[939] in resnet
Re: Third Party Wireless Access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Peters)
Tue Mar 5 02:47:20 2002
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Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 08:45:17 +0100
Reply-To: peter.peters@civ.utwente.nl
From: Peter Peters <P.G.M.Peters@civ.utwente.nl>
To: RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020304174503.00afb7f0@po.muohio.edu>
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002 17:58:18 -0500, you wrote:
>I am a new addition to this listserv and have been looking through the
>archives involving wireless network access.
It is something new. For us also.
>My question is: Is anyone out there looking at a third party wireless
>provider? We would be very interested in hearing any experiences you have
>had with your third party vendors as well as how you support it. We are
>entertaining an offer from Broadwing corp. (Cincinnati Bell) to provide
>limited wireless access for areas around town. (take away Miami University
>and Oxford, Ohio just isn't that big)
We are planning to implement wireless everywere on campus. We will not
use any outside corporation except to supply us with the eaquipment. The
infrastructure and the systems will be ours.
>Simultaneously we are developing a support model for wireless on campus. We
>are at the very early stages for both of these. We have wireless in the
>libraries and a few other buildings already, but it has been the
>responsibility of the departments who are hosting the base stations to
>provide the support so far.
The original plans were to expand the network to a nearby (othe side of
the road) business & science park (BSP) but that is put on a hold. We
think we will be providing possibilities for non-affiliated persons to
use the network. We have no idea yet how to do this. A few ISP's are
located on the BSP. They support Internet access for companies in our
buildings. Those companies aren't allowed to use the nationwide network
which connects all universities and the like to Internet. So we offer
local-loop kind of services to connect them to there ISP of choice.
We think we will do something like that for wireless also. But with
wireless we think it will be a more ad-hoc use. So something with
credit-card payments will be neccessary.
--
Peter Peters
senior netwerkbeheerder, Centrum voor Informatievoorziening,
Universiteit Twente, Postbus 217, 7500 AE Enschede
telefoon: +31 53 489 2301, fax:+31 53 489 2383, http://www.utwente.nl/civ
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