Hello, my name is Tyler McMahon with Aruba, and this is our Aruba mobility essentials course part one. So in this video are third in the series, we're going to cover wireless LAN organizations. In the previous video, we covered wired vs wireless, some of the differences. Now we're going to get into the standards that cover our wireless deployments. Let's take a look. Alright, so Wireless LAN organizations, what do we need to cover? Well, it's good to start with the different major organizations that are out there, starting with the IETF, the Internet Engineering Task Force. This is the organization that develops these open standards, through the use of what they call request for comments or white papers on these particular standards bodies. And they helped to establish new technology, working with major vendors in the field. If somebody comes up with a new technology or somebody proposes it, then it can be adopted as a standard that other vendors can utilize. The FCC when it comes to wireless is probably one that you're already familiar with If you're familiar with music and other broadcast television. This is the organization that basically regulates what channels are being used for, FM or AM radio, for example, they regulate all the RF communications within a particular region, the region, in this case, being the United States, if you're in Canada, I think it's called the IC. In Europe, it's the RTTE that takes on a lot of these roles. But these is the teeth that can find an organization. For example, if you use channel spaces that you're not supposed to or that are licensed for another company. Or if you're using power levels within your channel space, beyond what's allowed. The IEEE, you might also be familiar with, this is the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. They set the IEEE standards of what modulation techniques and what technology specifically use in the world of wireless or wired. In wireless, we're going to be looking at the 802.11 standards in a bit more depth here, I mentioned in the previous video the 802.11a X standard, this is known as Wi-Fi six. It's the latest standard to come out from the IEEE with a tone of new features and usability for wireless. We'll be going over some of those features here in just a moment as well, in this series of videos. Lastly, but not unimportant is the Wi-Fi Alliance. This is a non-profit, that is designed to promote interoperability and testing between client devices from Dell and Apple and Microsoft and your phones and all that, with vendor radios and vendor software. It allows this interoperability between those clients. You've got the IETF, the IEEE, and now the Wi-Fi Alliance. For Certification, If you are interested in establishing your knowledge, improving your knowledge to an employer, you might look at the standards Certification for wireless, the Certified wireless network Professional, which prides itself on being vendor-neutral, but going with a vendor Certification like the Aruba mobility Certification Path or another vendor definitely has its advantages, because you'll get hands-on knowledge on how to configure troubleshoot, set up that product. Given that there are these standards that everybody abides by, what you learn foundationally can be applied to pretty much any wireless deployment that's out there, unless you're talking about some vendor that's just doing something completely out of the ordinary there. I would invite you guys to take a peek at the Aruba mobility certifications. This Certification path you can find just by simply searching Aruba certifications it'll likely take you to this educational services website from Aruba. Scrolling down, it's a pretty good example of what a Certification path looks like, where you attend a couple days course. I think this is a three-day course here for the associate level. It gives you an opportunity to take a paid-for Certification that validates that you understand what that course taught. The standards that are taught here are very similar to what I'm going to cover over the series of videos. A lot of these slides were taken from that course, so you get a taste for exactly how standard all this stuff is, but we added on to it, being able to actually configure a stand-alone access point as well as use with some real gear, like this guy here, I don't know if I can lift it. There we go, so this, looks like a switch, like a enterprise switch. In many ways it is, this is a 7210 Aruba controller that would be used to manage not just one of these guys, but literally hundreds of them at the same time and tunnel all their traffic through this guy. You would set this up, configure it with your browser, go through it, and be able to use this in a large campus deployment or hospital, a hotel, something along those lines, this is a pretty beefy one, pretty heavy. Some of the smaller ones you would use as a small business look much more size-wise, they look similar to like a neck-ear or Belkin or something like that. But again, very high-performance devices, so following something like this Course in wireless mobility and going from the associate level to the Professional, which is after a five-day course and passing that exam. Then considering going all the way up to the expert level where you would prove not only your knowledge on how to set up large deployments but also and importantly, how to troubleshoot them at an engineering level. I hope that this gives you an insight into how engineers go about getting their Certification. But at the very least, where to go if you want to learn more about the standards, if you want to check out some RFC's, some requests for comments at the IETF. Or if you want to read the actual standard for 802.11 AX, instead of just reading marketing material from one vendor or another, I would invite you to do so. They're not bad for you, actually pretty short anyway, that's it for this video. In the next video, we're going to take on Data modulation. I know it sounds like a lot, but I'm going to break it down for you. I hope you guys enjoyed the review of organizations that govern wireless. And I'll see you guys in the next one. Thanks.
