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Mobility
11/29/2005
International Parking Institute for inspiration, and found a parking solution from Digital Payment Technologies. DPT installed the technology at pay stations and set up wireless access points to link them together over a campuswide wireless network. Mobile commerce solutions provider, Verrus, merged the university's physical pay stations with software to enable users to pay for parking remotely, from any standard mobile device—even via a cell phone. In addition, UCSB parking patrol officers are now equipped with PDAs that send them up-to-the-minute information about soon-to expire parking spaces. Read the articleCampus trends—wireless and VoIP/
Casey Green's 2004 Campus Computing Survey revealed continuing gains in the deployment of wireless networks (Wi-Fi) on campuses. Institutions ranked wireless among their "Top 5 Issues" in the 2004 survey, and 55.3 percent reported that they had strategic plans for wireless networking. The survey has also tracked VoIP deployment since 2001, and the 2004 survey reports that 26.8 percent of surveyed institutions now have VoIP installations in place. Read the article
Reaching out to more students
With more than 20,400 students at the University of Hawaii-Manoa—both on-campus learners and distant learners—the school's administrators felt a need to address their instructor shortage. In 2002, the college's office of Technology and Distance Programs was established to address this need, and recently, the College of Education at the University of Hawaii implemented a year-long pilot project using a live eLearning environment. "In an effort to shift from travel to synchronous education, we are using Elluminate Live! to eliminate a single weekend of travel this semester, which represents about $4,500 in savings," said Paul B. McKimmy, director of Technology and Distance Programs for the College of Education. The technology has enabled learning at UH to become mobile, and provides instruction to a larger number of students, including more students with disabilities.
Debunking the myths of wireless network coverage
Instrumental in implementing a wide-area network (WAN) on his campus, Eric Crane, manager of Network Infrastructure, Security, and Servers at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, debunks the myth that you must have high data rates for your mobile users. Crane comments: "Mobile users commonly use less data-intensive apps such as e-mail." Crane g'es on to say that typically, only 20 percent of users are on the network at any given time, a factor that curbs the load. Read the article
Recommended Reading
- Fixed-Mobile Convergence: Dartmouth Beefs Up Cell Coverage, Cuts Costs
Problems with cell phone coverage aren't uncommon on college campuses. There are two main reasons: The beefy structure of historic buildings can block cellular reception within walls, and, on more remote campuses outside cities, signal coverage can be light.
- Thompson Rivers U Deploys Unified Digital Campus for ERP
Thompson Rivers University (TRU) in British Columbia has selected SunGard Higher Education's Banner Unified Digital Campus (UDC) to integrate its ERP systems.
- DV Kitchen Web Video Publishing System Released
DVcreators.net has released DV Kitchen, a new video encoding and publishing application for Mac OS X designed specifically for creating materials to be posted on the Web.
- NEC Debuts 4 Education Projectors
NEC this week debuted four new projectors targeted toward education applications, along with a new MultiSync LCD display. The new NP-series projectors are entry-level models started at $899 but are designed to provide high light output, support for closed captioning, and built-in networking capabilities.
- Security Researchers Uncover Spring Framework Vulnerability
Software frameworks are enjoying enormous popularity these days among a range of developers. It's popularity well earned; frameworks provide powerful tools for building more flexible and less error-prone applications. They generally enhance developer productivity with out-of-the-box functionality. And they can free developers to focus on features instead of common coding tasks.
- 3PAR Server Arrays Integrate Fat-to-Thin Processing
Utility storage provider 3PAR has announced the release of the 3PAR InServ T400 and T800 Storage Servers. The new hardware is built on the company's third-generation InSpire architecture, featuring the 3PAR Gen3 ASIC with integrated fat-to-thin processing.
