In my experience interior glass won't have the IR reflective coatings that block RF. They're expensive and provide no energy efficiency benefits indoors. That said, I've had thoughts along these lines and checked with our office of physical plant. Most interior windows are made to order could be equipped with the coatings if you decide it's worth the expense. I was warned that there might be some compatibility issues between the IR coatings and certain coatings applied for cosmetic reasons - color, opacity, etc. - so going this route could limit the architect's creative choices.
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeffrey D. Sessler Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 11:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Planning for Interference in Engineering buildings - arc welding, plasma cutting etc. If the glass has any sort of e-coating, it's a death sentence for WiFi. One of our consortium members put up a new building that is clad in e-coated glass, and a AP running at full power next to a window can't be seen on the other side. This could work to your advantage inside the building since it would also help with the interference from the engineering tools. at the expense of needing a lot more WAPs. Jeff From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jennifer Francis Wilson Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 7:12 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Planning for Interference in Engineering buildings - arc welding, plasma cutting etc. Any of you guys got experience of planning, seeing or mitigating EM interference coming from engineering tools? We've got a new engineering building going up later this year and I'd like to know if there is anything specific I should look out for or ask the engineering people if it will be in there. I've read something about high frequency arc starters being pretty bad, any practical experience with those? Apparently most of the interior is going to be glass walled (don't know what kind of glass it will be yet so don't know if it will block or allow wireless) as they want it to be a visually impressive building. Regards, Jen. Jennifer Wilson Senior IT network Analyst University of Central Lancashire ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
