Reliable, scalable and easy-to-manage wireless LAN solutions benefit faculty and 80,000 students.
SCHAUMBURG, Ill. – The Enterprise Mobility Solutions business unit of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) announced that the Los Rios Community College District, located in the greater Sacramento area, has deployed Motorola’s wireless LAN (WLAN) solutions across its four campuses. Motorola’s wireless solutions are delivering cost-effective, reliable and scalable coverage to enhance classroom lectures and enable access to online resources from both indoor and outdoor locations across the district’s colleges.
“Our colleges seek to provide outstanding programs and services, and by offering Wi-Fi access, students can take advantage of vast online resources to easily access lecture notes, register for classes or conduct research for assignments,” said Mark Williams, Network Architect, Los Rios Community College District. “The network has also become the primary connection point for Internet access especially in older buildings and portables, leading our IT department to think about wireless by default and wired as needed.”
As the second largest community college district in California with nearly 80,000 students enrolled across its colleges, the Los Rios Community College District serves a diverse population looking to meet undergraduate requirements, learn technical skills and acquire various certifications. Given the number of students enrolled, the district wanted to provide a reliable, high-performance network that could accommodate the increasing use of notebook computers and wireless devices across the campuses. In addition, the district wanted to reduce labor costs associated with Ethernet drops in portables and older buildings by relying on the wireless network to provide connectivity. To achieve these goals, the IT staff selected Motorola’s WLAN solutions for their unparalleled resiliency and flexibility to meet the current and future needs of the colleges, including the ability to extend to the farthest edges of each campus.
To fulfill the district’s goal to provide easy access to information and meeting the individual connectivity needs of each college campus, Motorola’s WLAN solutions have been deployed across all buildings, outdoor areas and sport venues. Los Rios uses Motorola’s 802.11a/b/g AP300 access ports and 802.11n adaptive AP-7131 access points, managed by the award-winning RFS6000 and WS5100 wireless switches. The college also uses the mesh functionality of the AP-7131 to connect distant buildings when Ethernet is not practical due to needs for temporary connectivity or when digging a trench is cumbersome and/or cost-prohibitive. In total, the college has more than 300 access points across all four campuses and administration buildings.
Motorola’s 802.11n wireless solutions are effective for large campus deployments as the adaptive architecture has built-in intelligence in the access points that increase scalability versus centralized architectures. For example, in a classroom setting when a teacher shares a video with students over the wireless network, the traffic is bridged locally to student laptops minimizing the impact on the wired network.
The result is a seamless, all-wireless campus solution that delivers high-speed Internet access to the colleges and is free to students. For faculty, Los Rios offers a secure wireless connection, which in some older buildings has become the only Internet connection in the classroom, enabling instructors to employ multimedia presentations with streaming video into lesson plans. In addition, faculty can easily update online grade systems and student information while in the classroom.
“Los Rios’ wireless deployment offers the high performance and reliability that community colleges require to meet the demands of students while also offering IT staff the flexibility to extend network connections when needed,” said Sujai Hajela, vice president and general manager for Enterprise Wireless LAN, Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions. “Motorola has the expertise and wireless networking solutions to meet virtually any wireless networking challenge, helping educational institutions like Los Rios serve the needs and goals of their communities.”
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To learn more about how Motorola’s solutions are helping colleges and universities enhance the learning experience for students, please visit Motorola (Booth #1050) at the EDUCAUSE 2009 conference in Denver, Colorado on November 3-5, 2009.
Motorola delivers seamless connectivity that puts real-time information in the hands of users, which gives customers the agility they need to grow their business or better serve and protect the public. Working seamlessly together with its world-class devices, Motorola's unrivaled wireless network solutions include indoor wireless LAN, outdoor wireless mesh, point-to-multipoint, point-to-point networks and voice-over-WLAN solutions. Combined with powerful software tools for wireless network design, best-of-breed security, management and troubleshooting, Motorola's solutions deliver trusted networking and access anywhere to organizations across the globe.
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