Information Technology Services: Wireless Network

Information Technology Services (ITS) recognizes the need to offer students, faculty, and staff the flexibility to access information that a wireless infrastructure would grant, as well as maintaining competitiveness in this area of technology among our peer institutions. Using new enterprise-grade appliances, we are both enhancing existing wireless connectivity as well as expanding this network across campus.

The Simon's Rock Wireless Network is:

• An extension of the wired network.
  
  
• Now a secure network; you must authenticate to this network using the IEEE 802.1X EAP-TTLS protocol first, in order to gain full access to services (i.e. Internet). Upon connecting to and authenticating to the secured portion of the wireless network, over-the-air traffic will be encrypted between your device and the remaining wired network.
  
  
• A short-range network. You must be within a defined area where the radio signal is available; if you move out of this area, the signal will degrade and become too weak and you will be disconnected.
  
  
• A shared medium that offers great flexibility, but not greater speeds than wired networks.
  
  
• Compatible with IEEE 802.11b/g devices which support IEEE 802.1X (and EAP-TTLS) in all locations.