An interesting
press release for Cisco gunning for the higher education market recognising that more universities are wanting to integrate wireless networking into their I.T. strategies and that students are carrying WiFi enabled handhelds. Although judging from my experience of some UK Uni's I'm left wondering where although there are some U.S. case studies in the PR:
Universities Delivering Anytime, Anywhere Network Access; Higher Education Institutions Around the Country Select Cisco Wireless Networking Solutions to Provide Students, Faculty with Untethered Access to Information
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 17, 2005--Illustrating the growing wireless trend in higher education, Cisco Systems(R) (Nasdaq:CSCO) today announced large-scale wireless local area network (WLAN) deployments at Purdue University, University of Wisconsin, and William & Mary College.
Colleges and universities continue to embrace broad-based wireless networks across campuses for the benefit of their own faculty, staff, students and guests. To enable educators to more easily meet the growing demands for 'campuses without walls', Cisco recently announced Cisco Connected Learning, a three-step blueprint that helps higher education institutions transition their college or university to a student-centered, globally-aware 21st century learning environment. Additional examples of schools that are transitioning to Connected Learning campuses by integrating wireless into their teaching, learning and administrative environments include Prairie View A&M University, Duke University, and Wake Forest University.
"Wireless networking on college campuses promotes efficient use of time and resources, and increases real-time communication between professors and students, and among student groups," said Alan Cohen, senior director of marketing, Wireless Networking Business Unit, Cisco Systems. "College students are increasingly using their notebook computers and handheld devices to access a range of information from their student records to web-based collaborative group projects and course content. Cisco is seeing broad based deployments in colleges and universities of all sizes."
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