Web surfing pandas go wireless
Wireless Lan helps in care and preservation of endangered giant pandas
Tech-savvy giant pandas can now pick up their email or browse the web to find a perfect panda partner thanks to the deployment of a campus-wide broadband and wireless network in China's Wolong Nature Reserve. Wolong Nature Reserve is one of the last protected homes for the world's giant pandas. Located in the lush mountains of the Sichuan Province in south west China, the reserve cares for nearly 20 per cent of the world's remaining 1,500 giant pandas while conducting daily research on panda breeding and bamboo ecology. The 802.11 b wireless local area network has been rolled out by Intel to aid researchers in their study, care and preservation of endangered giant pandas. It covers the reserve's administrative office, the Wolong Giant Panda Museum, and the China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda, which incorporates the panda breeding centre, nursery room, playground and hospital. The network, which allows Wolong researchers greater access to data, includes a video monitoring system using five cameras for observation of the pandas' activities around the clock and for sharing data quickly with colleagues around world. Prior to the new technology infrastructure, communication in and around the reserve was limited to patchy mobile phone access, and dial-up access in the nursing area.
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