This program is intended for wireless professionals interested in pursuing a network administrator credential or career. The labs contained within this set are designed to give a student confidence in configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting a broad cross section of the types of equipment and software used every day by wireless LAN administrators. With CWNA RALO, experience is attainable from your desktop.

The CWSP Online Remote Access Labs Only are accessed through a web-based, remote control infrastructure, referred to as the WiTS - Network Operastions Center or WiTS-NOC, which is centralized at our Colorado Data Center. Students download a small remote control application that runs on their local PC and uses a high-speed Internet connection to take over various pieces of WLAN equipment located within the WiTS-NOC. The equipment is viewed in a second desktop window that appears on the student's local PC and gives them complete control over the remote equipment. The access speed is determined by the speed of the student's connection, but even for slower Internet connections it is very nearly realtime. The only issue is that students will need to be allowed to passthrough any corporate firewalls using the standard ports required by the remote control application. This has rarely been an issue and has always been accomplished successfully through a simple request to the student's IT department. Port requirements are available upon request.

Following is a partial list of the equipment and software that is assigned to each student for the duration of your enrollment into the CWSP Online Remote Access Labs Only course:

CWSP Online students are assigned laptops per student/team
Microsoft WinXP SP2
Microsoft WZC
Atheros-based External dual band WLAN adapter
NetStumbler
AirDefense Mobile
Leagcy SOHO-grade single-band access point
Internal WLAN adapter
Wildpackets OmniPeek
Cognio/AirMagnet Spectrum Analysis PC card
CommView for WiFi
SMAC
AirCrack
ProConvert
AeroHive Enterprise-grade dual-band access point
AeroHive Captive Portal
CoWPAtty
Elektron CA and RADIUS Server
Microsoft PEAP
AirMagnet Enterprise WIPS
HyperTerminal
AirMagnet Smart Sensor 5120 dual band with spectrum analysis

Following is a list of the contents of “CWSP Labs Only –

Lab 1- WLAN Discovery
Lab 2- Legacy Wireless Vulnerabilities
Lab 3- Current Wireless Security Technology
Lab 4- Enterprise Wireless Intrusion Prevention Systems