Proposed Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) at IIT

Wireless Standards:

1.     802.11a Ð 54 MBit/sec in 5 GHz frequency band

2.     802.11b Ð 11 MBit/sec in 2.4 GHZ frequency band (oldest, slowest and most popular)

3.     802.11g Ð 54 MBit/sec in 2.4 GHz frequency band (will be ratified by summer 2003 by IEEE Ð g is backward compatible with b)

Setup (Cisco)

1.     Site Survey

2.           Access Point

3.           Power over Ethernet: powers the access point over Cat 5 Ethernet cable

4.           Switches with inline power capability

5.           Antennas

Existing WLAN sites

1.     Downtown Campus

2.     Keating Hall

3.     Crown Hall (8 APs)

4.     Galvin Library

Future WLAN sites

1.     Graduate Apartments

2.     Machinery Hall - Independent project

3.     McCormick Student Centre *

4.     New Dorms *

5.     Hermann Union Building (HUB)

6.     Stuart Building

7.     Perlstein Hall

8.     Engineering 1

Figures

1.     Cat 6500 48 10/100MB Inline Power - $6,596.70

2.     CISCO 1200 Series AP - $649.35

3.     2.2dbi Dipole Antenna - $12.35