The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) is upgrading its wireless broadband network in order to support thousands of researchers using mobile devices while moving around its campus buildings.
There are more than 12,000 staff, visiting researchers and contract workers onsite at CERN’s physics laboratory in Geneva each day, supporting projects such as the Large Hadron Collider. Around 20,000 mobile devices are used, requiring reliable wifi connectivity.
Having experienced problems with its independent wireless access points in the past, CERN decided to upgrade its network in 2015. “[The aim is to] enable seamless roaming in buildings across the campus and to get people in offices to give up their wired connections and be happy with wifi,” says Dr. Tony Cass, who leads CERN’s Communications Systems Group Information Technology Department.
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