Agenda for MUM in USA08, MAY 2008

updated on May 15, 2008 at 16:11 GMT


May 12, Monday

TimeAction
08:00Training Class (Essential, Routing and Wireless, Traffic management and Wireless classes). Training requires separate registration: http://www.mikrotik.com/pricelist.php?sect=4#group21 by MikroTik
18:00Welcome party (free beer) for participants of MikroTik Training, MUM, ISPcon, Holiday Inn Select Hotel Naperville

May 13, Tuesday

TimeAction
08:00Training Class (Essential, Routing and Wireless, Traffic management and Wireless classes). Training requires separate registration: http://www.mikrotik.com/pricelist.php?sect=4#group21 by MikroTik
20:00WISPA Jam session, just after WISPA welcome party at 6PM (Takes place in Rosemonth Convention Center near O'Hare

May 14, Wednesday

TimeAction
08:00Training Class (Essential, Routing and Wireless, Traffic management and Wireless classes), Certification exams. Training requires separate registration: http://www.mikrotik.com/pricelist.php?sect=4#group21 by MikroTik
18:00MUM pre-Registration, Drinks, Meet'n'Greet

May 15, Thursday

TimeAction
08:00Registration, Opening
09:00RouterBOARD announcement by Normunds Rustanovics, MikroTik (Latvia)
09:45ARC IES (Integrated Enclosure Solution) Generation II by Todd Schaefer, ARC (USA)
10:30Public Wireless networks and Hotspots by Brian Vargyas, BOINGO (USA)
11:15Towards the Ideal Mikrotik Wireless CPE and Developments of Antenna Systems by Tim Kataras, Poynting Antennas (USA)
12:00Lunchtime
13:00Wireless workshop by Uldis Cernevskis, MikroTik (Latvia)
13:45WISPA CALEA standard and Mikrotik's implementation by Butch Evans and Michael Erskine (USA)
14:30CALEA workshop by Butch Evans (USA)
18:00Welcome party continuation (free beer) for participants of MUM, at Holiday Inn Select Hotel Naperville. WISPA Jam Band will be playing Johnny Cash songs. After that, party continuation sponsored by Hutton!

May 16, Friday

TimeAction
08:00Registration, Socializing
09:00QoS workshop by Janis Megis, MikroTik (Latvia)
09:45Common Wireless connection issues by Jaromir Cihak, Sys-Data (Czech Republic)
10:05Hotspot and User Manager Workshop by Sergejs Boginskis, MikroTik (Latvia)
10:50Making Revenue with Hotspots by Dennis Burgess (USA)
11:35The Dude workshop by Steven Zilis, ZnetWorks (USA)
12:20Lunchtime
13:20RuralMAX at NEGER Telecom by Eduardo Neger, Neger Telecom (Brazil)
14:05100% Solar MikroTik AP Setup by Michael Down, SkyWi (USA)
14:50The Story of The City of Lincoln, Nebraska by Carl Garaffa (USA)
15:35MikroTik Hotspots in Comspeco networks by Comspeco
16:20Raffle with prizes, Ending of MUM

Speaker Profiles and Presentation Abstracts

MikroTik Sign up for the MikroTik official training classes before MUM. See http://training.mikrotik.com[top]
Todd Schaefer, ARC (USA) ARC IES (Integrated Enclosure Solution) Generation II with universal mounting system and other NEW features, benefits and cost savings. [top]
Tim Kataras, Poynting Antennas (USA) This paper explores the current state of the art in outdoor enclosure and antenna design, outlining what has come to be expected by operators of not just Mikrotik wireless equipment, but of a range of outdoor fixed-wireless technologies. We present an overview of the advances made in the last four years in CPE enclosure and antenna design and what we, as a manufacturer, have learned from intensive feedback from people all over the world using and deploying Mikrotik equipment with our products for wireless applications. [top]
Butch Evans and Michael Erskine (USA) Butch Evans has been an ISP since 1994 and has a vast amount of experience in building and maintaining ISP networks. He is familiar with the needs of ISPs from a network engineering perspective and can assist any ISP with the design and implementation of a network that is secure, responsive and reliable.[top]
Janis Megis, MikroTik (Latvia) Janis will teach you some interesting Queue secrets and advanced tricks how to implement QoS in your network[top]
Sergejs Boginskis, MikroTik (Latvia) Sergejs will demonstrate MikroTik Hotspot and it's features, teach you some interesting tricks and show you how the new User Manager works with it. [top]
Dennis Burgess (USA) Dennis M. Burgess -- www.mikrotikconsulting.com, St. Louis, MO. USA Dennis Burgess is a Mikrotik Certified Engineer, and has been doing consulting for small and medium sized businesses for over 8 years. Deploying a variety of products, including, Microsoft, Cisco, and other networking, and server gear, he has consulted on many projects across the USA and several world-wide.[top]
Steven Zilis, ZnetWorks (USA) Steve is the first The Dude consultant and has a large network of devices monitored in his Dude setup. He will show you how it all works, and all the possibilities Dude offers. [top]
Eduardo Neger, Neger Telecom (Brazil) RuralMAX is a project developed for NEGER Telecom, a Brazilian company specialized in wireless telecommunication engineering, providing low cost solutions for voice and data communication in rural and remote areas. This project was selected by the Brazilian Science and Technology Ministry to receive public funding support.[top]
Carl Garaffa (USA) At this time The City of Lincoln, Nebraska, with my help has deployed over sixty (60) MikroTik systems. Their wireless systems are comprised mostly of 230 Router Boards and the 532 Router Boards. After a lot of discussions and review, I am happy to tell you that the City of Lincoln, Nebraska plans on deploying an additional fifty (50) new MikroTik systems in 2008. I have been asked to assist them with upgrading all of their existing systems as well as work with them on their future deployments. [top]