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Case Studies
Lynn, Massachusetts
Background:
The City of Lynn is a coastal city in Essex County, Massachusetts, located approximately ten miles northeast of Boston. Lynn is the eleventh largest city in Massachusetts, with a population in excess of eighty thousand. In serving a community of this size, information technology plays a major role. "We have more than 250 devices connected to our network in City Hall alone, states Peter Efstratios, IT Director for the City.
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The Challenge:
After completing a major rearchitecture of the information technology environment in City Hall, the City of Lynn focused on providing connectivity with outlying departments. "We wanted to provide our remote users with equivalent functionality to what we have in City Hall, - online financial requisitioning and reporting, e-mail, Internet access . . . We originally went with DSL, but the throughput was pretty slow and then the service disappeared (along with our provider).
The Solution:
"That's when Guardian Information Technologies, Inc.'s knowledge, experience, and professional engineering services were requested." After a brief discussion we established locations and deliverables, and quickly engaged to conduct a thorough site survey to determine the viability of a wireless solution," states Bradley Warren, Chief Technology Officer for Guardian Information Technologies, Inc. "We've perfected the site survey process, pinpointing locations and distances with WAAS technology, establishing radio line of sight, calculating the fresnel zone, photographs, etc.
Over the past year or so, perceived barriers of security and performance have been overcome with knowledge and education to the point that wireless has really matured from a functionality and acceptance perspective."
The Result:
The layout for the City of Lynn's Wide Area Network follows on page two and the entire system was deployed, stress tested, and brought to a stable and steady state in a couple of weeks. "The system is incredible," Efstratios added, "we've gone from a few hundred kilobytes per second to more than three times T1 speed, our monthly charges are gone, and uptime has been one hundred percent."
The City of Lynn is a proven example, that with a well engineered architecture and deployment wireless works! Organizations considering WAN alternatives, and wireless solutions (inter / intra-building) would be well advised to contact Guardian Information Technologies, Inc. and take advantage of their knowledge and experience specific to wireless technologies, and information technologies in general.
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