KALININGRAD, RUSSIA--(Marketwire - June 3, 2009) - A new
wireless network deployed by Cisco (
NASDAQ:
CSCO) now provides Kant State University students and lecturers with online
access to educational and information resources from any location across
the university campus.
The university's new Wi-Fi network is built around a centralized
architecture with 180 Cisco® Aironet® 1130 AG Series wireless access
points installed across the university's campus. It has been designed to
provide faculty, student and guests with access to resources ranging from
the university's education portal, educational and methodological
materials, the library server, the encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius, and
Internet access.
"Equipping our facilities with appropriate technology that provides our
students and lecturers with the best possible access to educational
resources whilst driving collaboration between their peers is an important
factor as we strive to deliver an outstanding quality of education at
Kant," said Sergey Matveyev, vice chancellor of Kant University. "Today,
students can be seen accessing the Internet using their laptops from any
building across the campus, and lecturers use the network resources when
delivering their lectures in any one of our lecture halls. Cisco's solution
together with WesCom has established the university as an innovator in
education and technology, able to enhance citizens' lives in the
westernmost region of the Russian Federation."
Rather than an implementation of a single access point covering a
relatively small area, the Kaliningrad University required a highly secure,
reliable Wi-Fi network with ubiquitous coverage of the entire campus,
consisting of more than a dozen buildings.
"Education is a strategic area of focus for Cisco, not just as a technology
innovator, but as an innovator of education programs around the world,"
said Robert Agee, vice president for Cisco Russia. "We have developed a
large range of innovative solutions for educational institutions, using
technology to improve communication among students and teachers. In
addition, Cisco has created many academic programs for students and
certified ICT professionals, such as the Cisco Networking Academy®, which
has thousands of locations in 168 countries around the world dedicated to
building technology talent locally, which in turn helps to ensure a
self-sustaining economy."
The project was implemented by WesCom, a Kaliningrad company and a Cisco
Select Partner that renders system and network integration services.
The network operation is supported by features of the Cisco Unified
Wireless solution that assist operations by adjusting the capacity usage of
each access point automatically to help ensure a more reliable coverage of
the serviced territory. In addition, a backup of power supply units and
network connections makes the network more robust and resilient.
The Cisco wireless solution is an integrated architecture that provides
advanced security solutions embedded in the Cisco Unified Wireless Network.
The solution detects, blocks and notifies managers about unauthorized
connection attempts. This helps to ensure network and data integrity,
providing a high level of information security, which is one of the most
important requirements of network access today.
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