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2. Literature Review Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) are being adopted in larger number by campuses. Users could benefit from easier access and information technology (IT) departments could benefit from the reduction of physical cabling requirements. The WLANs make today’s campuses more flexible by providing new features of mobility and expanding areas of support. WLANs have been reported and/or discussed in the information technology industry in journals, books, reports and news. This chapter reviews the literature on the provision of WLANs in the education sector. 2.1 Literature In 1995, “UC Santa Cruz first to pilot wide-area wireless” (1995) reported that the University of California in Santa Cruz California had become the first university to provide a wireless network to students and faculty. The coverage of the wireless network was campus-wide and included cafeteria and parking lot, etc. Even today, many universities are not able to provide a wireless network on campus or to provide it with such wide coverage. Many universities just provide wireless networks in buildings, such as at UNITEC New Zealand. The AirBears Project is an example of a project that defined the proliferation of WLANs in the education industry. AirBears: the WLAN Project, which was begun in the autumn of 2001, “enables one to connect to the campus network using a laptop equipped with a wireless Ethernet card. The service is based on the IEEE standard 802.11b wireless LAN technology, which supports speeds of up to 11 Mbps” (AirBears, 2006). The AirBears project mainly aimed to accomplish more technical goals such as “identify 3
ways to minimize maintenance and installation problems and maintain reasonable security for the campus and privacy for the users” (AirBears, 2006). The WLAN service provided by AirBears is free of charge but users may have needed to purchase a wireless network card. The AirBears project’s website listed technical issues such as authentication, encryption and roaming; policy issues such as interference with other wireless equipment and user privacy and also have mentioned health and safety issues (AirBears, 2006). There have been many projects similar to the AirBears in recent years. Many mobile network equipment vendors such as Cisco and HP are providing on-campus wireless technology to educational institutes. “Norway's largest telecommunications provider is to deploy Europe's largest wireless local area network (LAN) campus, using Cisco's Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data (AVVID) technology platform” (Cisco News, 2002). This project is aimed to serve over 7,700 employees from 40 offices in the WLAN campus and to reduce operational expenses for the company. Sharp (2001) reported that Minnesota State University (MSU) provides wireless services on MSU campuses. It was initiated by the Student Technology Committee of MSU in the spring of 1999. Information Technology Services (ITS) staff advised and encouraged the student technology committee to establish a process model. This process model was intended it “would lead into the wireless technology age” (Sharp, 2001). They planned to cover the core campus in three years. There were seven steps in the process model and the project would be developed by both the networking staff and the student technology committee (Sharp, 2001). According to Sharp (2001), Lucent WaveLan access points were selected but in order to save costs Apple AirPorts were also installed. By testing, 4
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