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General
Get Wired has undertaken wireless installation projects within various locations including private & public: offices, Schools,hospitals and guest houses, with the highest of standards and the best of client and premise care.
With knowledge within the installation and comissioning  of building to building wireless bridges, enterprise wireless LAN & WAN networks and laserlinks. Get wired can help bridge the gap where the use of wireless is required or unavoidable.

Wireless networks have come a long way within the last five years and know can be implemented as part of youre existing wired structured cabling network. From the use of VoIP (Voice over IP) handsets to allowing for seamless network traffic between buildings over a two miles apart, wireless has come along way from the humble wireless router.

As with all data networks wireless still require some form of network cabling to allow for network connectivity. The cabling needs to be installed to each of the wireless routers or ariels back to local data switches. On top of this the wireless network sneed to be comissioned to allow for connectivity onto the existing network. Get Wired can take care of all of these needs in one single project.

Enterprise Wireless Solution  - 2nd Generation
An enterprise 2nd generation wireless solution consists of wireless access point (AP) ariels being installed at the required positions within the building and cabled back to a main or remote communications cabinets. Within the cabinets a wireless data switch is installed and commissioned onto the existing data network, in effect making the wireless network part of the the wired network.
1st generation wireless networks suffered from being to problematic due to each access point being a seperate network entity and therefore each access point  acting like a seperate device on the network, as these access point are dumb the cannot look after themselves on the network and are acceptable to problems when other wireless networks can be detected within the local area.

2nd generation wireless networks have been designed so that the access point ariels are just that only ariels with the wireless data switch taken care of  all the network through traffic. The wireless switch can also reconfigure the network through traffic to the ariels that require more signal and network bandwidth at any given time, also the wireless switch will download automatic firmware updates and reconfigure itself when another wireless network in installed within the local area.
As the demands for signal and network bandwidth grows on the wireless network, additional ariels can be installed to cope with the extra throughput. The wireless switch will reconfigure itself to accept the new ariels without causing any downtime. At present normal output of a wireless ariel is 54 Megabits per Second shared and as the wireless network bandwidth requirements increases the ariels can be upgraded  to the latest module, in effect at least securing some futureproofing of the system.The power for the access points come from a Power over Ethernet (PoE) data switch or a injector, both installed in the main or remote communications cabinets.

Other benifits that can come from a 2nd generation wireless system is being able to have upto sixteen seperate networks from one installed wireless infrastructure being either open, hidden or password protected networks. This will allow for multiple users to share the system while being completly seperated and unable to see other networks, these systems are very poular with schools and colleges as multiple departments can have there own seperate data networks as well as have open networks for guest and orginisations that use the premise.

Building to Building Wireless Bridges
Building to building wireless bridges are normaly installed where building to building fibre optics links can not due to overhead bridging distances being to long or not being able to install underground duct way system. Point to point and point to multipoint systems are very common on large school or college campuses as well as industrial estates where the company has grown and taken over local premises. 

The data network access is achieved by installing on the side or top of buildings wireless antennas, these antennas can be fixed in place directly to the building or because of the lightweight design of some ariels can be pole mounted to acheive greater height. Different  ariels have different characteristics, allowing for different degrees of signal direction output (normaly 90, 180 or 360 degrees), as well as self powered booster ariels that can be directed at a certain point such as outside public areas for internet access.
Wireless bridges are installed on the outside of buildings that have direct line of site  with a general rule of a one-hundred and fifty metre limit. These bridges normally output network speeds of around 54 Megabits per Second between buildings but can also be installed in pairs to allow for one bridge to transmit and one bridge to recieve data on each building, this inturn allows for greater network traffic. 

The wireless antenna cable is installed back into the buildings and connected to internal access points, from the access points a category 5e cable in installed back to the main or remote communications cabinets and connected directly to the LAN data network. The power for the access points come from a Power over Ethernet (PoE) data switch or a injector, both can be installed in the main or remote communications cabinets as well as localy to the access point.
The network would normaly have security of WEP 128-Bit encryption and after configuration the wireless bridge network can be made hidden, additional security software is also avalible for an extra cost. 

Building to building bridges have a one of cost and are considerably cheaper than having lease installed, but do suffer from downtime when the power is lost or the access point fails. Companies normaly install a 2 Megabit ASDL broadband line as a back up  for the link just incase the bridge does fail.
Also on the market are high powered building to building bridges that can reach network speeds of upto 1 Gigabit per Second and reach distances of over two miles, these bridges are very expensive  but can work out cheaper than installing a 100 Megabit per Second lease line.

Laser Links
Laser links are installed where there is a clean line of sight between two buildings and the distance is not geater that one-thousand meters. Other considerations to take into account include the structure of the bulidings that the laser link needs to be fixed to, as the both heads of the link need to aligned exactly with each other any movement from the buildings will make the laser sights mis-align and stop the link from working. 
Laser links have the benefit of allowing upto 1 Gigabit network traffic across the link and very high security due to the narrow bandwidth of the laser transmitters and receivers. The power for the laser link comes from a Power over Ethernet (PoE) data switch or a injector, both installed in the main or remote communications cabinets, the link is also designed to sit on the network as a normal cable link and therefore in a lot of cases does not required any configuration and very little or no mantainance of its lifecycle.
Laser links can also be intergrated into phone systems to allow voice connectivity.