DREXEL UNIVERSITY PLANS WIRELESS CAMPUS
Drexel University President Constantine Papadakis on Saturday
unveiled a plan to establish a completely wireless campus by
September. Since 1983 the Philadelphia institution has required
that each student have a PC. Papadakis insisted that wires would
only limit comprehensive access, and in fact, some of the campus
started going wireless two years ago. Students would use
privacy-encrypted wireless adapter cards costing $175 with
their laptops, transmitting radio signals to small antennas
located around the 46-acre campus. University vice president for
information resources and technology John A. Bielec says that
with the new network "you can be watching a soccer game standing
on the sidelines and be connected to the Internet."
(Associated Press, 11 June 2000)
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