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By their very nature, campus LANs tend to evolve in diverse geographic
areas. Often these LANs are separated by distances too great to simply
connected. Unfortunately school or education units usually have modest
budget, therefore, to link these wired LANs would cost not only
considerable money, but also quite long construction time due to aging
buildings. This is a common problem most school or education institution
have to deal with. The National Experimental High School of the Science Based Industrial Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan is no exception. After
lengthy evaluation, it decided to adopt the state-of-the-art wireless LAN
technology.
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By using
wireless products, the National Experimental High School is now able to provide their
students instant access to the school's network and the Internet anytime,
anywhere within the campus.
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A campus could be a government installation, a college, a hospital, a local
government, a utility company or even the tenants in a big city high-rise
building. The following are several possible applications for campus
environments:
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Example
A:
Inter-building Wireless LAN
By simply set up a XI-1450 Access Point and Omni-antenna (or
Directional antenna for longer transmission distance) on the rooftop of
each building. The result is a simple, quick, and inexpensive way of
connecting all buildings on the campus, i.e. linking all separate and
remote LANs in the campus into a single LAN. The XI-1450 Access Point is connected to a
hub, which usually located inside the building next to a server. For
further details please refer to our Inter-Building Application Notes.
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Example
B: Roaming
between laboratories and classrooms
Configuring the PC Cards and Access points with the same
ESSID and at the same radio channel, students and faculty members can
take their laptop computers moving freely from classroom to classroom, from
classroom to laboratories, and vice verse, and remain being connected
seamlessly to the school network.
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Example
C: Data
sharing in the classroom (Ad-Hoc)
Simply connecting XI-300B Wireless LAN Station Adapter to
the existing NIC card of the PC via RJ-45 connector, the teachers can
easily turn their computer into a wireless station. The students can then
access the material or information stored in the teacher's computer by
plugging-in a PC Cards into their notebook computers. Similarly, the
students can also transmit or share information with each other.
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