Harris Partners with Singapore University
PRISM WLAN technology is now in use at NgeeAnn Polytechnic, with the recent test setup of a WLAN system that connects to its existing wired campus network. This involves the use of PRISM-based WLAN PCMCIA cards and access points at selected test sites such as the library and the courtyard cafeteria area. The wireless network lets students and faculty wirelessly access the Internet and campus network from laptops fitted with PRISM-based adapter cards and access points.
NgeeAnn Polytechnic is one of several institutions to adopt Harris' PRISM-based WLAN technology in the last year. The University of Florida (UF) and the University of Central Florida's (UCF) campuses have also established WLAN networks over the past year using Harris' PRISM technology.
UCF equipped its College of Engineering building with a PRISM-based wireless networking system in August of 1998. The system enables students and faculty to wirelessly connect to the UCF campus network from any location in the building; plus their notebook computer (or other portable device) can move with them throughout the building and still maintain the connection.
UF also equipped its computer engineering building with Harris' PRISM technology. Like UCF, the wireless network enables faculty and students with PRISM-enabled laptops to access UF's network and the Internet from anywhere on the building's first two floors. Both UCF and UF's systems include PC cards and access points that feature Harris' PRISM, enabling the wireless connection between the laptops and the networks.