RadioLAN and NAS help the City of Walnut Creek set up a reliable wireless inter-building network.

Gary Lech, manager of the Information Systems Division for the city of Walnut Creek, California, had NAS Wireless install a RadioLAN network to connect several city buildings. Jim Bradfield, Sr.,  President of NAS reported the results of the project:

"Gary continues to be amazed," Bradfield said. "The product has worked without failure to the point where he's added several more links." NAS has installed wireless links at  Walnut Creek's Recreation Center and Swim Complex - two buildings separated by a parking lot and a lawn - and other admin buildings within the City.

Today, the RadioLAN wireless network enables Walnut Creek to provide its users with inter-building e-mail as well as access to internal enterprise applications such as the city's financial and theater-ticketing operations. "And users prefer it to the 56-Kbps line they used to have for access to the Internet and Web publishing servers", Lech said. "RadioLAN is faster and we're no longer dependent on leased lines."

"RadioLAN's small antenna, placed atop the connected buildings, has tremendous appeal," Lech said, "You literally cannot find the antennas we've put up unless you know exactly were to look."

Also, according to Lech, other wireless solutions he looked at were priced much more costly than that of NAS, and had larger, more obtrusive antennas. Lech added, "RadioLAN not only costs less to implement than a T-1 line - because you don't need a router at each end. It involves one-time fixed costs only, eliminating the recurring charges associated with leased lines."

So what can consumers conclude from this "case-study" of RadioLAN networks from NAS? Just as Jim Bradfield had expected, "The cost versus performance of the RadioLAN system is unequaled."