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Wireless
Intended Use
The
UCD
Information Technology Services (ITS)
department
provides wireless coverage within this framework.
Provisioning policy - the ITS department is
the sole wireless provider on the UCD campus. This policy ensures
adequate security, frequency management, and interoperability of the
wireless access points (AP). Our policy is to provision wireless to
serve two business drivers: mobility and security. Mobility creates
flexibility. Security ensures we do not compromise intellectual
property, HIPAA PHI, and other sensitive university data.
Intended use
- wireless is intended as an augmentation of the wired network.
The ITS department sees a fit for wireless devices in places
too hard to wire or too hard to reach or too limited in space.
Additionally, wireless provides mobility, but at a sacrifice
of performance and reliability. Wireless is intended for
mobile users who do not run high bandwidth or mission critical
applications. Fixed, non-mobile desktops, high bandwidth
power users, and mission critical applications should be hosted
from the wired network. Outage sensitive applications
should also be run on the wired network because wireless uses
unlicensed radio frequencies (RF) that compete with microwave
ovens, cordless phones, baby monitoring systems, scientific
devices, other rogue IEEE 802.11 wireless APs, Bluetooth devices,
and many other RF emitters.
Wireless Splash Page
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