The new system, which was installed during construction by
Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri, was designed by Carnival’s in-house network
engineers and San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco Systems Inc. The capability to
provide highly secure Wi-Fi access throughout Carnival Valor was accomplished
with Cisco Aironet 1230G Series IEEE 802.11b/g Access Points (AP) compliant with
the 802.11g 54 mb/s standard. For the ship-wide Wi-Fi Hotspots, Cisco Catalyst®
6509 Series Switches provide switching capability at the core while
Catalyst® 3750 Series Switch with Power over Ethernet connect the Cisco Aironet
APs to the network. |