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Meru WLAN provides reliable entr e to get students on column in all subjects

IP08, Earls Court, London, UK Wednesday, 1st October 2008 - Pupils at St Bernard s Catholic High School in Rotherham, Yorkshire can entr e Internet path gear instantly from any classroom in the building, appreciation to a wireless LAN from Meru Networks.

The school wanted to provide reliable entr e for its 670 students throughout the school, so subject matter teachers can use Internet possessions in any lesson, without having to move the set into a dedicated IT suite. The wireless LAN had to be reliable, and able to support up to 64 laptops at once.

Whole course of students can entr e the set of relations at the same instance without interruption, said Paul Clark, Stratagem manager for ICT at St Bernard s. This set of relations gives more flexible entr e to our ICT facility, and strength of character allow us to get laptops into all prospectus areas.

UK based Networks by Wireless won a competitive tender, convincing St Bernard s School that wireless LAN gear from Meru Networks would succeed where other gear had failed, and provide a set of relations the school could trust.

The school has a new wired LAN, installed this year, and each classroom has a networked Notebook and an interactive whiteboard. Paul wanted to go further, and give each learner set of relations access, but was not convinced wireless LANs were up to the job.

We had tried a wireless LAN before, with a few entr e points in a small area, but we took it out a day ago, because it was unreliable, said Paul. After this experience, Paul was sceptical that any wireless LAN could meet his school s necessities We had decided to move away from wireless and get clothes cabled in.

The weight of learner entr e changed that. When a large numeral of laptops, wheeled to the classroom in a trolley, are handed to students at the instigation of a lesson, wired relations are simply impractical. So the school issued an request to set of relations companies, to tender for a reliable wireless LAN that would allow instant entr e anywhere in the school.

The champ of that tender, Meru s fourth cohort single-channel wireless LAN, avoids the irregularity and nosiness issues common place with inheritance wireless LANs. Right of entry points are placed on a single broadcasting channel, eliminating the need for costly conduit planning. Meru s coordinated entr e points ensure bandwidth is shared efficiently, all and sundry gets the best correlation possible, and the set of relations is managed centrally with its award-winning Heavens Passage Control expertise and Organization Principal software.

Our biggest doubts were that Meru s single conduit building was different to every other wireless LAN vendor, said Paul. His technicians evaluated the product, before it was set up by Networks by Wireless.

The set of relations was installed quickly by Networks by Wireless during the school s summer holiday, and was operation smoothly before the pupils returned in September. Most vendors gear requires a detailed site appraisal to site the radios and avoid interference, but with Meru s single-channel architecture, that wasn t necessary: The wireless piece just worked, says Paul. The hardest piece of the fitting was advance the set of relations with Power-over-Ethernet PoE injectors to drive the entr e points.

The set of relations is future-proof, qualification the school requests faster set of relations entr e in future, says Paul: We can upgrade to 802.11n when we need it - but 802.11abg meets our current needs.

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