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Orinoco
Outdoor Wireless LAN
The Need
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One
of major impacts on project success is the quality, quantity,
and timing of information exchange during project execution at
the jobsite. Paper-based jobsite construction process are
becoming obsolete because they are unable to deliver
just-in-time information. It is believed that shifting to
electronic, or wireless, exchange of information can help
improve the timely delivering and accessing of information.
Wireless communication allows mobile communications to be
located at various places within a construction site and
communicate with each other as well as with a central, fixed
location such as the jobsite trailer. Wireless LAN is one of
the wireless data communication technologies that can be used
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The Technology
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The Lucent
Technologies Orinoco Outdoor Wireless Solution is one
comprehensive high speed data networking system for creating a
point-to-multipoint and point-to-point connectivity operating
in the 2.4 GHz band. Orinoco provides a high speed 11 Mb/s
data networking system with ranges up to 10 miles.
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ORINOCO Outdoor Router
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The
Orinoco Outdoor system consists of :
- ORINOCO Central Outdoor
Router (COR). The
COR is the central router in a multipoint network. The
unit is located in the central building of a network and
connects up to 16 Remote Office Router or 32 ORINOCO Fixed
Wireless PC Cards running Internet Client software.
- ORINOCO Remote Outdoor
Router (ROR). The
ROR unit to be used as the remote router. The unit is
located in the boundary of a network. A ROR connects to
one other unit. This can be either another ROR for a
point-to-point connection or a COR for a
point-to-multipoint connection.
- ORINOCO Internet Client
Software. The Internet Client Software runs on a
ORINOCO Fixed Wireless PC Card, which is located in a
desktop or portable computer. The software enables the PC
Card to be used as a remote station in a multipoint
network, connecting to the Central Office Router. A
Central Office Router can connect up to 32 WaveACCESS PC
Cards, running Internet Client Software.
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The Benefits
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ORINOCO Outdoor
Solutions offer the following benefits:
- 11 Mb/s data rate - High
Speed connections between buildings.
- Sensitive radio technology -
Ranges up to 10 miles @ 11 Mb/s
- License Free - No more
monthly payments to service providers.
- Quick and Easy Deployment,
Installation and Operation - Low Cost Deployment
- Encryption - Secure access
for customers
- Bandwidth management -
Enables network managers to fully control their wireless
networks.
- Sectored System - Enables to
set up scalable networks SNMP management Enables network
manager to centrally manage the Outdoor Routers
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Status
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Other than Outdoor
Solution, there are three other product lines presented in the
ORINOCO solution:
- Enterprise Solutions
(formerly: WaveLAN) provide reliable, secure high-speed
network connectivity in business environments.
- Public Access Solutions
offer high-speed Internet access at Airports, convention
centers, university campuses and other public areas.
- Home/SOHO Solutions
provide high-speed wireless Internet access for the home
and small offices.
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Barriers
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A
primary difficulty with maintaining reliable wireless LAN
performance is the potential inference from other users in the
band. The inference can occur from other users in the same
network or from other users from different wireless LAN system
that uses the same frequency and is co-located in the same
region. Another source of inferences is from non-wireless LAN
devices operating in the frequency band. |
Points of Contact
- Brian Becker, Lucent
Technologies Central Region, 2027 Cheswick Lane, Aurora, IL
60504, Phone: (800) WAVELAN, Fax: (630) 851-4263, E-mail: brianbecker@lucent.com
References
- Orinoco Home Page,
http://www.orinoco.org/
- Wireless
Communication and Computing Research Team, Wireless
Communication and Computing at the Construction Jobsite, CII, RS
136-1, May 1997
Disclaimer Statement
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Neither the Construction
Industry Institute nor Purdue University in any way endorses this
technology or represents
that the information presented can be relied upon without further investigation. |
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