<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Mark</div><div><br></div><div>We provide wireless access in our clean room for use of laptops, iPads, smart phones, and similar devices. My guess is that if you don't provide wireless, you'll have a collection of self-installed wireless access points … which will probably cause you more headaches than an "official" installation. </div><div><br></div><div>Clean rooms often provide a challenge in terms of getting good wireless coverage given all of the steel that tends to block good coverage. Note, we also have a collection of wireless sensors that are monitoring a variety of facility utilities. </div><div><br></div><div>To my knowledge, we've never seen problems with wireless signals interfering with equipment. Things like RF supplies and "bang-bang" heater circuits seem to offer greater potential for interference … often by inducing noise on AC lines. </div><div><br></div><div>I would suggest that you add wireless to the list of utilities in you clean room. <br><br>John<div><br></div><div>Sent from my iPhone</div></div><div><br>On Jul 25, 2012, at 5:05 PM, "Mark Heiden" <<a href="mailto:mheiden@engr.ucr.edu">mheiden@engr.ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues, Have any of you implemented wireless networks inside your cleanrooms? <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">We are constructing a new facility and I was asked if I wanted wireless installed and my first reaction was why? The clean-bays will already be full of hard line network ports. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">If you are using a wireless network what are you using it for and are there any potential equipment interference issues?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Mark Heiden <br>UC Riverside <br>Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering <br>NanoFab Cleanroom Manager <br>(951) 827-2551 <br><a href="mailto:mheiden@engr.ucr.edu">mheiden@engr.ucr.edu</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>labnetwork mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:labnetwork@mtl.mit.edu">labnetwork@mtl.mit.edu</a></span><br><span><a href="https://www-mtl.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/labnetwork">https://www-mtl.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/labnetwork</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>