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U New Hampshire Lab Demos at iWarp Interoperability

5/8/2007

The University of New Hampshire successfully demonstrated multi-vendor interoperability between iWARP devices, which it claimed was an industry first.

Report Outlines Higher Ed Concerns on VoIP

5/7/2007

A survey by the Association for Communications Professionals in Higher Education concluded that fewer than half of colleges and universities in North America have migrated to voice over IP networks, but many are readying conversions in the next six months to two years.

Time To Discover NFM

5/1/2007

Managing resource usage and data delivery with virtualization devices is a staple of many of today’s data infrastructures. By breaking the traditional direct physical access and inserting an abstraction layer, what you see is what you get, but the mechanics of delivery may be quite different.

Evolutionary in Technology, Revolutionary in Impact

4/25/2007

Ken Klingenstein has led national networking initiatives for the last 25 years. He's participated in the development of the Internet from its inception and says he's had one of the best seats to watch the evolution of network infrastructure and applications.

Midwest Universities To Launch Broadband Optical Net

4/23/2007

The University of Minnesota, Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have banded together to create the Broadband Optical Research, Education, and Sciences Network (BOREAS-Net), a high-speed optical network to share data and collaborate with other institutions.

KanREN To Manage State Educational Network with Entuity

4/19/2007

KanREN, a consortium of Kansas colleges, universities, school districts, and other non-profit organizations that operates a statewide backbone network, will use New York/London-headquartered Entuity Inc.'s Eye of the Storm to manage its network.

Security, QoS at Core of Italian University's Converged Network

4/19/2007

Italy's University of Milan Bicocca will work with Santa Clara, CA-based Extreme Networks Inc. to upgrade its campus-wide network with a scalable, secure infrastructure that will deliver multimedia communications to staff, faculty, and visitors across multiple campuses.

Harvard To Field Citywide Wireless Sensors Network

4/17/2007

Harvard University is collaborating with the city of Cambridge, MA and networking firm BBN Technologies to install 100 wireless sensors on streetlights in Cambridge to help research environmental changes, ranging from air pollution to potential terrorist activity.

CMU Prof Proposes Faster P2P Music, Movie Downloads

4/17/2007

A Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist has proposed a way to speed transferring large data files, such as movies and music, with a technology that would generalize the types of files that could be moved over peer to peer networks.

Microsoft Partners with REN-ISAC for Higher Ed Security

4/12/2007

Microsoft and the Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center (REN-ISAC) have entered into an alliance to expand Microsoft's Security Cooperation Program into higher education. The announcement came yesterday at the Educause/Internet2 Security Professionals Conference 2007 being held in Denver, CO.

Campus Technology Webinar: Unexpected Quick Wins in 802.1X

4/12/2007

802.1X is gaining momentum in higher education. Driven by ever-growing user demand for ubiquitous network access, many of today's colleges and universities are adopting 802.1X as the authentication and access control framework to secure wired and wireless networks.

Flagler College To Take Historic Buildings Wireless

4/9/2007

Flagler College in Florida will deploy a wireless network throughout its campus in an effort to preserve the integrity of the historic buildings on the school's site and to provide centralized security for its wireless users. Alcatel-Lucent will handle the implementation.

Charleston To Stream NCAA Events Wirelessly

4/4/2007

This month Charleston Southern University in South Carolina will deploy what is described as the "first-ever all-wireless network" for delivering live video and audio streaming of NCAA soccer and softball events.

CMU Engineering Dean Honored for Global Edu Vision

4/3/2007

Pradeep Khosla, dean of Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering, was given the "Cyber Education Champion Award" from the Business Software Alliance, an association of software companies.

To Each His Own ... Laptop

3/22/2007

It was only in the last couple of years that the number of laptops shipped annually exceeded the number of desktops. I can still remember....

Novell Joins OpenCourseWare Consortium

3/21/2007

Enterprise solutions provider Novell has joined the OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCWC), the company announced this week. OCWC is an initiative among the higher education community to promote the development and implementation of open-source education materials.

Stevens To Open School To Study Meta IT Enterprises

3/20/2007

The Stevens Institute of Technology will open the School of Systems and Enterprises to study and educate students in the advanced information technology systems it said are increasingly driving the global economy.

Review: Google Mini 2.2

3/19/2007

"Deploy and forget." That's the phrase that comes to mind to describe the Google Mini, the 1U rackmount appliance from Google....

Hamilton Expands Mirage Endpoint Control Implementation

3/19/2007

Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, has expanded use of Mirage Networks' Endpoint Control system across its campus and deployed the company's Mirage Management Server for security.

Blue Lane Debuts VirtualShield for VMware

3/15/2007

Blue Lane Technologies has released a new security utility for VMware called VirtualShield. The tool, developed in cooperation with VMware, is designed to provide protection for the VMware Infrastructure 3 platform.

OSU Mobile Facility Adopts Spacenet Satellite Networking

3/7/2007

Oklahoma State University's Center for Health Sciences has selected Spacenet as the provider of satellite network services for its new mobile telemedicine unit, the Telemedicine Center.

Colgate University Implements Network Analysis Tool

3/6/2007

Colgate University recently implemented NetMRI E-400, a network analysis and reporting tool from Netcordia.

Villanova U Rolls Out Meru Wireless LAN System

3/5/2007

Pennsylvania's Villanova University has upgraded and expanded its WLAN infrastructure, replacing its legacy network with Meru Networks' Wireless LAN System.

Extricom Offers $1 Million in WLAN Technology

2/26/2007

Extricom, a manufacturer of WLAN technologies, announced the start of its 2007 Education Grant program for higher education and K-12 schools. The grant will award a total of $1 million worth of wireless local area network (WLAN) equipment and discounts to schools.

101 BEST PRACTICES >> Connectivity

11/23/2006

Today, campus connectivity is all about advanced eLearning, ubiquitous computing, high-performance computing grid resources for researchers, next-gen student services, and much, much more.