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Monday, March 02, 2009

Managing the largest 802.11n deployment

University of Minnesota taps Entuity platform to manage its wired and ever-growing wireless networks
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Managing the largest 802.11n deployment

Denise Dubie By Denise Dubie
Planning to build out the largest 802.11n wireless deployment required the network team at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis-St. Paul to also have in place a management platform that could cover potentially 9,500 access points spread across 300 buildings while also keeping an eye on the wired net. Read full story

Denise Dubie is senior editor with Network World.

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