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Linking to Mexico: Connectivity Without Borders
5/7/2002
Researchers also are beginning to work with a binational commission to identify and improve cross-border health issues. By using the high-capacity connection to tap into large geographic information system databases, they will be able to track disease outbreaks and help pinpoint causes, or trace groundwater routes to new access points—a big issue for both the southwestern United States and northern Mexico."The wireless network is helping us meet two other central goals of our Internet2 efforts: distance learning and exchange in Mexico and cultural enhancements and collaboration with Mexico," Maxwell says. In fact, the university is already exploring ways to expand the wireless connection to the local El Paso and Mexican school districts, allowing them access to Internet2 through UTEP.
For more information, contact Paul Maxwell at pmaxwell@utep.edu.
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