JANET Wireless Technology Advisory Service

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The Wireless Technology Advisory Service (WTAS) provides free advice and guidance to organisations on all aspects of wireless technologies - eg. selection, implementation, security, best practice. A wide range of information is published on this web site, including technology guides, and case studies - see the menu links above.

For further details see About WTAS.

 

Enquiries

To make an enquiry, in the first instance you should either:

• contact JANET Service Desk and ask for JANET WTAS,
• e-mail: service @ja.net citing JANET WTAS, or
• e-mail the service manager directly

Advice to the JANET community is provided free of charge. We make best endeavours to provide accurate, impartial and unbiased advice, however any information provided regarding specific products should be checked with the relevant suppliers and any cost indications are estimates only - binding quotations should be sought from the appropriate supplier.

Factsheets:

• WEP, WPA or Other? (pdf) - a short factsheet detailing the vulnerabilities in WEP and explaining why we recommend that WEP is not utilised.

• Rogue Wireless Suppression (pdf) - what are the potential problems (and legal implications) of automating rogue access point disabling techniques?

• Guest and Public Network Access (pdf) - highlights the difference between guests (those with legitimate education-related reasons to be on your site) and the public (people who might be on your campus only coincidentally, using rights of way or visiting museums, cafes etc.), and explores the practical and legal implications of offering network access to these groups.

 

Presentations

Presentations from future events relating to the WTAS will be linked here.

Proceedings of the JANET Technology Briefing Event October 25 2007

JANET wireless technology discussion e-mail list

• A JISCmail wireless-admin @wireless-admin.ac.uk open public mailing list has been set up for the community to discuss wireless issues. Interested parties are invited to join.

Reference

Useful news stories etc., archived.

 

Any problems, comments or suggestions regarding this page, please e-mail the WTAS service manager