My Erickson

My Erickson is a resident portal. It is provided by Erickson Corporate and is managed by Charlestown staff, mainly Community Resources. See Portal.

Network

A network consists of two or more computers that are linked in order to share resources (such as printers and CDs), exchange files, or allow electronic communications. The computers on a network may be linked through cables, telephone lines, radio waves, satellites, or infrared light beams. See also Enterprise Network, Wireless Local Area Network.

Optical Network Terminal Box (ONT)

The ONT is the box in the wall outside resident apartments. Each CharlestownTellabs Optical network terminal box (ONT) provisions two telephone circuits and four 10/100/1000GB Internet ports with POE+ (Power over Ethernet) that can power a wireless access point. The current ONT is the Tellabs 142R.

Portal

Portal is a term, generally synonymous with “gateway,” for a World Wide Web site that is or proposes to be a major starting site for users when they get connected to the Web or that users tend to visit as an anchor site. At Charlestown, a separate network (CCI-Portal) is used for “headless” devices without […]

Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)

An uninterruptible power supply or uninterruptible power source (UPSAn uninterruptible power supply or uninterruptible power source (UPS) is an electrical apparatus that provides emergency power to a load when the input power source fails. It is supposed to kick in when there is a power outage. A UPS is typically used to protect hardware such […]

Upload

To transfer a file from your computer system to another system. Less precisely, it may also refer to a direct transfer from your local terminal to a server over a local area network or an FTP transfer from your system to a remote system. See Download.

Virtual local area network (VLAN)

Charlestown has set up virtual local area networks to improve access to resident printers. Printers are subdivided into VLANS by building.

Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi is a family of wireless network protocols based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for wireless networking and allow nearby devices to exchange data by radio waves. Wireless local area networks (WLAN) are widely used in the world to link laptop computers, tablet computers, smartphones, smart televisions (smart TVs), […]

Wireless Internet Services Providers (WISP)

A wireless Internet service provider (WISPA wireless Internet service provider (WISP) is an Internet service provider (ISP) that allows subscribers to connect to a server at designated hot spots (access points) using a wireless connection such as Wi-Fi. Companies include AT&T Internet, Verizon Internet, Xfinity Internet (Comcast), Cox I… READ MORE) is an Internet service […]

Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN)

WLAN is a wide area network — a form of a telecommunication network that can connect devices from multiple locations and across the globe. Wide Area Networks (WANs) are the largest and most expansive forms of computer networks available to date.

Wireless survey in apartment

A wireless survey is done by IT staff to determine the best location in an apartment for the wireless access point. (Erickson used Red River for this Survey at Charlestown)