Fast Wifi at Altadena Library (Photo – altadenalibrary.org, Coloradoblvd.net Graphic Dept).
Altadena Library has been hinting about it for six months, and it is finally going to happen.
By Christopher Kellermeyer
The wifi system will be upgraded.
At the end of November the installation began, and is expected to be completed by December 9th.
So what? Wifi already exists in Altadena Library District.
Yes, but the wifi system going into place is going to be powerful enough to support their entire infrastructure if they chose to run it off of the wifi, and the public would still have high speed access to spare. However, only a micro fraction of the infrastructure will actually run off of the wifi – the wifi will actually be 99% public usage.
The wifi access points going into place are the Meraki MR32 access points; these are the Lamborghini Veneno of wifi access points. The current wifi system only has 3 access points that are, comparatively, 1984 Yugo’s. There will be 13 of the new wifi access points at the Main Library, and two at the Bob Lucas Branch Library.
Merry Christmas Altadena!
Christopher Kellermeyer is the IT Manager at The Altadena Libraries. This article first appeared on Altadena Libraries’ CONNECT Newsletter.
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