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Houston's San Jacinto College Deep in $5 million Network and Phone Upgrade

San Jacinto College in Texas has begun work on a five-year, $5 million project to upgrade its network infrastructure and introduce voice over IP to its three campuses.

Small University Pushes ID Management to the Cloud

Moving a university's mission-critical ID management solution to the cloud requires something of a leap of faith. For Coppin State University, the leap also required a hands-on, several-months-long proof of concept with a trusted vendor to convince the small university that the solution would work.

UMass Systems Office Looks To Boost Network Security

The University of Massachusetts Systems Office has implemented an application to monitor uptime and security of its network.

Law School Goes Without Controller in New Wireless Network

A public university with nearly 315,000 students has implemented a new wireless infrastructure in its law school.

Coppin State Moves Identity Management Online

Coppin State University has moved its identity management function off of its own servers and onto a hosted version of software from the same vendor.

NAC Magic at Keystone College

The right combination of wireless network hardware and network access control software has freed the IT crew at this small college to focus on user demands other than access problems.



Georgia State Cranks Up Network with 10 GbE Upgrade

Georgia State University in Atlanta, which expected 31,000 students on campus this fall, will be upgrading its switches to 10 gigabit Ethernet.

DAS: The Technology You’ve Never Heard of Enables the Wireless Campus

Spurred by students’ voracious appetites for smartphones and broadband mobile devices, demand for wireless service and bandwidth-intensive mobile applications has grown dramatically at Texas A&M University. Faced with this challenge, the university had two alternatives: deploy new microcell sites for each operator, or deploy a shared network of Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS). Texas A&M’s solution provides a glimpse into the communications challenges that many universities face today.

Polycom Certifies Aruba Gear for Setting Up Remote Connections

Polycom, a company that sells collaboration tools for video and voice, has approved remote worker technology from Aruba Networks to work on its systems.

Think Your Internet Connection Is Fast? Don't Count On It

Most Internet users have long been aware that the actual download speeds they get from their Internet connections are somewhat slower than advertised.