Education

Educational institutions and campuses today face increasing challenges in how to effectively regulate end users usage of information technology (IT) resources. Post-secondary education facilities including colleges and universities all share one thing in common: an extremely high ratio of connected users in their environment, including students and faculty, who in many instances have completely unmetered access to campus IT resources and the internet. As access broadens beyond classrooms and libraries to include wireless access in dorms, lecture halls and common areas, it becomes a greater burden for IT administrators to securely manage the network. Peer to peer traffic on the network overwhelms resources and dominates available bandwidth, severely degrading production application performance.

Vistagate offers fully managed wired and wireless solutions for education and campus based high speed internet requirements, which makes the provision of this essential service fast and trouble free. Educational institutions are faced with multiple challenges when it comes to providing the modern networking capabilities demanded by today’s applications. Buildings with historical value, possible asbestos hazards, large campuses, temporary buildings and a vast mobile population can create a networking nightmare. And with a limited budget, these problems might be difficult to overcome. Wireless technologies solve these problems readily. Wireless offers:

• No new wiring

• Fast installation with no permits required

• Large coverage areas

• Mobile freedom

Students aren’t the only mobile users in campus networks. Guest lecturers, alumni, students’ parents and conference attendees compose a transient group that requests and/or requires Internet access for official and personal use. With the rise in Wi-Fi clients embedded in laptops, users are beginning to expect ubiquitous Internet access. Accommodating guest access on a one-by-one basis – whether through the wired or private campus wireless network – is cumbersome, time-consuming and generally not practical for IT organizations and users alike.

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