a new standard.

4. General Business Benefits Study by Intel • Cost savings of installing wireless computing in a 3,000 employee building • Costs about half as much as installing wired connections. • Time savings of 52 minutes per user per week through multitasking during meetings, enabled by wireless computing. • Financial benefits of implementing a wireless computing infrastructure in conference rooms.

5. General Business Benefits Cont’d • Qualitative wireless computing benefits in the following areas: • Perceived productivity • Spontaneous meetings enabled by wireless computing • Wireless computing at home

6. McDonald’s • McDonald’s always had been known for their fast food, but now customers have another reason to stop in. • Wi-Fi in over 6,200 restaurants worldwide. • Up to 50 times faster than standard dial-up service. • Prices

7. Would you like Wi-Fi with that?

8. Airline Industry • A move towards connecting flights to wireless internet has begun. • Air-to-ground network • Cannot go over ocean • Satellite-based system • Cost and weight

9. Airline Industry Cont’d • Studies show 39% of travelers who take more than 10 flights per year would pay for in-flight Wi-Fi access. • Leisure travel market smaller and more price sensitive. • 16% would pay up to $5 • 5% would pay up to $10 • Opens other in-flight entertainment options, from live television to music to phone calls via the internet. • Struggling to take off in domestic market. • Need revenue generators

10. Optical Wireless • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center goes wireless! • Quicker instillation • Cheaper • Drawbacks • Only ½ mile max distance • New WiMax

11. 5 Security Essentials • Plug the authentication hole • The goal: Approve the right users for network access. • Ways to achieve it: Use encrypted authentication software and end user device validation. Deploy hardware tokens where needed. • Example: WPA

12. 5 Essentials Cont’d • Control access to limit risks • The goal: Restrict resource access to approved users, keeping data secret. • Ways to achieve it: Regulate what employees access. Restrict guests. Don’t advertise.

13. 5 Essentials Cont’d • Add security through obscurity • The goal: Keep data secret. • Ways to achieve it: Transmit data that only the users understand. • Example: NYK Logistics

14. 5 Essentials Cont’d • Protect the network itself • The goal: Maintain mission-critical operations. • Ways to achieve it: Intrusion detection, limited authorized access, deploying parallel networks. • Example: UPS Network

15. 5 Essentials Cont’d • Secure public wireless access • The goal: Ensure data and access security for users in external networks. • Ways to achieve it: Proprietary networks and devices, isolated connections. • Example: Optimus

16. Key Points • 802.11n is new and developing • Bluetooth is becoming more and more popular • There are many security issues wireless users need to keep in mind • Wireless is popping up all over the place

17. Questions?

18. Sources • http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/WLANStandards.asp • http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/112305-cancer-center.html • http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/020606-cartoon-cell-phones.html • http://www.mcdonalds.com/wireless.html • http://www.wayport.com/press/212 • http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0602190197feb19,1,2885564.story?coll=chi-business-hed • http://www.teleclick.ca/2006/01/atheros-announces-first-80211n-wireless-products/ • www.CSOonline.com