Staff atFarnham Castle Conference
Centrein Surrey have overcome challenges at
the 900-year-old site by implementing a self-regulating wireless
network for visitors.
The challenge was providing a local area network with
reliable connectivity despite stone walls of up to three metres
thick in places, and at the same time using as few wireless access
points as possible to meet strict English Heritage guidelines, said
Matthew MacLachlan, IT support manager at Farnham Castle.
The Aruba system secures traffic between the access points and
the core switch and between laptop computers and the access points.
It includes adaptive radio management software, which automatically
adjusts the frequency and power of the access points.
"This feature is particularly good at delivering a quality
signal in what we thought would be a very difficult environment,"
said MacLachlan.