N.Y. state college takes the plunge, plans 11n WLAN rollout this summer

Networking Technology Update This newsletter is sponsored by Avnet IDC Whitepaper: Storage Encryption: Implementing the Linchpin of Data Security Encrypting Data in transit is a start, but encrypting data in storage is widely recognized as the next frontier in security. Find out how you can mitigate financial risk, prevent identity theft, block internal leaks and more, while keeping your vital information accessible and manageable. Networking Technology Update, 06/27/07 N.Y. state college takes the plunge, plans 11n WLAN rollout this summer By John Cox A small New York state college will be the site of the first large-scale wireless LAN based on the draft 802.11n high-throughput standard. Manage Skyrocketing Storage The data on your network is growing at a rapid pace thats only going to increase. Download Network Worlds latest Executive Guide and get the practical, real-world advice and insider information you need to best manage and meet your storage demands and industry regulations. Click here to download. Within the next two weeks, Morrisville State College will start initial testing of thin access points from Meru, plus the vendor’s existing 802.11abg devices and early models of its recently announced 11n device, the AP300. Even at this stage, the net is posing intriguing new challenges for Morrisville, Meru and IBM Global Technology Services, the systems integrator for the project. By the end of September, the college plans to have installed a campus-wide net of some 900 11n access points. The net will also include Meru’s recently announced high-end companion controller, the MC5000. Morrisville VP of Information Services Jean Boland says she expects conservatively that each AP will offer 130Mbps of throughput, shared by whatever number of clients associate to it. That compares with 20-25Mbps for 11a nets, also in the 5-GHz band, and 11g nets in the 2.4-GHz band. The actual 11n deployment hinges on the availability of Meru’s AP300, announced in April. The school’s athletes arrive back on campus Aug. 10 and Boland plans to have a wireless net ready by them. To do so, the college will deploy Meru’s existing 11abg AP as needed, replacing them with the AP300 as it becomes available in late August. In any case, by the end of September, the 1,800 students on this rural campus southwest of Syracuse, will become a living laboratory for 802.11n. For more on this story, please click here.

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