Multimedia-grade over wireless

Today, I got a chance attending a product showcase session with the guy in the video below: Robert Fenstermacher, at Hilton Kuala Lumpur. The event organized by Synergy TechWave.

I'm quite impress on its solution for making a multimedia over wireless more durable. Actually, we have planned couple of project in the future to improve our educational digital infrastructure. We are looking forward for a in-house IPTV over wifi (multicast), in-house Voice over wifi (VoWifi) and Video over wifi (unicast) solutions.

BlueCat vs InfoBlox : 2011

Mid of last year, we have seen a total solution of IPAM, DHCP and DNS from Infoblox. The PoC set up by Mr. Chris Wan. Along the PoC, I’m satisfied with all the features introduced by Infoblox. It really suit IIUM future planning on convergence infrastructure. After the director remarks on the early January 2011, IT Division of IIUM will embark on cloud computing, convergence system and ubiquitous network. Definitely, IIUM require structured DNS infrastructure, centralized DHCP and enterprise IP Address Management (IPAM) system.

Today, we need to see another solution on IPAM, DCHP and DNS. The presentation presented by Rick Choo from BlueCat Networks. Overall presentation shows the strength of BlueCat on IPV6 enrollment. What impress me, a reputable non-microsoft based company (PNC info) is world-widely using BlueCat solutions. To compare between InfoBlox and BlueCat… we need to perform PoC for certain period.

Photo Gallery of Aruba Airheads Conference 2010, Phuket Thailand

Aruba Airheads Conference, 1-3 December 2010, Phuket Thailand.

Dinner with Aruba's Co-founder Keerti Melkote.

Left: Me, Hitesh Sheth (COO), Keerti Melkote (CTO), Dr. Reza, Dr. Unggul

Back: Kevin Wong

10 Best Security Apps for iPhone

Apple's App Store currently holds about 85,000 applications for you to download to your iPhone or iPod Touch. Of course, about 84,900 of those programs consist of free and 99-cent games that your seven-year-old would probably find more compelling than you do. So we've scoured reviews, App Store search sites, and recommendation directories to compile this concise list of some of the best security apps currently available.

1. Video Surveillance Camera Views

EyeSpyFX has developed mobile applications that allow you to check surveillance cameras from Axis, Sony, D-Link, Linksys, Mobotix, and Vivotek. Each edition lets you set up a camera list and check the views for up to 100 cameras. You can also add cameras and bring up an edit screen to adjust camera details. When a camera goes offline, a status indicator will point that out. And the app will remember your passwords.

http://www.eyespyfx.com/ 

Price: $4.99 and less
Size: Under 0.5 MB

How to manage AP Folder in AirWave

What is folder management ? Folder in layman term means something that we can represent as location or building or LAN Room where we can group our AP. In my case, I named it based on geographical location and buildings. Currently, I'm managing a nation wide wireless infrastructure. It is important to group all the APs in order to simplify all our works. It helps us to manage the reporting and also identifying which AP is currently down. 

Firstly you need to log on to your Airwave server. After you successfully login to the Airwave Management Platform server, you will see the user interface as below:

How to set the start-time of future user on Aruba Controller ?

Many wireless administrator looking for a solution on how to set the start-time or specifying the detail such as duration/expiry time for our future user on Aruba Controller. I never come across the solution on Airheads before. Normally, by using GUI based of Aruba controller powered with ArubaOS 3.3.1.22, we can add the user inside the internal database are as follows:

Go to Configuration tab, select Authentication under security section, and click Servers tab. Then click Internal DB.

Configuration > Authentication > Servers > Internal DB

After that, there will appear configuration windows as follows:

How to configure Ubuntu 8.10 / 9.04 for 802.1x WPA TKIP environment

IIUM wireless environment implement WPA authentication and TKIP encryption. The overall using 802.1x authentication method which deploy protected EAP (PEAP) using EAP token. User database stored in a Radius server by using FreeRadius running on FreeBSD platform. 

One of my user said, before upgrading his Ubuntu 8.10, he was using Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04. The previous Ubuntu is running well. Once he upgrade it to Ubuntu 8.10, he cannot get connected to our secure wireless environment anymore. 

Hmmmmm... while other user with other stardard OS e.g Windows XP, Mac OS and Windows Vista doesn't have any problem, so I suspect, the WPA configuration in Ubuntu 8.10 something need to change drastically. It seems like doesn't works well in a secured wireless environment. 

We have tried and yes, it does not work with IIUM wireless campus. I tried to switch to fedora 10, but the result is still the same. Then we tried to migrate to knoppix, my best linux distro ever, but still not working and become more worst when knoppix cannot detect Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG device. We dont want to use ndiswrapper since it finally could corrupt my entire OS. FYI, Suse linux will work smoothly with IIUM wireless.