Dr.
Jim Mollenauer joins Applied Learning Solutions faculty and
WiMAX team.
Bruce Hall, chairman of the ALS wireless faculty
and curriculum, announced Friday March 24, 2006 that Dr.
Jim Mollenauer/ has
joined the faculty. Dr. Mollenauer will assist the WiMAX
team members Frank Ohrtman and Stuart Browne with the WiMAX
curriculum. Jim was one of the founders of IEEE Project 802.16
for broadband wireless networks and is a voting member. He
also chaired IEEE Project 802.6, the standardization group
for metropolitan area networks. He initiated and served as
vice-chair of Project 802.14, the committee developing standards
for cable TV modems. Mollenauer was a charter member of Projects
802.17 for metropolitan rings and 802.20 for mobile broadband
access where he is a voting member. Also, he has been involved
with the 802.11 group for wireless LANs, specializing in
quality of service issues and medium access control (MAC)
development.
Jim Mollenauer is currently President of Technical Strategy
Associates in Newton, Massachusetts, providing consultation
in advanced network technologies such as broadband wireless,
cable modems, and metropolitan networks from both a technical
and market strategy point of view. His clients include chip
vendors, system builders, and service providers in the telephone
and cable TV industries.
Prior to his present position Dr. Mollenauer was Vice President,
Advanced Technology at Artel Communications Corporation,
architecting high-performance LAN bridging and routing products.
Previously he spent 17 years at Bell Laboratories, starting
out in nuclear physics research and moving on to work in
real-time computing, time sharing, and computer-aided design.
He has also served at Prime Computer and its Computervision
division in data communication architectures and planning,
and at Codex Corporation, where he undertook strategic studies
in LAN's and metropolitan area networks, and initiated development
of a wireless LAN.
Dr. Mollenauer is the author of many articles and conference
papers on metropolitan and high speed networks. He has chaired
the IEEE Local Computer Networks Conference and served as
guest editor in metropolitan area networks for the IEEE Journal
of Special Areas in Communication. He has been awarded two
patents for his work in wireless communication.
He received his bachelor's degree at Amherst College and
his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley.
Applied Learning Solutions selected by Broadband Wireless
World to present Mesh Wireless Networks at Caesar’s
Palace
On April26, 2006 ALS will present a one day
tutorial at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas as part of the pre-conference
program at Broadband Wireless world. We were selected for
this role because of our faculty’s first hand experience
with consulting, writing RFP’s, engineering and installing
mesh networks. Bruce Hall will leave his disaster recovery
work in Louisiana to join Tom Thienel in conducting this
session.
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Applied
Learning Solutions' New Course on Voice over Wi-Fi
Frank Ohrtman,
ALS faculty member and co-developer of the ALS WiMAX workshop,
announced that he was completing the newest Applied Learning
Solutions wireless course “Voice
over Wi-FI”.
In addition to his work on the ALS WiMAX team Frank continues
to speak at WiMAX world events and produce books for McGraw
Hill and Artech House. Here is a description of Frank’s
books.
WiMAX Handbook: Building 802.16 Wireless
Networks, comprehensive overview of new last mile technology,
for McGraw-Hill.
May 2005
Voice over 802.11, 350-page technical
book explaining the use of VoIP on 802.11 (includes Wi-Fi)
wireless networks
and markets for this technology. Published by Artech House.
March 2004.
Wi-Fi Handbook: Building 802.11b Wireless
Networks, a 400 page technical book proposing 802.11
as a replacement
for PSTN access and markets for Wi-Fi applications. McGraw-Hill
Professional Telecom book. April 2003
Softswitch-Architecture for VoIP,
a 350 page McGraw-Hill Professional Telecom book that defeats
objections
to
VoIP
and softswitch technology, covers economics of and
market for softswitch, only book on the market with emphasis
on softswitch technologies. December 2002
Applied Learning Solutions' Faculty Chairman
for Wireless Networks, Bruce Hall, mobilized to help victims
of Katrina.
Bruce Hall is
the head of our Wireless Curriculum and taught courses on
Wireless
Networks in Rural America to telephone companies in both
Louisiana and Texas weeks before Hurricanes Katrina and
Rita hit. In
mid October he was mobilized by FEMA to evaluate the replacement
cost and develop the restoration plans for the (Katrina)
storm
damaged Louisiana State E911 communications systems. He is
specifically tasked with determining the replacement cost
of the 800 MHz systems and the Intrastate microwave network
linking the various parish PSAPs. Applied Learning Solutions
has full curricula on both emergency communications planning
and advanced communications technologies. Although we had
to re-schedule his teaching assignments we're very glad and
proud to have Bruce helping our friends in Louisiana.
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