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Mobility
11/29/2005
101 BEST PRACTICES MOBILITY
The ability to offer faculty, students, and staff ubiquitous campus computing and communications mobility is a dream now becoming reality. The only questions that remain are: 1) How effectively are networks, devices, and processes being converged to enable such mobility? 2) How seamlessly can they evolve to enable next-generation mobility? The best practices contained herein offer both a primer to those just now contemplating the fully wireless environment, and a blueprint for growth to those already involved in campus mobility initiatives.
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Imagination on the move
In our July 2005 issue, Campus Technology reported on the new wireless network at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. With the help of wireless vendor 5G Wireless, the Anderson School was able to cover 85 percent of the space with a G-Force Base Station—one access point on a pole or mast. And, with significant savings, Eric Crane, Network Infrastructure, Security, and Server manager says the biggest savings was the maintenance. Instead of having to maintain five or six dozen access points, staffers at Anderson Computing and Information Services (ACIS) need only to worry about six, freeing them up to extinguish IT fires elsewhere on campus. Read the article
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Transforming how students use mobile phones
Students at Montclair State University (NJ) can now use their cell phones in more ways than they imagined. Montclair's Campus Connect allows students to customize their mobile phones for 24/7 access to all the information and resources needed to manage their academic, community, and social lives on campus. " Rave Wireless took the preferred communications device of the youth market and, working with the university, transformed it into an educational and community-building tool that will enable Montclair State to take a huge leap forward in preparing our students for productive roles in a technology-based society," says Susan A. Cole, president at Montclair. With the new technology students can: receive realtime alerts and information from the university; track the actual location of the campus shuttle buses; check class assignments and study hall availability; read and create personal mobile blogs; coordinate group activities and trips; and access health- and safety-related information.
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Homegrown CMS
Georgetown University
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