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  Wireless Campus: Technical Standards
Wireless Access Points (Base Stations) must pass client DHCP requests to the wired LAN Access points/base stations are not allowed to act as Network Address Translators (NATs) or as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) servers.
For Work-Groups Only: A WECA (Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance) option consisting of a shared password may be sufficient for certain localized and short-term usage (i.e.: for the duration of a meeting).
Use of wireless for enterprise applications is not recommended in either case.
www1.umn.edu /wireless/standards.html   (756 words)

  
 Museum exhibit shows this wireless campus never sleeps - MIT News Office
Blanket wireless service is reason enough to celebrate on a campus where most of the 10,000 students own laptop computers and many work into the not-so-wee hours of the morning.
ISandT and the MIT Museum are commemorating the achievement with an exhibition called "iSpots," which features three electronic real-time maps of campus wireless use projected onto large Plexiglas rectangles that appear to float in the room.
Campus denizens can access iSpots from their laptops on the SENSEable City Lab web site and can choose to identify their own red spots of wirelessness as they move from dorm to classroom.
web.mit.edu /newsoffice/2005/ispots.html   (747 words)

  
 Campus Wireless Networking - Services - Office of Information Technology - University of Utah
To help ensure ubiquitous campus wireless coverage and to decrease the cost of wireless services for colleges and departments, a centrally managed switching infrastructure will be constructed which will allow colleges and departments to implement wireless services using “thin” access points.
Departments who choose to be a part of the campus wireless plan do not have to purchase backbone equipment, but do need to deploy a system compatible with the approved infrastructure.
Department wireless networks can access the campus uconnect.utah.edu and hotspot.utah.edu networks, and LAN admins and end-users may contact the Campus Help Desk during regular weekly business hours for client installation support and connection issues troubleshooting.
www.it.utah.edu /services/networking/wireless/index.html   (661 words)

  
 Technology News: Wireless: Campus Connectivity: No Wires
Wireless technology is also being put to work by campus police, he noted, and is used in RFID bar code scanners for retail sales, buses and other applications.
Hagen, who reported that wireless carriers are participating in the rush to school by offering students special plans, said that Microsoft is looking to leverage wireless technology with partners such as Action Engine, among providers that allow students to connect to campus information and the Internet via their wireless phones.
IDC's Bakhshi stressed the college campus as the ideal environment for mobile and wireless technology, since users are mobile and are more likely to be connected in the figurative sense.
www.technewsworld.com /story/wireless/46131.html   (817 words)

  
 Campuswide
The purpose of this policy is to provide a highly reliable and reasonably performing wireless network service while ensuring network security and integrity and minimizing the interference between the campus wireless network and other wireless technologies deployed throughout the campus.
Wireless network technology is also beneficial for gaining network access in locations that are difficult, expensive, or inconvenient to wire.
Consequently, wireless network standards and central management of the campus "air space" are necessary to protect valuable information resources and to ensure the highest degree of interoperability as one moves from one location to another on campus with a mobile device.
wireless.cofc.edu /Policy.htm   (865 words)

  
 Wireless Policy, Cyber Security, Information Technology Division, ITD
The purpose of the wireless policy and related standards and guidelines is to assure that Brookhaven National Laboratory’s (BNL’s) employees, guests, and contractors have access to a reliable, robust, and integrated wireless network, and to increase the security of the campus wireless network to the extent possible.
Wireless subnets will be isolated by a firewall from the rest of the BNL network to restrict access to network resources and allow logging.
Campus Wireless Zone - Client systems accessing the BNL Campus Wireless Zone must follow all the same guidelines for access to the network as for the wired Local Area Network (LAN) including, but not restricted to, network registration, antivirus software, up-to-date patches, and strong passwords that comply with the BNL Password Policy.
www.bnl.gov /cybersecurity/WirelessPolicy.asp   (1537 words)

  
 Getting Connected - Campus Wireless Services - Office of Information Technology - University of Utah
To download a free 802.1x wireless client, you must be on the campus network.
Some campus departments have wireless networks that are only available to their affiliates.
To keep your traffic secure, you can encrypt your wireless insecure session traffic with one of the University's VPN options, or use the alternative: a secure wireless client for use with the uconnect network.
www.it.utah.edu /services/connected/wireless   (712 words)

  
 Bytes From Lev: Case Scores Top 10 Wireless Intel Campus
Case is proud of its pervasive cloud of wireless connectivity for its students, faculty, and staff.
Wireless is an integrated part of the curriculum delivery offering in most of our professional schools.
All undergraduates are using their wireless notebooks to retrieve hundreds of searchable video streams related to their intro courses through mediavision courseware.
blog.case.edu /lsg8/2005/10/16/case_scores_top_10_wireless_intel_campus   (812 words)

  
 IBM - Wireless campus for healthcare from IBM and Cisco
Wireless campus for healthcare from IBM and Cisco can help connect doctors, nurses and other staff members to the information they need, and enable them to perform critical functions faster.
IBM and Cisco are uniquely positioned to assess, design and deliver wireless campus solutions to healthcare facilities worldwide.
IBM and Cisco have designed a wireless campus solution for healthcare that can help transform the way your practice, hospital or other care facility operates.
www-03.ibm.com /solutions/cisco/doc/content/solution/1619575134.html   (589 words)

