Course description: IBM Lotus Mobile Connect Solutions Workshop (Self-Paced Online)

Once the id and password are provided, the course must be completed in 90 days.

Lotus Mobile Connect provides mobile users and industry leading handheld PDA users with the highest level of data security with optimized data and connectivity costs. It also delivers seamless automatic cross-network roaming that allows mobile users to stay connected when the network layer fails, hops, or changes to another transport. Lotus Mobile Connect delivers best-of-breed performance, cost-optimization and a productive user experience.

In this workshop, you will learn how Lotus Mobile Connect integrates with new or existing WebSphere Portal, Lotus Sametime, and Lotus Domino installations.

Note: This course is a self-paced virtual classroom offering. The average time to complete the course is 55 hours. Once you have registered you will have 90 days to complete this course.

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This is a basic course for solution architects, system adminstrators,

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You should have:

• A sound understanding of TCP/IP networking and routing is essential; only a refresher will be provided
• A sound knowledge of your intended wired, dial-up and wireless network topologies
• An understanding of network security (firewalls, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), RADIUS, authentication and Virtual Private Network (VPN) encryption)
• Basic UNIX skills are desirable for the practical sessions but are not essential; practical sessions use Red Hat Linux
• A working knowledge of the devices you plan to mobilize; Windows Mobile is used in the lab sessions

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• Enhance mobile workforce satisfaction by making their application and network connection more robust and easy to use with minimal user interaction
• Help reduce data transfer costs through compression techniques and network selection prioritization
• Install and configure Lotus Mobile Connect
• Add Lotus Mobile Connect to your business solution to help improve wireless and wired connectivity, strengthen data security, minimize data transfer costs, and keep users connected

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• Lotus Mobile Connect overview
• Wireless networking fundamentals
• Using HTTP access services and single sign-on
• Capabilities of monitoring packet flow using wg_monitor
• Installing and configuring Lotus Mobile Connect, the wireless gatekeeper (administration services) and mobile client
• Accessing backend servers, including WebSphere Portal, Lotus Sametime, and Lotus Domino
• Using client autostart capabilities and installing and configuring the mobility client
• Demonstration of roaming capabilities of Lotus Mobile Connect
• How to use the toolkit
• Problem determination and resolution including client tracing and logging
• Solution architecture and best practices

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Special Note for IBM Business Partners authorized to remarket public classes and on-site classes: This course is excluded from the IBM Training Services for Enterprise - on-site Education Program for IBM Business Partners.

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