Providing campus-wide wired and wireless communications, the infrastructure features ATM switches for the backbone plus 100Mbps access speeds for students from the halls of residence. Students will also be able to use their laptops anywhere on the...
In fact, Bossert believes that the biggest threat to BT's WLAN business could come from private individuals who allow the public to share their broadband internet connections through open wireless access points.
He said this was akin to the network interface card in a traditional wired network topology. This is very much the wired networking model. One of the leading makers of wireless LAN (WLAN) access equipment has admitted the technology is too...
Ensure all access points are outside the firewall (i.e.treat the WLAN as external to the corporate LAN). This does require additional network hardware to terminate the connection tunnels and form bridging functions to other networks, such as wired...
Randy Guisto, vice president, personal technologies and services at IDC, said in a statement: "In lean economic times, providing a wireless LAN is a low priority for many IT organisations, while lower price points on wireless access points has...
In total across the campus and halls of residence there will be 1,000 wireless access points. We needed a hard-wired connection. A wired in-room infrastructure will be put in the halls of residence as they are refurbished over the next 10 years.