Seattle Area System Administrators Guild

I’ll be showing use of a Nokia 810 running linux
on a PDA and doing what Blackberry does and lots
more. All of that, with open source software that any
system administrator can reproduce for his
organization.

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As an engineer, Mr. Banan has over 20 years experience. He is a recognized expert in the design and implementation of distributed systems, especially message handling systems and mobile data networks. Mr. Banan has run Neda Communications as a successful and profitable company since 1991.

Mr. Banan has accumulated a large body of publications. Some of his most recent and influential publications include RFC-2524, RFC-2188, Internetwork Mobility (published by Prentice-Hall), and the ground-breaking industry white paper Operation WhiteBerry.

Mr. Banan holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering (Magna Cum Laude) from Seattle University and an MS degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Washington.

First I will discuss the theory of load balancers and then give a practical demonstration of how they work.

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Jeff Silverman is a Network Support Engineer at F5 Networks. He is fully qualified on the Local Traffic Manager, which is F5’s load balancer offering. He is also qualifying on enterprise manager, which is a tool to manage large numbers (>10) local traffic managers. Jeff used to be a Linux system administrator at Real Networks. Prior to that, he was a Java developer and sysadmin at the UW college of Forest Resources (see http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera/fccs/). He was the system administrator for Research Computing Systems at the UW Electrical Engineering department. He was the MS-Windows sysadmin, UNIX sysadmin, and release engineer for Mathsoft (now Insightful). He has patent 5,296,853, for an icing detector for aircraft. His favorite linux distribution is Ubuntu but he uses Red Hat Fedora at work. Jeff is married with 4 children, 3 grandchildren, and 1 more grandchild due in April.