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Re: "Portable" network access setups?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Osborne, Bruce W)
Wed Feb 16 07:58:42 2011
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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:56:52 -0500
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From: "Osborne, Bruce W" <bosborne@liberty.edu>
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Jeff,
We are an Aruba wireless shop. We have a couple of setups using their RAP-5WN 802.11n Remote Access Point. The AP is battery powered and uses a USB cellular modem to connect to our controllers through an IPsec tunnel.
Our particular use cans is to allow laptops to scan student ID badges at the Intramural athletic fields. The fields are not near any of our current network infrastructure.
I do not know the number of users you need to serve, so this solution may not be suitable.
Let me know offline if you need more details.
Bruce Osborne
Liberty University
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Kell [mailto:jeff-kell@utc.edu]
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 2:17 PM
Subject: "Portable" network access setups?
Not exactly a prime "ResNet" question, but perhaps some of your networking folks have run into this before...
Has anyone else had to deal with "can you provide network access at [some obscure location with no infrastructure] for [some special event]" projects? Especially recurring ones?
We have traditionally had our long ethernet jumpers and/or spool of cable/terminators/crimp tool approach with duct tape and bailing wire, but it seems like surely there is a better manufactured solution (ethernet switch / APs on a retractable
spool?) similar to the little retractable cables for laptops, just on a bigger scale.
Trying to eliminate those last-minute cable testing for the broken termination and other esoteric errors that always seem to surface in these cases.
Jeff
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