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Wednesday, September 01, 2004

Wi-Fi Wall Jacks To Enable Wireless Grid

Businesses looking to deploy a wireless LAN will soon have an alternative to climbing a ladder and installing access points on the ceiling.

The technology will lower Wi-Fi installation costs and let businesses more easily deploy a high-capacity wireless network.
“What Aruba does is allow you to put in an access point in a matter of moments,” says CraigThat will let businesses install more wireless access points, creating a “wireless grid” that will result in a network with a greater data-carrying capacity than a conventional wireless network, says Merwyn Andrade, Aruba’s chief technology officer.

Ortronics initially plans to offer two types of Wi-Jacks.
One is a device that plugs into the network port (powered by the network) and the other is a jack with the WiFi built-in
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http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=45400023

Posted on 09/01
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