WIRELESS AT UCSC

[Dave Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

WIRELESS AT UCSC
The University of California at Santa Cruz has completed a successful
nine-month pilot project to test the use of wireless technology by
professors and students.  Fifteen students were given access to a "Ricochet"
network that uses radio waves for transmitting within a limited area of the
campus.  Santa Cruz is now considering using the Ricochet technology to wire
dormitories in eight residential colleges.  Metricom, which installed the
network, supplied students with special wireless modems equipped with a
two-inch rubber antenna for transmitting signals to receivers mounted at
regular intervals around the campus.  The company is also building networks
at Stanford University, the University of Oregon, and Oregon State
University.  (Chronicle of Higher Education 7/7/95 A15)