Universities Delivering Anytime, Anywhere Network Access
Higher Education Institutions Around the Country Select Cisco
Wireless Networking Solutions to Provide Students, Faculty with
Untethered Access to Information
SAN JOSE, Calif., November 17, 2005 - Illustrating the growing
wireless trend in higher education, Cisco Systems today announced
large-scale wireless local area network (WLAN) deployments at
Purdue University, University of Wisconsin, and William & Mary
College.
Colleges and universities continue to embrace broad-based wireless
networks across campuses for the benefit of their own faculty,
staff, students and guests. To enable educators to more easily meet
the growing demands for 'campuses without walls', Cisco recently
announced Cisco Connected Learning, a three-step blueprint that
helps higher education institutions transition their college or
university to a student-centered, globally-aware 21st century
learning environment. Additional examples of schools that are
transitioning to Connected Learning campuses by integrating
wireless into their
teaching, learning and
administrative environments include Prairie View A&M
University, Duke University, and Wake Forest University.
Laptop Battery "Wireless networking on college campuses promotes efficient use
of time and resources, and increases real-time communication
between professors and students, and among student groups," said
Alan Cohen, senior director of marketing, Wireless Networking
Business Unit, Cisco Systems. "College students are increasingly
using their notebook computers and handheld devices to access a
range of information from their student records to web-based
collaborative group projects and course
content. Cisco is seeing broad
based deployments in colleges and universities of all
sizes."
Purdue University
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Thinkpad Located in West Lafayette Indiana, Purdue University has
implemented a plan to make wireless network access broadly
available on campus to students and faculty. With more than 38,000
students, most using Wireless LAN-enabled notebook computers, and
schools and departments on campus setting up their own mini
wireless networks, Purdue saw a clear need for a university-wide
wireless network that provided a common security model and was
centrally managed. Information Technology at Purdue created a
campus-wide wireless network called Purdue Air Link (PAL) based on
Cisco wireless networking equipment. The wireless network enables
all Purdue faculty, staff, and students to access all Web-based
resources, including course materials, throughout the campus
without hard-wired connections.
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Microsoft "Our philosophy with PAL was to make educational and research
materials available anytime, anywhere from any wirelessly-enabled
device," said James Bottum, vice president for Information
Technology and chief information officer (CIO) at Purdue. "Cisco
provided an upgradeable wireless solution that was also attractive
economically. The solution has proven to be a wise decision as we
have upgraded PAL to accommodate the new technologies coming out,
as well as serving the legacy technology standards."
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Laptop Computers Purdue has deployed nearly 1,300 Cisco Aironet 1200 Access
Points in all 140 buildings across campus, including high-traffic
student areas, such as residence halls, main libraries, and public
buildings, including the Purdue Memorial Union, as well as in
classrooms, and public administrative buildings. More than 20,000
students bring wireless devices to campus, and tens of thousands of
unique visitors are logging onto the wireless network. Users must
be authenticated to establish a highly secure network connection by
entering a personalized account login and password.
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Laptop Computer In common meeting locations such as in the Purdue Memorial
Union, students can use their wireless computers to access
educational materials and software applications from a remote
server. Students meeting to coordinate a group presentation can use
their laptops to work simultaneously on their assigned sections.
Faculty is finding the wireless network helps enhance their
productivity by using a laptop to continue work on projects between
meetings or classes without returning to the office.
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Desktop Computer In addition, Purdue University has extended its wireless network
to the Ross-Ade Stadium where spectators and media covering
sporting events can access electronic "infotainment" on demand
using wireless devices, including up-to-the-minute statistics,
player and coach biographies, games scores and instant video
replays.
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Notebooks The University of Wisconsin serves a large and diverse
constituency comprising 41,500 students, 3,800 faculty and
approximately 7,500 staff. The campus includes more than 180
buildings spread across 933 acres. The University Division of
Information Technology (DoIT), began deploying wireless networks on
campus earlier this year to provide ubiquitous coverage across the
campus.
Lenovo "Before we started our wireless initiative, wireless was
happening anyway in a haphazard way across campus," said Annie
Stunden, CIO at the University of Wisconsin. "The DoIT initiative
using Cisco wireless access points will deliver near ubiquitous
wireless coverage over the entire campus and will replace the
smaller, departmental wireless networks with a centrally supported,
highly secure, wireless network. Cisco's wireless infrastructure is
enabling us to enhance the educational experience on campus and
offer wireless access to guests that visit the campus."
Hard Drive With plans to deploy 2,200 Cisco Aironet Access Points (APs)
within the next nine months, the University has begun deployment of
the Cisco Aironet 1200 Series APs in public areas -- libraries,
student union, public meeting places -- and other buildings across
campus, and has installed approximately 400 to date. DoIT estimates
that about 30 percent of the University faculty and staff and 40
percent of the students already use the wireless network and the
numbers are growing.
Travelstar For students, the wireless network enables them to access from
any location at any time, all the network services, including
connecting to the university portal where students can access a
personalized window of their financial records, course schedules,
email and calendar. For faculty and students, they gain anytime,
anywhere access to online calendaring, email and the ability to
post and access class curriculum and syllabuses using Learn@UW, the
University's course management system.
College of William and Mary
Gateway As America's second oldest college, William and Mary, is also
ranked as the best small public university in the nation. With more
than 80 percent of incoming freshmen bringing notebook computers,
and a university initiative to require all students to use notebook
computers, wireless networking has emerged as a high priority
imperative for the College.
Laptop Parts William and Mary is deploying approximately 1,000 Cisco Aironet
1000 Series lightweight access points across campus, including
residence halls, where 4,500 undergraduate students live, and in
all educational buildings. The rollout of the wireless network is
expected to be finalized by the end of the year.
Software "Our teaching process will always be grounded in personal, face
to face interaction between faculty and students," said Courtney
Carpenter, CIO at the College of William and Mary. "However, the
combination of a highly secure wireless network and our forthcoming
requirement that all students use a notebook computer, will improve
the efficiency of administrative
processes, and augment and
enhance the educational experience. We are even providing grants
to professors to explore how to integrate wireless notebook
computers as part of specific class curricula."
Hard Drives Using the wireless network, students have convenient access to a
college portal, called myWM, where they can register for classes,
apply for financial aid, and access university email. Students can
also use the university learning management system to gain access
to class syllabi, lecture materials, and communicate with
classmates and professors.
Electronics More information about Cisco's education programs is available
at www.cisco.com/go/education and information about Cisco's
wireless solutions is available at www.cisco.com/go/wireless.
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