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Unplugged and Live Using WLAN on Campus to Improve Staff and Student Productivity

Unplugged and Live Using WLAN on Campus to Improve Staff and Student Productivity. Brent Pienaar IT Manager Dubai Women’s College (Higher Colleges of Technology), UAE. A Wireless Story…. What you‘re going to hear…. Meeting Business Demand: Changes Required

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Unplugged and Live Using WLAN on Campus to Improve Staff and Student Productivity

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  1. Unplugged and Live Using WLAN on Campus to Improve Staff and Student Productivity Brent Pienaar IT Manager Dubai Women’s College (Higher Colleges of Technology), UAE

  2. A Wireless Story…

  3. What you‘re going to hear… • Meeting Business Demand: Changes Required • Business Drivers: The DWC Laptop Initiative • DWC Experiences: Success factors and challenges • Watching the technologies change: A never ending story • Future Plans

  4. Meeting Business Demand Changes Required “Technology alone cannot improve effectiveness.” • Integrate IT within the curriculum • The ability to apply IT knowledge • Provide any time, any where curriculum • Use collaboration tools • Industry partnerships • Prepare future entrepreneurs

  5. Meeting Business Demand Restructuring the Curriculum

  6. Meeting Business Demand Objectives Given • Aligning IT and Business Goals • Fortifying Network Security • Maximizing IT Investments • Empowering a Mobile ‘Workforce’ • Embrace (emerging) Technology • More flexible classroom configurations • Spontaneous groupings of students

  7. Business Drivers The DWC Laptop Initiative

  8. Business Drivers Student Feedback I feel that using the laptop is improving my learning. 92%

  9. Business Drivers The Results • Every faculty and student has a laptop • Approx. 2500 wireless devices • WLAN signal “blankets” the campus • Every classroom (130) has access to the network and Internet • Wired and wireless connections • Internal resources have been reallocated

  10. Business Drivers Hours per day students spent using a laptop

  11. DWC Experiences Overview • Started our first pilot in 2000 • Partnerships key • 60 Intel Wireless Cards • 6 Intel Wireless Access Points • Viewed as a strategic investment • Staged purchase and deployment • In part driven by integrated antenna • Currently have 40 Access Points

  12. DWC Experiences Challenges • Novices - information sharing • Cannot happen overnight • Power and Cables • Convenience • Laptop Configuration • Signal Strength - coverage • Site Survey - placement of APs

  13. DWC Experiences Success Factors • Senior management sanctioned investment (time, resources & finance) • Educators (strategy) need to lead (IT can’t) • IT needs to innovate • Strategic application and integration of technology (enabler) • Partnerships • Reverse engineering (back to the future) • Time to mature; there is a process

  14. DWC Experiences Success Factors • Added true value; did not add technology for the sake of it • Didn’t always try for the hard sell • Partnered with industry leaders (mutual benefits) • Worldwide Case studies by Intel and IBM • Reference to DWC by Intel CEO • Integrated and seamless technology; not just an add-on

  15. Cost Standards Wireless Networking Antennas Access Points Integrated Wireless Cards Battery Life Security Wired Infrastructure Bandwidth Watching the technologies change A never ending story Laptop Chipset

  16. Watching the technologies change Additional Costs

  17. Cost Standards Wireless Networking Antennas Access Points Integrated Wireless Cards Battery Life Security Wired Infrastructure Bandwidth Watching the technologies change A never ending story Laptop Chipset

  18. Watching the technologies change Security

  19. Future Plans “For DWC, wireless is now a core technology.” “Extending the DWC Network Through Wireless Networking” “Flooding the New DWC Campus with Wireless Networking”

  20. Future Plans • Campus expansion • Gymnasium • Auditorium + Lecture Hall • Student Activity Center • Additional Classrooms • Wireless everywhere • 200+ APs • Tri-band functionality • Increased security • Mobility and ‘other’ devices

  21. Notes • Higher Colleges of Technology • http://www.hct.ac.ae • Dubai Women’s College • http://dwc.hct.ac.ae • Intel Case Studies • http://www.intel.com/ca/business/casestudies/pdf/dubai.pdf • http://www.intel.com/business/casestudies/dubai.pdf • IBM Case Study • http://www-306.ibm.com/software/success/cssdb.nsf/CS/DNSD-63RCNZ?OpenDocument&Site=default

  22. Thank You! Brent Pienaar MIS, CPA, CISSP, CISA IT Manager

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