Power Trip
Power Trip
Not surprisingly, electrical power is a big piece of the WLAN. "No student's laptop battery can sustain a full day of classes," Hanset says. So the university runs Power over Ethernet, where both power and data run over the same Category 5 cable to the access point. "We use 100 percent Power over Ethernet injectors all over campus," Hanset says.
This lets the IT department remotely manage power: It can reboot an access point automatically, without having to physically unplug it.
Next for Proxim's WLAN is integrating voice and data. "Then," Hanset says, "users can roam between cellular and WLAN with new cell phones and reduce their cost per-minute."
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