Facilities

State-Of-The-Art Wireless Test Facility

Fully-Bidirectional ACE400WB 4x4 MIMO Wireless Channel Emulator, provided by Azimuth Systems Four separate RF enclosures for Device-Under-Test (DUT) isolation Vector Signal Analyzer for recording and analysis of wireless signals Software Radio Infrastructure for test signal generation

Wireless Testbed Locations

Crete, NE: 3.5 mile railroad test track facility for wireless technology testing Ashland, NE: High-Speed Long-Range MIMO WiMAX test bed; range of over 11 miles Logan, IA: Low-Speed SISO WiMAX test bed; range of over 5 miles

Internet Connectivity

• Fully Gigabit-capable laboratory network infrastructure
• Equipped with access to both the Internet as well as the Internet2
• In-Lab Wireless research environment fully equipped for 802.11a/b/g/n, WiMAX, WSN, etc.
• In-House Wireless production environment for 802.11a/b/g/n

Networking Infrastructure

• Force10 - Gigabit central switch
• Cisco 6509 backup environment
• ADC Power-Over-Ethernet midspan unit
• Cisco 7200 router
• numerous desktop/subsystem switches

Other Facilities and Capabilities

Comprehensive Software Defined Radio design center Cluster-based Network simulation infrastructure Covert Channel test and evaluation infrastructure PCB Hardware design and manufacturing facility Link Emulation test bed VoIP Test bed and production environment AccessGrid cluster SCOLA archiving farm SCOLA broadcasting farm