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tight capital budgets may require that WiFi hardware remain. in place for four or five years or more. Solution: The AirWave Management Platform software ...

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Managing WiFi in Higher Education Managing WiFi in Higher Education Page 1Managing WiFi Networks in Higher EducationOverview Colleges and universities have been perhaps theearliest and most aggressive adopters of WiFi technology over the past five years. WiFi offers a simple way to provide network connections inhundreds of campus locations that could not be reached costeffectively with wired Ethernet:classrooms libraries administrative offices and evenoutdoor areas and athletic facilities. Today nearly every college and university has a rapidly growing WiFi network on campus. As student laptop usage expands it is common for university IT departments to be responsible for wireless LANs with more than 1000 nodes and several thousandsimultaneous users. These IT departments function very differently and have vastly different resources and priorities thantheir peers managing comparable wireless networks in Fortune 500 corporations. To control costs and meet network performance requirements the university IT staff needs specialized softwaresolutions designed to address their specific needs. Ingeneral proprietary solutions offered by WiFihardware vendors fall short of the need. To develop a wireless management system for universities AirWave Wireless worked closely with leading organizations like Indiana University the University of Wisconsin Vanderbilt University and many others. The AirWave Wireless Management Suite software allows IT to successfully operate andsupport wireless LANs on campus by addressing: Ease of use for a diverse IT staff: Colleges and university IT departments employ a diverse staff ranging from student interns and graduate students to highly skilled network engineers. All these individuals need information from the wireless management solution to perform their jobs. Long hardware lifecycles: Universities typically need and expect their network infrastructure to last longer than a Fortune 500 corporation with billiondollar IT budgets. E X E C ...

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