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Purdue AirLink (PAL)

Title:Purdue AirLink (PAL) (ID: EPS189)
Author(s):David Seidl (University of Notre Dame)
Topics:Authentication, Security Architecture, Wireless Security
Origin:Community Contributions (2004)
Type:Effective Practices
Abstract:

Purdue AirLink (PAL) is a campus-wide, secure, authenticated wireless access system. It allows laptops, desktops, and PDAs to connect to the Purdue network, making any area that is PAL accessible a part of the Purdue network. PAL supports Cisco native clients and MS-CHAP v2, meaning that almost any computer system can connect. Today, users are able to log in using their Purdue career account and use campus services as well as Internet access from over 90 percent of the public areas on campus.

The PAL system was designed to allow secure, authenticated, campus-wide wireless access. The system had to be relatively operating-system agnostic and had to provide a reasonably user-friendly method of access. In addition, it had to use standard protocols and hardware.

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