The Globe and Mail reports on one sophisticated mobile setup:
140 laptops all with wireless cards talking to a 3Com 11 megabit-per-second Wireless Access Point 8000 and connected to the Internet via a Hughes satellite linkLadies and gentleman: The Rolling Stones!
Turns out Mick and company are quite the Wi-Fi users, the paper reports:
If there is no clear line of site to the satellite, the backup is to do a DSL drop to the concert hall, and connect it to the 3Com access point.Back to CompendiumAccording to Mr. Griffith, the quantity of data handled by the system when it's up and running is equivalent to a small to medium-sized office, with between 25 and 100 computers doing e-mail and word processing document exchanges, as well as transfers of some larger files such as CAD drawings of the stage set or the concert seating plan that take up more bandwidth.
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