Rick Kraus

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About Rick Kraus

Areas of Expertise:• LAN/WAN, Optical and WLAN – VoIP, Voice over Wireless (Polycom/Spectralink), Vocera and Emergin; Ekahau RTLS calibration, RF Site survey and RTLS Tag management. BGP including Juniper MX, Cisco and Extreme.• Security – VMware based NAC, user/device authentication, EAPOL, RADIUS, LDAP, AD, E-Dir, Captive Portal, VPN, Firewalls, Web switching, content filtering and server load balancing. Includes AirWave, Clearpass and Cisco ACS integration. Juniper SRX, Palo Alto, FortiNet, Sonic Wall including IPSec and SSL VPN.• Network Management – Enterprise network Configuration, Performance IP Flow Management, SNMP, MIBs; Enterprise Policy Manager, Switch Management software; Windows, Solaris platforms. • Tools - Ekahau Site Survey, AirMagnet Spectrum Analyzer, Omnipeek, AirDefense, LAN Sniffer, Smartbits, Ixia Chariot.Specialties: Certifications:Certified Design and Support Expert on Nortel Data and WLAN technologies (NCDE, NCSE), includes Juniper (Trapeze) and AireSpace (Cisco) WLAN portfolios. Over 25 certifications on Ascom, Nortel, Cisco, Symbol, 3com and other legacy router/switch vendors. Juniper Mist, Extreme Black Belt including EXOS and EOS routing/switching, Extreme XMC and NAC Control Engine, Extreme wireless including ExtremeIQ, WING and IdentiFi/XCA cloud.Familiar with wired and/or wireless networking products on the following vendors:Avaya, Nortel, Ascom, Juniper, Cisco, Motorola, Aruba, Meru, Xirrus, Polycom, HP, Extreme.