BETHLEHEM, Pa., June 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The Enterprise
division of Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) has today
announced the deployment of advanced networking technology at
Moravian College, one of the oldest
educational institutions in the United
States, creating a new learning environment to serve the
digital technology needs and expectations of today's students.
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise has provided its Unified Access
network technology to provide students and faculty staff with
secure 'anytime, anywhere' access across the entire campus. The
network enables all data, video and multimedia traffic – important
elements for today's higher education environment - to make use of
a single secure network, and be accessed by any device without
overloading IT with network management and support needs. The
network capacity meets the needs of the college today and is
prepared to support future expansion.
Founded in 1742, the private, co-educational Moravian College is
America's sixth-oldest college and the first to enroll women.
Always a leading provider of opportunity, Moravian has recognized the importance technology
plays in the lives of students, creating a stimulating education
environment and an even playing field for students' future
opportunities through an innovative approach to both corporate and
consumer technologies.
This vision led the college to launch an initiative, built on an
all-Apple® device strategy, to provide each student with
Apple laptops and tablets, along with a new network that supports
connectivity everywhere on campus for students. The new initiative
encourages a more collaborative, knowledge sharing environment
designed for tailored and interactive learning.
With technology availability playing an important part in
students' choice of schools¹, Moravian
College conducted a survey of students last year and found
that many were unhappy with the performance of the institution's
existing network. The survey also revealed that existing network
connections at Moravian were less than
satisfactory, with connectivity dropping as students moved from one
place to another location due to lack of coverage and capacity.
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise and channel partner Advance 2000
worked to design an integrated wired and wireless network. The
result was a Unified Access environment tailored for the
Moravian College campus that addresses
this problem, simplifies the operations via automation and improved
network management, and overall provide a better user
experience.
Quotes
Scott Hughes, Chief Information
Officer, Moravian College
"Our
vision was to assure each student would have modern technology to
enhance their learning and living experience here. When we
committed to issuing multiple devices to our students, we realized
they would also be bringing more from home. Students have high
expectations of what wired and wireless networks should provide to
support their research for classes and their social interactions.
We needed a network that could effectively handle the academic load
that would be placed on it and easily support the social and
entertainment load the students would generate.
Working with Advance 2000 and Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, we've
designed a network that can handle that level of use and deliver a
high quality experience anywhere on campus. With this new network,
Moravian College can achieve its vision
for a new education environment in which everyone has the same
tools and same access experience regardless of where they are on
campus or which network they are using. The classroom walls are
totally removed with the availability of a full blown modern
wireless network. And teaching, learning and collaboration can
happen anywhere on campus, anytime it's appropriate."
Additional information
Moravian Chief Information Officer, Scott Hughes will share the school's success in
a free webinar with Information Week titled "How to move Unified
Access to the Front of the Class" on June
19, 2014. Register to learn more about Moravian College.
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¹ Top Hat's Modern Educator Blog
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