Pavestone Company - Grapevine, Texas
Requirement
Provide the company network connection to five buildings at the Grapevine, Texas
manufacturing plant. Pavestone Company has manufactured segmental concrete
products for the commercial, residential, contractor, industrial and retail
consumer, markets since 1980. Dedicated to the production of the concrete pave
stone and retaining wall units, our business principle is to be driven not only
by technology in manufacturing, but also in the development of segmental paving
and retaining wall systems. The customer sought a reliable LAN for control and
reporting for five different functions in five buildings. Two root bridges
were implemented at the headquarters building providing 108Mbs bandwidth
to the three manufacturing buildings and to the machine shop.
View from the Main Building showing the buildings that
required the wireless bridges.
For the Bridges to be reliable, a clear line of site is
required.
Solution
Pavestone had a network infrastructure in place and the recommended solution for
providing a secure, reliable Wireless LAN was an 802.11a bridge. Bandwidth
considerations suggested a dual bridge that would provide two, 54Mbps
connections. One connection or pathway dedicated each of the two
outlying buildings. A total of
six Cisco 802.11a bridges were installed providing an extremely reliable
Wireless LAN. The five Buildings were: the Main Office Building, Plant 1, Bagging
Plant, Machine Shop, and Block Plant. The new 802.11a network was to be put into place with
minimum operational impact and plant down time and replaced an unreliable
802.11b legacy network.
Main Building Installation
Two Cisco 802.11a Bridges were installed on the main
office building and
connected to the Pavestone Company network.
Plant 1
A Cisco Aironet 802.11a
Outdoor Bridge
with integrated antenna was used for a
54Mbps connection to the Pavestone network.
Bagging Plant
A Cisco Aironet 802.11a
Outdoor Bridge
with integrated antenna was used for a
54Mbps connection to the Pavestone network.
Machine Shop
A Cisco Aironet 802.11a
Outdoor Bridge
with integrated antenna was used for a
54Mbps connection to the Pavestone network.
Block Plant
A Cisco Aironet 802.11a
Outdoor Bridge
with integrated antenna was used for a
54Mbps connection to the Pavestone network.
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