Designing and Planning a Campus Wireless Local Area Network
Ji, Mengdi (2017)
Kaakkois-Suomen ammattikorkeakoulu
2017
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2017053011119
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2017053011119
Tiivistelmä
With the speedy social and economic development networks have been progressing rapidly. But the current local area network couldn’t meet users’ demands to certain extent especially on campus. The aim of the study was to get full knowledge of WLANs and the basic processes of designing a campus WLAN.
This paper introduced the theoretical part of WLANs, including advantages and limitations of WLANs, protocol standards of WLANs, components of WLANs, different topologies of WLANs and also the security of WLANs. The contents also included the basic process of planning a campus WLAN, designing a topology by using VISIO and planning APs by using HiveManager NG and Floorplanner tools, and also list hardware and the budgets with the selected components.
In the end, the thesis is good for studying the basic idea about WLAN design but not enough for the real environment. With the complexity of the wireless network, IT groups should spend more time and consider more aspects about the WLAN design process.
This paper introduced the theoretical part of WLANs, including advantages and limitations of WLANs, protocol standards of WLANs, components of WLANs, different topologies of WLANs and also the security of WLANs. The contents also included the basic process of planning a campus WLAN, designing a topology by using VISIO and planning APs by using HiveManager NG and Floorplanner tools, and also list hardware and the budgets with the selected components.
In the end, the thesis is good for studying the basic idea about WLAN design but not enough for the real environment. With the complexity of the wireless network, IT groups should spend more time and consider more aspects about the WLAN design process.