Yeah, Seagate’s GoFlex Satellite and Kingston’s Wi-Drive already have this market on lock, but you won’t find us kvetching about a healthy dose of competition. Transcend has just outed yet another product in its growing StoreJet lineup, with the StoreJet Cloud stopping by the FCC for a cursory glance prior to being formally revealed here in the States. We’re betting it’ll get an official reveal next week at CES, where it’ll offer wireless media streaming to (at least) iOS devices via an associated app. It looks as if streaming to traditional web browsers will also be supported at launch, with Android support following shortly thereafter. Unfortunately, it also looks like pricing is apt to keep this thing away from the masses, with a paltry 64GB model rumored to run $300.

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We’ve seen many a theoretical demonstration of lightning-quick networks, but most use some rather special purpose hardware — like lasers and such that your average ISP doesn’t have hanging around. However, this new benchmark of 448Gbps is a little more impressive because it was achieved on commercial fiber hardware. A few teams of researchers were the ones shoveling the bits, including the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, the National Inter-university Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), and good ‘ol Ericsson. It’s said to be the world’s first transmission line operating at that speed, and what’s most impressive is that it’ll be tested on further network segments in the coming months ahead of becoming an actual product at some point in the not-too-distant future. Not soon enough.

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When Australia goes to the polls on August 21st, citizens will vote for more than men and the traditional issues they represent — the ballots cast will directly impact the country’s national broadband plan. Where Australia’s ruling Labor party had pledged A$43 billion for an up-to-100Mbps fiber optic network fed directly to 90 percent of homes (and agreed to pay A$11 billion to Telstra) over the next seven to eight years, the opposing Liberal-National coalition says if elected, it will scrap that notion in favor of a cheaper A$6.3 billion plan. That money would create a fiber-optic backbone by 2017 but actually connects homes with hybrid fiber-coaxial connections, DSL and about A$2 billion worth of wireless, with a minimum promised speed of 12Mbps. The coalition says these services would cover 97 percent of Australians, with satellite coverage for the final 3 percent, and that those networks receiving funds from the project and connecting to the backbone would have to compete based on pricing (set by the country’s Competition and Consumer Commission) and pledge open access. Having never lived in Australia ourselves, we don’t know what’s best, but we’re pretty sure we wouldn’t be satisfied with the 12Mbps end of the Liberal-National stick.

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Settings needed to get Cisco’s WebAuth authenticating with Microsoft’s IAS Radius.

Ever had a problem you could not figure out? Well this little sucker gave me a headache.

This little chestnut ended up being pretty simple compared to when we looked back on everything we did try.

A funny quote that comes to mind (Eureka):

Henry: Do you remember Occam’s Razor?
Carter: uh…”Simple things are true”?
Henry: Close enough.

I guess you had to see the episode

Basically to start if you are running a Cisco controller with WPA-PSK, turn it off on all SSID’s. We were told this much later by an Australian TAC technician if you are using WLC 4400 series up to IOS 5.2 (February 2009 release) you cannot run WebAuth via Radius even if you have 8021.x working fine; it is a know problem.

Okay lets begin…..

I will be writing this as if you have everything installed, there isn’t a need for me to reinvent the wheel so these pointed links should suffice.

Also I am not giving technical advise, the steps below are to give you an insight to how it worked for me; please make sure you have backups before you start.

Okay below is a very basic step by step, to get more info use the links. These settings are used on our setup and may not necessary suit your needs however there is enough info to get you started.

Skill level: 7 – (1 Novice – 5 intermediate – 10 Expert)

Preferred Ingredients:

Windows 2003 Enterprise Service Pack 2
Microsoft IAS (Radius) Server ver 5x +
Cisco wireless controller with IOS 4.2.176.0 minimum
DHCP server with scope options set

The Links provided have a generic approach to get you going, what you will find here is specifics to get it working using the ingredients listed.

Tip #1: A good idea on how to start is read the links and the steps below will fall into place even easier.

Setup your IAS to recieve requests from your Cisco controller:
Microsoft IAS RADIUS for wireless authentication

Create a new “Radius Client” – This is the IP of your Cisco Controller, I’ve used vendor ‘Cisco’ instead of ‘Radius Standard’; remember your password you will need it later.

Create a new “Access Policy” – Just start simple IMO add a “Windows-Group” such as ‘Domain Users’ & “NAS-IP-Address” which is your controllers IP.

Tip #2: If you get an error, the less complicated the policy the easier the troubleshooting.

Tip #3: If you want to test your Radius server is working I recommend using NTRadPing 1.5 RADIUS Utility for testing.

To allow application to talk to your radius server create another “Radius Client” but this time use the workstation IP you have NTRadPing installed on; use radius standard and remember the password you set.

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Setup your Cisco controller for WebAuth – This site explains using Cisco’s ACS Radius Server but up to Figure 7 should get most of your settings ready for use.
Wireless LAN Controller Web Authentication

Log into your Cisco Controller.

We need to create a connection to our IAS Radius Server.

Go to ‘Security’ Tab >

On the side menu ‘RADIUS’ + ‘Authentication’

Enter your IAS (Radius) details, IP, password and make sure ‘Server Status’ is enabled; everything else as default i.e. as port ’1812′.

Rinse, Repeat with ‘Accounting’ under ‘RADIUS’ menu.

Create a new ‘Interface’ under ‘CONTROLLER’ > ‘Interfaces’ and call it “GuestWIFI” (add all the relevant information needed such as GW, DHCP, VLAN ID etc.)

Note.

Whilst you are in ‘Interfaces’ check to make sure your ‘virtual’ interface has an IP, sometimes if not setup right the address will be “0.0.0.0″.

This will stop your WebAuth page from working. If no address is there give it something like “1.1.1.1″ and that should get you cooking.

Go to ‘WLAN’ in Tab menu and make a new SSID, call it “GUEST”

Edit SSID “GUEST” and under ‘GENERAL TAB’ make sure ‘Status’ = enabled, ‘Radio Policy’ = ‘All’, ‘Interface’ = “GuestWIFI” , ‘Broadcast SSID’ is ticked (ON).

Go to ‘SECURITY TAB’ > ‘LAYER 2 TAB’ then make sure ‘Layer 2 Security’ = None and ‘MAC filtering” is unticked (OFF).

Next go to tab ‘LAYER 3′ and make sure ‘Layer 3 Security’ = None, ‘Web Policy’ is ticked (ON), ‘Authentication’ radio box is selected and everything else is default.

Next go to ‘AAA SERVERS’ and make sure ‘Authentication Servers’ & ‘Accounting Servers’ = Enabled and ‘Server 1′ drop boxes have servers you created for selection.

For the rest everything else should be okay on Default.

The last thing is what authentication method we are using.

Go to ‘CONTROLLER’ Tab main page.

There is a setting called “Web Radius Authentication”

Make sure you set the Authentication to what you want your Cisco controller to send to IAS Radius server – PAP, CHAP or MD5-CHAP are your options.

Hope this small how to gives you a better idea

Cheers,

Phil