Primary Wireless

At Intel’s Jones Farm campus, employees will use a wireless LAN as the primary access method for data, voice, and video.

When Intel employees walk through the doors of the Jones Farm campus, near Portland, Oregon, their laptops, which use Intel Centrino mobile technology, automatically detect the best available RF signal and log onto the wireless network. Employees open their laptops and are immediately connected.

With nearly 6,000 employees, the Intel Jones Farm campus is among the first in the world to adopt wireless as its primary access method, successfully addressing issues and challenges such as better performance, system management (RF coverage), increased security (RF interference and rogue detection), client roaming, and quality of service (QoS) for voice over wireless. The Intel IT group accomplished this engineering feat using some of the features that will soon be available in the Cisco Business Class Wireless Suite, which combines the Cisco Unified Wireless Network and Intel Centrino notebooks with Intel Centrino mobile technology. The company expects that when deployment is complete later this year, 75 percent of campus residents will use primary wireless exclusively.