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Smart Practices--Finding a Wireless System
4/1/2004
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The biggest advantage the university gains with the new system is that it d'esn’t require daily maintenance and management—because it’s external. The box is rarely under load or having any problems.Before finding Perfigo, the university did not authenticate dorms because it
was such a cumbersome task. The university couldn’t authenticate those
users, they would spend numerous hours a day tracking machines with viruses
or trying to catch abusers. The university knows how to reach any machine, when
they get an e-mail from another university informing them that a Boise State
student has a virus or is trying to hack into their network and they can go
directly to that person based on information they already have. It saves time
and headaches.
Boise State University responded to the demand for wireless access by its students
and keeps up with increasingly technological needs. True scalability is the
key to quickly and easily expanding and supporting more applications, as well
as users, without necessarily adding more equipment.
Brian McDevitt (bmcdevi@boisestate. edu) is manager of Telephone and Network
Services at Boise State University, Office of Information Technology (OIT).
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