Wireless & Mobile WorldExpo
May 18 - 19, 2005
National Trade Centre at Exhibition Place, Toronto, Canada
Vaho Rebassoo
Chief Technology Officer Computing and Network Operations, Boeing

An Enterprise View of Wireless Technology

Wireless technologies have a compelling business value in large manufacturing environments. This presentation will describe what The Boeing Company has done to implement 802.11 technologies in factory and campus areas, and the various applications that have driven the business cases. It will portray our wireless architecture, particularly for dealing with multiple wireless technologies, and it will discuss the opportunities that we see in implementation of future wireless capabilities, including 802.16, 802.1x and the varieties of 802.11. Finally, it will discuss the issues that we encountered in deployment of these technologies

Biographical Summary:

As Chief Technology Officer, Computing and Network Operations, Vaho Rebassoo is responsible for strategic planning and direction for infrastructure technology across The Boeing Company.
Dr. Rebassoo has over 25 years of experience in systems engineering and technical management in network and computing. This includes key roles with the Pentagon Telecommunications Center, Bell Laboratories in development of the 5ESS switch and the System 85 PBX, and at Boeing, designing, implementing and operating large complex networks and computing infrastructures.
He joined Boeing in 1984 as Chief Engineer for the Boeing Telephone Service Modernization Program. He assumed responsibility for the entire program in 1988, then all Network Operations in 1988 and Network Technical Services in 1992.
In 1997 he was promoted to CTO of Network and Computing Operations, responsible for planning, design and implementation of IT infrastructure enterprise-wide.
Dr. Rebassoo received his BA degree from Harvard University and his Master’s and PhD degrees from the University of Washington.
He is the member of numerous executive advisory boards, including the Washington Technology Alliance, the Department of State Telecommunications Advisory Committee, the FCC Network Reliability and Interoperability Council, the UCLA Wireless Research Council, and the University of Washington Master of Science in Information Systems (MSIS) Program.