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Florida State commits to Wi-Fi deployment: four-year effort expands to campus classrooms.(PUBLIC SECTOR)
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America's Network
- Article date:
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May 1, 2005
- Author:
- Engebretson, Joan
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The proliferation of Wi-Fi hot spots at airports and coffee shops has whet users' appetites for more--and once college students and faculty experience the convenience of wireless bandwidth, it doesn't take long before they begin asking their information technology administrators to install it on campus, too.
Wi-Fi is becoming an important initiative for more and more colleges and universities. And for a large public university such as Florida State in Tallahassee, that undertaking can be similar in scale to that of a municipal deployment. Like other academic institutions implementing Wi-Fi, FSU has faced funding, security and manpower issues--and has found some creative ...