eWeek: Installing a campus-wide wireless network at Gallaudet

In the November 8 issue of _eWeek_, a weekly magazine focused on enterprise IT published by tech industry media giant Ziff-Davis, an article written by Carmen Nobel features Gallaudet University. “Graduating to wireless” devotes a page and half to a discussion of Gallaudet’s shift from unofficial wireless access points across campus to a campus-wide managed wireless network offering WiFi access to “students, faculty and guests as they [travel] among the [32 buildings on campus]” in the fall of 2003. The article describes Gallaudet’s choice of WLAN vendor, Airespace, and the challenges in choosing a vendor, the campus-wide deployment, and dealing with various other setup issues. The article ends by implying that instead of VoIP (voice over IP) deployment over wireless, Gallaudet may end up doing video over their wireless network in the future.

(The online article, unfortunately, does not have the same illustration that the print article does, showing a shot of Gallaudet’s Chapel Hall with the caption, “The airwaves over Gallaudet’s Chapel Hall and entire campus are busy with wireless data.”)

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