  
 The Chronicle: Daily news: 10/09/2000 -- 01
But wireless networks have their own virtues, and colleges are building them with the expectation that the networks will enhance teaching, learning, and research.
Vanderbilt University is creating a wireless network for its medical center and main campus, and Howard University and Rockford College are also in the process of bringing wireless connectivity to their campuses.
Greenville's wireless connections reach all classrooms, residence halls, the gymnasium, the library, administrative offices, the dining hall, and even open areas on the campus quadrangle.
chronicle.com /free/2000/10/2000100901t.htm   (2810 words)

  
 WIRELESS ACCESS IN SINCLAIR & HAMILTON LIBRARIES
Wireless network connectivity is available in the Reserve Book Room (first floor) and adjacent lobby areas, the second floor Ewa lanai and stacks, and the AV Center (3rd floor) for UH System Library users.
Wireless access allows you to connect your laptop computer to a network using radio waves instead of a cable.
Initially, wireless access will be installed on the Manoa campus on McCarthy Mall from the front of Paradise Palms to the Art Building and then to Kuykendall Hall and the front of Campus Center.
libweb.hawaii.edu /uhmlib/libinfo/wireless_access.html   (560 words)

  
 Wireless Covers Campus - Knox College News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
More than 100 wireless "access points" have been installed, covering all academic and residential buildings, as well as much of the 80-acre Knox campus that occupies approximately 20 square city blocks in Galesburg.
A wireless connection is a radio link between a special card in the user's computer and an access point attached to the campus network.
Someone who is "wardriving" -- the term used to describe searching for vulnerable wireless networks -- might be able to detect Knox's wireless signal in the area around campus, but the college network is restricted to authorized users.
www.knox.edu /x7874.xml   (429 words)

  
 Walking Across Campus with your Laptop and a Wireless Connection Now a Reality with LAWN
Georgia Tech is ahead of the curve in creating a campus wireless infrastructure that will support mobile, untethered clients and research into wireless technologies for both hardware and software at multiple bit rates.
The most time consuming part of installing the wireless network is determining the best location of the radio-signal boxes which transfer the transmissions from the wireless devices to the campus network, serving as an ethernet bridge between wireless and hardware.
OIT’s long-term plans are to connect these buildings’ wireless hubs to create a wireless corridor through the center of campus so a user can maintain their wireless connection while walking between buildings.
www.gatech.edu /news-room/archive/news_releases/lawn.html   (682 words)

  
 Fall 2001: Campus wireless computing initiatives
Several colleges and universities are experimenting with the potential of developing a campus in which students, faculty, and staff are able to connect to their local area network from any location on the campus through the use of wireless technology.
Wireless Andrew (http://www.cmu.edu/computing/wireless/), one of the most fully developed wireless campus environments in the country.
Wireless access is available in all academic and administrative buildings as well as from key outdoor areas across campus.
socrates.berkeley.edu:4201 /bcc/Fall2001/cio.wireless.html   (741 words)

  
 Wireless World
As wireless technology has become a ubiquitous tool of modern life, more education administrators are recognizing the need to develop a reliable wireless campus environment.
Moreover, a reliable wireless environment is vital for a university trying to maintain a reputation for leadership in technology among prospective and current students, faculty and alumni.
Yet a campus can't rely solely on existing commercial antennas on the perimeter of the campus to ensure adequate campuswide coverage.
asumag.com /mag/university_wireless_world   (1083 words)

  
 SCC Tech Tips: 'Clean Access' Frequently Asked Questions
Wireless access is also being planned for the new Vallejo Center.
As resources permit, we may be able to make wireless access available in other parts of the campus prior to Measure G work.
Using the campus wireless network is very much like using your home Internet connection or the wireless connections at Starbucks and elsewhere.
www.solano.edu /tech_learn_resources/techtips/wireless_faq.html   (532 words)

  
 IBM - Wireless campus solution from IBM
Wireless campus communications solutions from IBM offer an innovative, holistic approach to campus communications that takes advantage of emerging technologies.
With extensive experience in wireless integration, IBM is uniquely qualified to offer colleges and universities a stable, complete solution extending across campusinside buildings as well as outside—and even into surrounding areas.
IBM wireless campus solutions are designed to help transform your campus communications for increased competitiveness and flexibility to respond to current and anticipated constituent requirements.
www-03.ibm.com /industries/wireless/doc/content/solution/983169104.html   (500 words)

  
 Wireless - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term wireless is normally used to refer to any type of electrical or electronic operation which is accomplished without the use of a "hard wired" connection.
It is interesting to note that the term "wireless" has been used throughout the history of radio to refer to the equipment that is used to transmit and receive radio signals as well as to refer to radio itself.
Today the term is most commonly used to refer to wireless communication in general, which usually, but not always, involves the transmission and reception of radio waves.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wireless   (561 words)

