Air Broadband Wins a Major University Campus-Wide Wireless LAN Deployment.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 14, 2004 One of Korea's Largest Universities Outfits its Campus with Airobatics(TM) Switches to Manage Its Wireless Packets, Access Points, and Users Air Broadband Communications, Inc. announced today that one of the largest universities in Korea has selected Air Broadband as their wireless LAN A local area network that transmits over the air typically in the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz unlicensed frequency band. It does not require line of sight between sender and receiver. Wireless base stations (access points) are wired to an Ethernet network and transmit a radio frequency over an area platform across its Seoul campus. The university is South Korea's largest private institution and among the top-ranked universities in the nation supported by continuously evolving advanced technologies such as wireless LAN. By providing students and faculty with a WLAN See wireless LAN. WLAN - wireless local area network access anywhere in the campus for the delivery of voice, data, and streaming video A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater. applications, it is transforming the educational experience to a new level where information is freely available to all, anytime, anywhere. "It's all about security, management and mobility, and our Airobatics is the only solution that can perform such critical tasks across a wide geographical area," said Scott Lee, Marketing Director of Air Broadband Korea. The same university has deployed four Airobatics switches as part of a pilot program last year. The new deployment of the Air Broadband solution will begin in July 2004, with the installation of 37 Airobatics WLAN switches and 450 Access Points (APs) consisting of vendors such as Samsung, Foundry and others. About Air Broadband Communications Air Broadband Communications, Inc. is an innovative company in the wireless networking See wireless network. sector offering a comprehensive line of wireless switches and management systems for enterprise and public WLAN networks. Air Broadband offers cutting-edge wireless switches that enable true mobility with bulletproof Refers to extremely stable hardware and/or software that cannot be brought down no matter what unusual conditions arise. See industrial strength. bulletproof - Used of an algorithm or implementation considered extremely robust; lossage-resistant; capable of correctly security for voice, streaming video and data applications, as well as the wireless network management system needed for group or individual control and monitoring of all major third party APs. For more information, visit the Air Broadband web site at www.airBB.com. Airobatics(TM) and Soft Roaming The ability to use a communications device such as a cellphone or PDA and be able to move from one cell or access point to another without losing the connection. (TM) are registered trademarks of Air Broadband Communications, Inc. |
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