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Applications for Campus Environments |
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Today's campus environments include not just schools and universities, but also government centers, industrial facilities, factories, corporate facilities, hospitals and large retail developments. Although their businesses may be different, they all have one thing in common – distributed buildings within a geographically close range that all need to connect together for one purpose or another.
There is a variety of different technologies that campus environments can consider to deliver wireless bandwidth from one building to another. In many instances, Wi-Fi is the technology of choice because it is easy to install, inexpensive and does a great job of connecting mobile devices to the network. However, Wi-Fi does have its limitations – namely capacity, RF interference, and security.
The ClearMesh Sentry Mesh™ provides excellent value for bandwidth aggregated back to a central NOC or where applications requiring extremely high bandwidth need to reach buildings throughout the campus. Take, for example, video surveillance at a university campus.
With huge technical strides in IPVS, campuses everywhere now have the ability to stream high-resolution video feeds from all over the campus: dorms, parking lots, ATMs, classroom buildings, and so on. The limitation with wireless IPVS is the bandwidth requirement. With a high-capacity wireless mesh network from ClearMesh, campus IT can use the downstream bandwidth for Internet, VoIP, and other applications, and the underutilized upstream bandwidth for centralized video feeds.
Within shopping centers, a resilient infrared mesh network can support multiple applications that deliver value added services to help ensure tenant loyalty and raise value per square foot. By combining voice over IP (VoIP), high-bandwidth streaming video from surveillance cameras located around the mall, Wi-Fi hot-spot backhaul and mission-critical point-of-sale transaction traffic generated by the retail store owners, mall owners can install a high-capacity network without the cost and mess associated with laying fiber throughout the center.
Whether you need to support a few applications that require high amounts of bandwidth or hundreds of applications requiring minimal amounts of bandwidth, the Sentry Mesh is the only solution available today that delivers fiber-quality bandwidth without the need to trench fiber.
