Is It Possible?

[kzibari]

Our university is considering installing a wireless network to connect all its colleges together. Each college has its own traditional wired LAN. The plan is to connect all the around 20 colleges or LANs togther with a wireless solution (a sort of backbone for the university) Some colleges are about 4 miles apart from one another.

Is it possible to interconnect all these LANs together with wireless? How many access points or base stations would we need?

Many thanks in advance

Akz

[gamccall]

For each point-to-point link between buildings or sites, you'll need one bridge on either end of the link.

You do not need any access points unless you wish to offer wireless access to users... point to point bridging is completely separate from user access.

Assuming there are no line-of-sight issues, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to accomplish what you're describing. Designing the specific solution may be a job for a hired consultant, though.