  
 California Lutheran University Deploys ReefEdge to Secure and Manage Its Wireless Campus
We were very pleased that the wireless LAN deployment was up and running very quickly and came in far under what we had budgeted for,says Marselian.
The wireless LAN is providing the CLU faculty with a flexible way to unplug e-learning from the wall port, introducing more-dynamic situations in which instructors and students can exploit networked content quickly and collaboratively.
We are delighted to help California Lutheran University develop a world-class wireless campus that supports mobility, security for student and faculty information, and easy management for network administrators,said Ajei Gopal, CEO of ReefEdge.
www.wirelessdevnet.com /news/2003/56/news3.html   (870 words)

  
 Wireless Campus
The HFCC wireless network, nicknamed 'HFCC Unplugged,' is available in the Eshleman Library, ASCC, Health Careers, Liberal Arts, Mackenzie Fine Arts Center, Science, Learning Technology Center, the Student & Culinary Arts Center and the Technology Building on the main campus in Dearborn from 6 a.m.
The wireless network gives students the freedom to have access to Internet-based resources at their convenience from their laptops and PDAs.
The wireless network gives students the ability to take their technology (and homework assignments!) with them wherever they go.
www.hfcc.edu /about_us/wireless_campus.asp   (252 words)

  
 Colorado College | Wireless Campus Network
Celeste and the advisors felt an initiative that makes CC a wireless campus is a high priority.
All wireless access points will be Cisco 1200, with 128 bit encryption enabled, and mandatory LEAP (Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol) authentication against the central campus user directory.
Wireless Network Interface Cards (NICs) may not be configured to serve as an access point.
www.coloradocollege.edu /its/wireless   (323 words)

  
 Wireless Campus Network
Public areas of campus, such as Perry Cafeteria, Colvard Union, the Drill Field, and Mitchell Memorial Library, were the initial focus of the project, but the wireless network is being expanded as rapidly as funding allows.
A wireless connection, though, is typically at least 30 times faster than a dial-up modem connection and, thus, easily adequate for applications such as email and text-based web surfing.
Studies have shown that wireless networks can be significantly more vulnerable than wired networks and require extra technical safeguards to make them less susceptible to hacking, eavesdropping and security threats.
www.its.msstate.edu /Services/WirelessNetwork/index.php   (538 words)

  
 Teaching wireless 101: American University lights up a wireless campus Telecommunications Americas - Find Articles
The university based this on industry research that forecasted that by 2005, 70 percent to 85 percent of college students would be wirelessly enabled for voice alone.
As one could imagine, there were some fundamental drivers to build this wireless network, including just improving basic cell phone coverage in the university's residence halls, where there were coverage gaps.
And because the system allows the wireless LAN network to use the same cabling and antennas as the original installation, AU does not have to use additional horizontal cabling to increase WLAN coverage capacity.
findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0NUH/is_12_38/ai_n8585573   (979 words)

  
 The Chronicle: Daily news: 06/12/2000 -- 01
Drexel says that it will be the first to establish a fully wireless campus, but it has competition.
The wireless connections will be about 200 times as fast as a typical modem, although not as fast as an Ethernet connection through a jack in the wall.
Wireless connections can also slow down when several people are sharing one access point.
chronicle.com /free/2000/06/2000061201t.htm   (800 words)

  
 Tilburg University - Wireless LAN network
With the wireless facility the university wants to offer the students maximum flexibility on the campus.
The wireless option is a practical addition to existing facilities for students, such as the student desktop and the internet c@fes.
The other buildings have wireless zones in all public areas and in the lecture rooms.
www.tilburguniversity.nl /services/its/it-facilities-campus/wireless   (393 words)

  
 Wired 10.10: Unplugged U.
Each homecoming night since 1920, members of the freshman class have built a towering bonfire at the center of the green, running a lap around the pyre for every year of their graduating class (the class of 1999 did 99 laps; not to be outdone, the class of 2000 did 100).
In spite of its remoteness, the college has long been one of the most wired places on earth, fashioning its campus into the prototype of the fully wireless, always-connected community: a microcosm that provides a peek at what our residential neighborhoods and office spaces may look like in a few years.
As corporations move tentatively toward going airborne and consumer wireless service startups wink in and out of existence, students at many colleges are eagerly embracing life untethered, and creating an environment ripe for explosive innovation.
www.wired.com /wired/archive/10.10/dartmouth.html   (993 words)

  
 Wireless Internet Access | ITS
If you are interested in wireless coverage in your area, check the ITS Wireless Web site for current installation information, or contact the Wireless Access Team to get more information on establishing a departmental partnership for coverage.
Wireless access uses the 802.11b and 802.11g wireless protocols, making it possible to connect to the campus network using a compatible WLAN card.
The wireless network has been designed to augment but not replace the existing wired network, offering mobile connectivity and network accessibility from varied locations, such as the UMC, the Engineering Center, parts of Norlin Library, various high-tech classrooms, and many other convenient locations on campus.
www.colorado.edu /its/wireless   (354 words)

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