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MPLS VPN's
Through working with Orchestream Service Activator, James has acquired considerable knowledge in the area of MPLS VPN deployment. As Lead Analyst on Energis' project to roll out Voice CoS, he has also gained extensive knowledge of the Diffserv architecture for deployment of IP QoS.  
xDSL (Broadband)
James was responsible for Layer 3 aspects of Cable & Wireless' LLU Broadband solution. He is familiar with all the major technologies in this field including ATM, PPPoA, L2TP tunnelling and RADIUS authentication.  
Remote Access
James was the Technical Design Authority for Dial Services at C&W and was also responsible for the implementation of the Remote Access infrastructure at the BBC. James is considered an expert in this field and is familiar with dial-offload solutions (such as Cisco's ThunderDial) involving SS7 signalling, Q931 over IP, PPP and RADIUS.  
Security
James is skilled in the configuration of a number of firewall devices including Cisco PIX and Checkpoint Firewall 1. He is also familiar with the common DoS attacks and the configuration of Cisco routers to defend against them.  
Windows 2000 Server
James has been working with Windows NT Server since version 3.1 and prior to that was certified in MS LAN Manager. He has a wealth of knowledge and experience in the deployment of Windows 2000 Active Directory and associated technologies e.g.DNS, WINS, DHCP, LDAP etc.  
Internet Information Server
James has worked with IIS since version 1.0 and is highly skilled in its deployment and configuration. James has worked with the very latest IIS technology and is proficient in the configuration of FTP, WWW, NNTP and SMTP sites.  
Wi-Fi
James has considerable experience in the field of wireless network communications gained whilst working on a project for BT Openzone. He is skilled in the deployment of secure wifi solutions using technoligies such as WPA and TKIP for certificate-based 802.1x RADIUS authentication and encryption. James is familiar with all of the major wifi standards including 802.11a/b/g.  
MS Exchange
James's background in messaging systems such as MS Mail and cc:Mail proved invaluable in updating to MS Exchange. James has experience of the deployment of large scale Exchange 2000 systems and is highly skilled in the secure configuration of multi-server solutions.