How we tested Newbury appliance

We initially configured the Newbury Location Appliance via a serial cable, then deployed it into a rack and connected it to a 100Base-TX switched fabric.

We installed a Trapeze Networks' wireless LAN consisting of six MP-372 access points (in our case acoustical tile ceiling T-Bar mounted access points) to cover the office's geography. (We'd like to thank Hetrick Communications in Indianapolis for letting us use their offices as a test bed.)

The access points weren't in a symmetrical pattern, miming the lack of relational perfection found in most installations. The Trapeze access points connected to a Trapeze MX-8 switch, which was connected to the site's 100Base-TX switched network fabric.

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We initially configured the Newbury Location Appliance via a serial cable, then deployed it into a rack and connected it to a 100Base-TX switched fabric.

We installed a Trapeze Networks' wireless LAN consisting of six MP-372 access points (in our case acoustical tile ceiling T-Bar mounted access points) to cover the office's geography. (We'd like to thank Hetrick Communications in Indianapolis for letting us use their offices as a test bed.)

The access points weren't in a symmetrical pattern, miming the lack of relational perfection found in most installations. The Trapeze access points connected to a Trapeze MX-8 switch, which was connected to the site's 100Base-TX switched network fabric.

We used an HP ZV1000 notebook running Windows XP SP2 to mark the boundaries of the office and identify the areas within the office. We then used several devices, including two Mac notebooks (PowerBook G4 and iBook G3), a Zyxel Wi-Fi VoIP phone, as test clients on the network, moving about both inside and to outside our specified boundaries. The boundary stoppage worked, and device location was rapid and direct.

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