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Friday, October 11, 2002
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=6771 The Brave New World of Wireless Technologies: A Primer for Educators Gerald L. Boerner Have you just received funding to install a network in one of your campus’s older buildings? Great! Now what? Why not opt for wireless? Here, Jerry Boerner offers some basic knowledge of wireless networking. How do you retrofit an older building with today’s networking infrastructure? If the building is built with thick interior walls, or with bricks, or is otherwise architecturally unique, your options to run network cabling on the surface of walls may be limited. You may also discover that you do not have easily accessed spaces above the ceilings, (e.g., no “false” ceilings) into which to install the cabling. And the installation of either copper wire or fiber cabling may require thousands of feet of cable and many hours of painstaking labor to connect. Are there any alternatives to the installation of physical wiring?...
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