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Case Studies
Nantucket, Massachusetts
Background:
In contrast, the Town of Nantucket (designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966) is situated on an island thirty miles out to sea, south of Cape Cod. Like all municipalities, the Town of Nantucket completed the network infrastructure for the Town Complex Network and began building a Wide Area Network.
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The Challenge:
"We had two remote network connections when we started looking at wireless," said Jennifer Erichsen, IS Coordinator. "Our frame relay connections were running about fifteen hundred dollars (for the two remote sites and the Town Hall) a month, and the 56K connections did not have enough bandwidth to run our GUI products," Erichsen added.
The Solution:
Guardian Information Technologies, Inc. engineered and deployed a wireless WAN solution with the town that maintained the aesthetics of the buildings while providing the desired bandwidth.
The Result:
"We'll recover the costs for our two remote sites within a year, and going from 56K frame to several megabits per second is great. Guardian's installation, remote monitoring, and management of the solution made the WAN project seem so simple. Guardian just got it done . . .," Erichsen commented. Wireless technology is cost effective, secure, and provides more bandwidth than conventional solutions.
The Town of Nantucket 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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