Access Point Deployment

ITS Networking Services has installed a variety of wireless access points in the last two years, including 3COM access points, Linksys wireless routers, and Cisco 1100 and 1200 Aironet units.

ITS installed several Wireless routers for an area Professional Sports team to allow members of the Press to access the public Internet while attending games. The units connected to the wired network on the "untrusted" side of the firewall to prevent access to the internal network.

Two other clients requested wireless access points to connect to their internal networks. These were installed with WEP encryption and with SSID broadcast disabled. The use of WPA was considered, but rejected when we learned that Windows XP did not ship "out of the box" with WPA support.

ITS Networking Services has just developed the capability to perform scanning for rogue 802.11b access points. We have tested this capability but have not yet been asked by a client to do this.

To discuss your networking requirements, email us at waltermorris3@yahoo.com OR call (408) 842-8630.

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