Super Net Deploys BelAir Networks' Wi-Fi System in Louisiana State University Region

Whether over e-mail, Instant Messaging (IM) or their cell phones, today's college students are known for staying in constant contact with one another. Now, students, residents and businesses in the communities near the Louisiana State University (LSU) can do just that -- wirelessly with BelAir Networks' Wide Area Wi-Fi solution.

Super Net and V Link Solutions integrated BelAir Networks' Wide Area Wi-Fi solution to create a combined PLC and broadband Wi-Fi network for the residential and business communities adjacent to LSU. The deployment delivers high speed Internet access over two square miles of open areas and buildings around LSU including 2,200 apartment units that are currently under-served by broadband providers.

Super Net connected the BelAir Wide Area Wireless system to its PLC Internet service which delivers broadband over electrical power lines throughout the areas surrounding LSU. The entire system is managed by V Link's PASSYM back-end network provisioning and monitoring platform. PASSYM provides important user billing and authentication services, over both the Wi-Fi and the PLC segments of the network.

As a customer logs into the system, V Link’s PASSYM platform ensures that the users are authenticated against their profile in a database to maintain proper usage as well as monitor the length of time the system is used. V Link also provides 24X7 phone-in technical support to end users and network administrators.

The four BelAir200 nodes installed around the LSU region enable high speed access to the entire network at conveniently located hot zones throughout the surrounding area. Built specifically for outdoor deployment, the BelAir200 can be mounted directly on buildings, on light poles in parking lots and city streets. Each BelAir200 includes up to three backhaul radio modules that create 5 GHz point-to-point links to form the wireless backhaul mesh that interconnects all of the BelAir200 nodes. The BelAir200 access radio module supports Wi-Fi client access in the 2.4 GHz band and includes integrated antennas that project Wi-Fi signals over a large area outdoors or into multi-story buildings from the outside. The resulting system delivers unmatched capacity, security and scalability for multi-application Wi-Fi networks.

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