General WiFi: Shipboard WiFi

"Steven C. Peterson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.wireless.seattle.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I am currently a student at one of the state maritime academy's.
we are trying to get our training vessel setup with a wireless network 
one thea would
support multiple SIP handsets and allow them to roam between AP this is
not something i have much experience in but what i would like to know from
you folks is the following.

what hardware should i use? i need 11b for the handsets

being that this is a ship all the wall are steel so we will have 
multiple AP throughout the ship
they will all need to allow roaming and for security must support wpa 
tkip. how would i go about configuring this?

a wireless link with multiple redundant connections for shore side 
operations (while in home berth)

I have decided on using the following basic con fig

shore side their will be one computer running Clark connect and asterisk 
it will have at least one AP
attached to it . it will serve as the link between the campus and the 
ships network (both for the phones
and the Internet)

on the ship i will have a computer running Clark connect and asterisk 
this machine will have at least one Orinoco gold wireless
card (for compatibility with the Clark connect wireless client software) 
and three nic (booth the wireless and one NIC will be assigned external) 
the other nic one will
service the AP's and the other will service hard line devices (computer 
lab, and wired sip phones)

on the wireless side i will need your assistance with configuration and 
hardware choice some AP may be on the outside deck fro crew members and 
cadets on deck the remainders will be indoors
from th pilot house to the engine room (IE many different levels of 
vibration and heat) preferable the i will be able to power the devices 
with a single POE injector and thus one
battery backup for the whole system the ship is 269 feet from bow to 
stern and has three outside decks for a total of five inside) you
can look up the specs on the USS persistent (when she was a navy ship) 
she is a T.A.G.O.S vessel.

any help you can render would be great.

Steven Peterson
Engine cadet
Great lakes maritime academy

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