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ERIC Number: EJ701634
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Mar-1
Pages: 3
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0192-592X
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Finding Waves: Techniques for a Successful Wireless Site Survey
Shanafelt, Michael
T.H.E. Journal, v31 n8 p10 Mar 2004
Wireless Local Area Networks are the most widely adopted networking technology to hit the market in the last three years. They have the potential to make network applications and the Internet available anywhere on a campus so that students and faculty are no longer tethered to their offices or shared computer laboratories in order to connect to a computer network. In early 2001, Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania, undertook a study to create a wireless network in all of its academic buildings. The Center of Excellence for Remote and Medically Under Served Areas (online at www.cermusa.org), a telemedicine and distance learning research facility located on the university's campus, collaborated with Saint Francis on the effort. The University's goal was to create a wireless network to support an upcoming laptop initiative in which all incoming freshmen would receive notebook computers. CERMUSA's objective was to gain a better understanding of wireless technology, as well as to create a best-practices recommendation for schools and universities in the techniques of deploying a campus WLAN. After a year of researching different methods of WLAN deployment, three different procedures that can be used to install a wireless network were identified. CERMUSA termed these three methods: E-Witching, Scientific Divining and Computer Modeling. In this article, these three methods are outlined.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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