Jim Geier

Jim Geier is an independent consultant who assists firms with the development of wireless network products and the integration of wireless networks into corporate information systems. His 20 years of experience includes the analysis, design, software development, installation, and support of numerous client/server and wireless network-based systems for retail, manufacturing, warehousing, healthcare, and airline industries throughout the world. Jim is the author of three books—Wireless LANs, Wireless Networking Handbook, and Network Re-engineering—as well as numerous articles, columns, and newsletters. He is currently writing a new book on emerging wireless LAN standards, which will be published in early 2001. Jim also speaks regularly about wireless networking topics at seminars, conferences, and tradeshows, and he maintains an online guide to wireless networking (www.wireless-nets.com/guide.htm). He has served as the Dayton Section Chairman of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society and Chairman of the IEEE International Conference on Wireless LAN Implementation, and he was an active member of the IEEE 802.11 Working Group, responsible for developing international standards for wireless LANs. Jim's education includes a bachelor's and a master's degree in electrical engineering, with an emphasis in computer networking and software development.

Listen to Jim Geier discuss VoWLAN deployment. Podcast courtesy of Network World.