IT Trends :: Thursday, November 9, 2006

Deals, Contracts, Awards

Aruba Networks Installs World's Largest Wireless LAN at Ohio State University

Four-hundred buildings on 1,700 acres, with 77,000 faculty and staff is going to need, oh, about 3,000 Access Points for minimal coverage, maybe 10,000 for optimal coverage. Throw in 40 mobility controllers distributed across three core router points of presence. Ohio State University is now in the first year of a five-year project to deploy the Aruba wireless network…

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Novell's Linux Will Talk to Windows

Listen to this NPR report on how two intense business rivals have somehow struck an agreement to let Microsoft Windows and Novell’s Linux work together. The two companies have also announced an agreement to provide each other’s customers with patent coverage for their respective products. These agreements will be in place until at least 2012…

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