South Africa on March 10, 2007

Agenda for MUM in South Africa, FEBRUARY 2007

updated on 2015-10-27 09:47:24 GMT+02:00

Jan 01, Thursday

Time	Presentation	Files	Video
02:00	Registration Begins, Drinks Served	-	-
02:00	Registration Begins	-	-
03:00	MikroTik Installations Around the World by Arnis Riekstins, MikroTik (Latvia)		-
03:30	Challenges Providing Wireless Internet Services from Perspective of a Rural ISP by Dolf Lombard (BreedeNet, South Africa)	-	-
04:15	Deployment of Mikrotik RouterOS in Wireless ISP by Selwyn Fockyune (Kokonet , Seychelles)	-	-
05:00	The DUDE network monitor new feature presentation, roadmap, and discussion on new feature suggestions by Uldis Cernevskis, MikroTik (Latvia)	-	-
05:45	Building Wireless networks in Czech Republic by Jaromir Cihak, Sys-Data (Czech Republic)	-	-
06:30	Lunch	-	-
07:30	Industry self regulation to ensure WISP sustainability by David Jarvis, Chairperson, WAPA (SA)	-	-
08:15	WISP Do's and Dont's by David Savage, RSA	-	-
09:00	Managing Hotspot users with the new User Manager by Uldis Cernevskis, MikroTik (Latvia)	-	-
09:45	New Obvious and Obscure Mikrotik RouterOS v3.0 features by Janis Megis, MikroTik (Latvia)	-	-
10:30	MikroTik RouterBOARD Hardware roadmap by Arnis Riekstins, MikroTik (Latvia)	-	-
11:15	Raffle and Closing of MUM	-	-

Speaker Profiles and Presentation Abstracts

MikroTik Installations Around the World

Technical Director of MikroTik and has provided MikroTik training all around the world. He has participated in numerous large scale MikroTik system installations in many countries, inluding Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, South Africa, Indonesia and more.

Challenges Providing Wireless Internet Services from Perspective of a Rural ISP

Dolf operates a WISP in Breede River valley

Deployment of Mikrotik RouterOS in Wireless ISP

Kokonet are from Seychelles, they have made various network setups with MikroTik and this will be their second time at the MUM. They will also talk of deployment of Mikrotik Hotspot (Kokozone, which covers the whole island)

The DUDE network monitor new feature presentation, roadmap, and discussion on new feature suggestions

Wireless support specialist at MikroTik for six years. He supports a number of customers that are installing wireless MESH systems.

Building Wireless networks in Czech Republic

A reseller and frequent MUM visitor, Jaromir also conducts local trainings in Czech Republic

Industry self regulation to ensure WISP sustainability

Since 1999 David has been involved in last-mile broadband delivery beginning with his work in Mozambique, where he established the first Wireless ISP in Mozambique. Since returning to Cape Town in 2002 David has grown UniNet to provide wireless coverage in greater Cape Town area and Knysna district. David has been active in number of educational and rural development projects. In 2006 David was one of the founding members of WAPA, the Wireless Access providers Association and he was elected chairperson.

WISP Do's and Dont's

David is Cerified MikroTik Trainer and consultant.

New Obvious and Obscure Mikrotik RouterOS v3.0 features

Working as a trainer at MikroTik and providing training before the MUM, Janis is also testing specialist and knows a lot about RouterOS