Networking/Wireless
- Campus Technology Innovator Deploys eTelemetry's Locate
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7/27/2007
Coppin State University (Baltimore, MD) has deployed Annapolis, MD-based eTelemetry's Locate appliance in order to passively match users with their IP address and PC and switch ports in real time.
- Who is Where on the Network?
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7/25/2007
Coppin State University (MD) now has an automated, centralized view of their network that facilitates both long-term planning and real-time problem solving.
- New Ohio U CIO Knocks Out Strategic Plan in 75 Days
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7/24/2007
Bruce Bible, Ohio University's recently appointed chief information officer, has completed an initial 75-day review of OU's information technology needs. The result is a new IT-management strategy to restructure the central office, designate advisory groups, and identify opportunities to collaborate with IT workers across the university's Athens and regional campuses.
- Duke: iPhone Not To Blame
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7/23/2007
It's been widely reported over the last week that Duke University had suffered network outages caused by Apple's iPhone. Duke University CIO Tracy Futhey released a statement Friday refuting this, saying not only that the problem had been minor and temporary, but that it was not caused by the iPhone at all.
- Bull Durham: Duke WiFi Outage Leads to iPhone Outrage
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7/23/2007
The media's search for iPhone flaws maintained its pace last week when Duke University's wireless local area network (WLAN) jammed for 10 to 15 minutes, apparently the result of newly commissioned iPhones inundating the university's Cisco wireless network servers.
- UMass Amherst Signs Deal for VoIP, Advanced Tech
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7/23/2007
The University of Massachusetts Amherst inked a five-year research and deployment agreement for advanced technology with switching vendor Cedar Point Communications, the result of a successful test of voice over IP technology at the UMass Amherst campus.
- UVA-Wise Taps Mirage for Network Security
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7/18/2007
The University of Virginia's College at Wise (UVA-Wise) will implement network security technology from Mirage Networks (Austin, TX) to protect network communications at its residence halls.
- Duke Puts Mouse Brains Online
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7/16/2007
Answering the prayers of those who like to look at mouse brains, Duke University's Center for In Vivo Microscopy last week posted the results of new advances in magnetic resonance imaging, showing off high-resolution 3D images of mouse brains, including a genetically modified mouse brain.
- VoIP Network Smoothes Medical Campus Transition for UCH
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7/5/2007
Aurora, CO-based University of Colorado Hospital tapped voice over IP (VoIP) and data communications provider NEC Unified Solutions to create a scalable IP/TDM voice network to help deliver enhanced patient care at its new and growing Anschutz Medical Campus.
- UT Puts Force10 Switch at Heart of Physics Research
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6/21/2007
The University of Tennessee's (Knoxville, TN) physics department has installed a C300 resilient switch from Force 10 Networks (San Jose, CA) to help analyze data from CERN's large hadron collider (LHC), a particle accelerator.
- Chinese Arrest Three in Wi-Fi Exam Cheating Caper
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6/18/2007
The Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that three people have been arrested for using Wi-Fi microphones to cheat on national college entrance exams. The exams, which are "make or break" rites of academic passage, are considered state secrets before the tests, Xinhua reported.
- U Missouri Expands E-Mail Infrastructure
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6/14/2007
University of Missouri recently revamped its Microsoft Exchange messaging environment with the help of EMC Corporation's products and services. According to EMC, the IT department at the university has reworked its infrastructure, allowing for a 500 percent increase in employees' mailbox quotas and 100 percent increase in students' mailbox quotas.
- Building for Student Success
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6/13/2007
San Jose State University AVP Mary Jo Gorney-Moreno comments on the process of creating a high-tech student success center on campus.
- Duke Manages Campus Network Via NetMRI
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6/7/2007
To simplify management of a campus network consisting of more than 33,000 ports, Duke University (Durham, NC) has deployed Annapolis, MD-based Netcordia's NetMRI Enterprise, a network management and monitoring solution.
- UC Profs See Car Traffic as Basis of a Mobile Internet
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6/4/2007
Computer scientists at UCLA are working on a project to use moving cars as nodes in a network to create literally a mobile mobile network.
- Culture Morph
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6/1/2007
Technologists and librarians are discovering that intelligent organizational overlap is the route to the digital library of the future.
- Drexel Rolls Out Wireless Access Throughout Philly Area
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5/29/2007
Drexel University and Internet service provider EarthLink Inc. struck a deal to extend the boundaries of its wireless network so that students, faculty, and staff can access university resources or browse the Internet via EarthLink's Wi-Fi networks.
- Peirce Accelerates Student Portal
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5/24/2007
Peirce College is accelerating its Web applications with Crescendo Networks. The Philadelphia, PA college is using Crescendo's Maestro Application Front End to accelerate Java and ASP services on a student portal that's expected to launch by the end of this quarter.
- When Ideas Move without Friction
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5/23/2007
An interview with the Software Freedom Law Center's (SFLC) Eben Moglen about the future of collaboration and technology.
- Illegal File Sharing Rooted Out at Ohio U, Say Admins
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5/21/2007
Ohio University boasted that, following crackdown, illegal file sharing via its campus networks has been eradicated. University CIO Brice Bible said that illegal file-sharing on the university's network had "virtually stopped," according to a report in the Athens (OH) Times.
- Carnegie Mellon Picks Open Network Monitoring Software
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5/15/2007
Carnegie Mellon University purchased the NeXpose security software suite to help it enhance scanning and monitoring of its campus networks.
- NC State-IBM Virtual Computing Project Bearing Fruit
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5/15/2007
North Carolina State University said a partnership it formed seven months ago with IBM Corp. to offer unused computer cycles via the Internet to higher ed and K-12 institutions for learning and research projects is starting to bear fruit.
- Survey Said ...
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5/10/2007
I look forward each year to the EDUCAUSE annual Current Issues Survey Report. There is always something new and interesting, be it the ways in which the survey instrument itself has been shaped to reflect the association’s view of the field or in the results of the survey.
- Carnegie Mellon To Deploy NeXpose
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5/10/2007
Carnegie Mellon announced plans to deploy vulnerability management software from software developer Rapid7 for systems and networks at the university. The NeXpose software is designed to examine and analyze the cause of any problem.
- U New Hampshire Lab Demos at iWarp Interoperability
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5/8/2007
The University of New Hampshire successfully demonstrated multi-vendor interoperability between iWARP devices, which it claimed was an industry first.
