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Wireless Broadband for Education

Motorola's portfolio of wireless broadband solutions is earning high marks worldwide for our powerful, yet affordable high-speed education solutions. Wireless broadband enables applications that provide ubiquitous connectivity and excel at helping institutions meet their challenges by streamlining operations, reducing costs, increasing productivity and enhancing backup and redundancy. An increasing number of educational institutions are using wireless broadband technologies to help them control costs, eliminate inefficiencies and enhance student, faculty and community relations. The Motorola Wireless Broadband portfolio leads the industry in breadth and depth and provides a comprehensive high-speed ecosystem that delivers.

End-to-End Wireless Broadband Ecosystem

Motorola Wireless Broadband solutions are the foundation of a hgh-speed wireless ecosystem that connects every aspect of the learning environment.

Empowering Higher Education Environments

High-speed wireless computing is creating a new breed of college and university student. From Durban to Dubai, from Cambridge to Canberra, the new generation of higher education students are both computer and Internet literate. They demand instant high-speed access whenever they need it… and wherever they are. The fact is, more and more of the best and the brightest students are choosing an educational institution at least in part on its high-speed connectivity capabilities.

But wireless broadband isn't only about high-speed access. All around the world, colleges and universities are discovering that in addition to helping them be more attractive to students, wireless broadband capabilities are helping them in a great many other ways. They're encouraging and facilitating collaborative and distance learning, helping to increase safety and security on and off campus, and improving productivity of faculty, administration and staff. Higher education-specific benefits include:

Motorola Wireless Broadband Solutions

The Motorola Wireless Broadband portfolio of complementary high-speed wireless solutions enables colleges and universities to deliver, control and leverage IP-based voice, video and data in real time. Motorola Wireless Broadband solutions provide a robust, scalable, interference-tolerant broadband infrastructure that enhances connectivity, communication and collaboration for students, faculty and administrative leadership and staff.

• Ubiquitous Campus-Wide Connectivity.
• IT Security Solutions
• Video Surveillance Security Solutions
• Administrative Productivity
• Contingency Planning
• Revenue Building

Motorola Wireless Broadband infrastructure and equipment solutions deliver:

Our experience ranges from implementing the world's first nationwide school network (Macedonia Connects) to enabling K-12 and higher education environments of all types and sizes to quickly meet the growing demand for high-speed services.

Challenges

Most education institutions face a number of crucial challenges, including the needs to:

• Meet top students' connectivity demands
• Extend high-speed coverage off-campus
• Use coverage as competitive advantage
• Avoid network downtime
• Protect data from unauthorized use
• Streamline administrative operations

Information: The Common Denominator

As you formulate your response strategies, keep in mind that there is one common dominator central to virtually every solution that can successfully meet your challenges. That common denominator is information. Motorola Wireless Broadband infrastructure and equipment solutions deliver:

Connectivity

Motorola Wireless Broadband solutions make it easier, faster and more affordable to provide students and faculty with broadband Internet access from virtually everywhere on-and-off campus or throughout a school district.

Collaboration

Motorola Wireless Broadband networks greatly extend the geographical reach of education, and facilitate interactivity and collaboration through faster access to research, online library repositories, learning portals, course management systems, and much more.

Network Security

Through DES and AES over-the-air encryption standards, Motorola Wireless Broadband systems help individual schools, school districts and colleges and universities create and maintain the high levels of security that support and protect the dual educational requirements of open creation and information sharing.

Campus and School Safety

In today's ever-changing world, personal safety, premise and property protection, data center security and public safety are among every educational environment's highest priorities. In addition to providing ubiquitous access, Motorola's high-speed wireless networks enable state-of-the-art IP-based video surveillance capabilities for improved facility and campus security and enhanced personal safety for students, faculty and staff.

Downloads

» Greater Connectivity on Campus: How Academic Institutions are Leveraging Broadband to Build Robust Networks (3Mb pdf)
» Making the Grade: How School Districts are Leveraging Wireless Broadband to Deliver Interactive Educational Experiences (132Kb pdf)

» Empowering Higher Education Environments with Wireless Broadband
» Enhanced Wireless Broadband Solutions for the K-12 Segment
» Wireless Video Surveillance

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