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"A 1983 Volvo. My other 'car' is a bicycle."The University of Tennessee's WLAN has come a long way since it was first mandated by a visionary former university president.
"He called my boss and said, 'I need a wireless plan in three days,' " says Philippe Hanset, senior network engineer at the Knoxville-based university. "In 18 months, the entire university was wireless."
Wireless caught the president's attention after some earlier successful pilots in the architecture, computer science and business administration departments, and he had some available funding.
With the WLAN now an integral part of campus life, security awareness has become a hot button. In fact, the university administration, under a new president, called on IT to resecure the WLAN. Hanset and his colleagues spent more than a year analyzing wireless security gateways and decided they came with too much overhead.
"We design networks to increase bandwidth, but gateways tend to slow down traffic," Hanset says.
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