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Case studyNetworks and Wi-Fi

City Colleges of Chicago

Pace Systems extended the Wi-Fi with new cabling, access points and protective housings, while students kept using the building.

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A wireless access point inside a square white protective housing on a ledge, its status light green, with the ceiling grid and lights behind.

The Challenge

The Wi-Fi network needed extending across the facility, and the work had to happen in an active school, with student traffic and the building’s daily activity going on the whole time.

That made scheduling the hard part, because every cable run and every access point had to fit around the people using the halls and the rooms.

The Solution

We installed additional data cabling, the wireless access points and protective WAP housings for them, so the new access points extend the same Wi-Fi network instead of starting a separate one.

The housings protect the access points in busy halls and rooms, and we ran the cabling behind them as well, because we run the cabling for every network and Wi-Fi system we install.

  • Data cabling
  • Wireless access points
  • Protective housings
  • Work around classes
  • A wireless access point behind the clear window of a locked enclosure set into a ceiling grid, its blue status light on.
  • A wireless access point in a white housing mounted above a timber door, its cable run in a neat raceway beside a red conduit and fabric acoustic panels.

The Result

Students, teachers and faculty get stronger, more reliable Wi-Fi across the facility, and the building stayed in use throughout.

  • Stronger Wi-Fifor students, teachers and faculty
  • Openthe building stayed in use throughout

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