Range and performance are unaffected by inclement weather. Cisco Aironet 340 Series Client Adapter Type II PC cards communicate to the network via the access points. This enables users of portable equipment to access the network while moving freely throughout the environment. By early 2001, the district had wireless systems to the mobile facilities at 25 locations. In time, every campus will be similarly equipped.
Students use the system primarily for tapping into campus resources and the Internet.
They connect to local file servers at each school, accessing curriculum-specific applications that their teachers assign. Internet access is achieved on a T1 over a Frame Relay that connects through the district's central office. In this way, student use of the Internet is filtered. They are always connected, and we've had nothing but very positive reports from everybody who has used them. There was no down time, no learning curve, and no retraining required to move into wireless networking, he added.