Proxim Wireless Corporation, a provider of end-to-end broadband wireless systems, announced that the Punjab Engineering College (PEC) University of Technology in Chandigarh, India, has deployed Proxim's Wi-Fi mesh equipment to provide a secure wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) for its residential faculty areas.
The Wireless Mesh Network was required to be deployed as a part of a sponsored project from the Indian government in order to perform experiments relating to the draft 802.11s standard and hence for conducting real time experiments, testing, and validation of results.
The university has deployed Proxim's ORiNOCO AP-4000MR-LR and AP-4900MR-LR products to create a dependable and secure wireless mesh network that could provide the high-performance access needed throughout the residential areas.
The project was funded by a grant that was awarded to PEC University of Technology by the Department of Information Technology in the Ministry of Communications & IT of the Government of India.
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