campus mobility
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DEVELOPING AN EFFECTIVE CAMPUS MOBILITY STRATEGY
Campus Mobility ChallengesMeeting Ever-Growing Connectivity Demands…
Students are bringing three to four devices onto the network &
they expect to be connected everywhere, all the time.
Students aren’t the only ones keen to use mobile smart devices on
campus. University employees use the network for administration,
meetings, and events.
The days of working offline are over. Students and faculty are connected
24/7, and highly dependent on cloud resources. Away from
learning, students are gaming, streaming and socialising online.
Campus needs to make sure that the Wi-Fi network is ready for the dramatic increase in usage and the number of personal, mobile and wireless devices.
BUTOnly 8% of campuses say they’re prepared to handle the network strain!
Campus Mobility ChallengesInfrastructure required for…
Multiple buildings – lecture halls, library student residence,
communal areas.
Multiple campuses spread over thousands of m², often through
city centres, causing interference from other wireless networks.
Thousands of students with multiple devices.
Communication, entertainment and academic purposes
Campus Mobility ChallengesMaking sure the network is secure…
Campuses need to securely onboard new users and devices on a massive scale. Without self-service onboarding mechanisms, the burden is huge to IT support.
BUT these devices all pose threats to the network – mobile OS, gaming devices & wearables are obvious entry points for attacks.
Cyberattacks are more frequent and more sophisticated. Securing the real-time data traversing your network, blocking known malicious sites, and internal segmentation to break or delay the infection chain should a hacker or virus penetrate your defences is a priority.
Wireless Intrusion Prevention, Next Generation Firewalls (NGFW), IPS, Web filtering, Application control and Anti-malware are becoming essential, but can be complex to deploy.
Needs – A Smarter Campus
A robust, high-performance, scalable, secure wireless network connecting the entire campus to meet the huge academic
and residential bandwidth demands.
Wi-Fi security to ensure secure access - Critical and granular visibility into the entire
Wi-Fi network and underlying wired infrastructure.
Smarter learning environments by creating an interactive educational
experience regardless of whether students are in a classroom or not – such as the ability
to stream video lectures from anywhere.
Streamlined onboarding to get people on and off the access points faster, so there’s no slowing down while moving about the
campus, and reduce IT burden.
Steps to Wireless NetworksAudit of how the current wired network is performing – where might it need to be enhanced or improved to support a mobile strategy? Where might it need to be re-architected?
Current level of wireless connectivity - how is it performing? Does it meet the future needs of the campus, and how might it be improved?
When planning the campus wireless network, the coverage and capacity must be taken into consideration: consult with stakeholders about how they expect to use the wireless network and access resources; what types of applications are in use; identify the OS and types of devices accessing the network, where a high density of users might be expected; and how people move around and use the physical space.
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Connecting Students and FacultyHow to make it easy, reliable and everywhere?
The key to wireless connectivity is having a suite of solutions and products that integrate to provide a single platform for the user. These include, but are not limited to:
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Latest generation wireless networkingA remote access solutionAccess control solutionsClient connectivity software that works across a wide range of mobile platformsCorporate mobile phone network and data plans
Connecting Students and FacultyHow to make it fast, secure, personal and cost-efficient?
To deliver these requirements, the solution must feature component parts including:
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Latest generation wireless technologiesA joined-up security strategy across network and client platforms – this should include an Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solutionA unified policy management solution, to ensure users get personalised and appropriate access based on who they are, where they are and the device type and method of access. This will help to keep costs downContextual attributes for controlling network traffic priority. This ensures wireless activities related to teaching and learning aren’t competing with off-hours endeavours and educational activities are priorities.
Get on the Wireless Mobility Highway
Building the Infrastructure
Delivering end-to-end infrastructure, to get
data to its destination securely
& efficiently.
Building the Junctions
Connecting the networks together.
Fast Track for DataEnsure your most
important data reaches its
destination by prioritising important
network traffic.
Intrusion ProtectionVisibility and
monitoring of users and their devices, to prevent unwanted threats and rogue
network access.
Safeguarding Confidential DataMoving sensitive, confidential data
securely and safely across the network.
Securing the Network
Control the access to your network and see how it is being used
to effectively combat any threats.
Real Time Location Services
Automatically locate people, assets,
inventory and other objects using the wireless network.
Maintenance & Support
Dedicated resources to rectify network
issues. Optimise and maintain to ensure
reliability.
About PervasivePervasive delivers solutions that meet the ever-increasing need to be connected everywhere at any time. We put mobility first, creating a network infrastructure that caters for diverse business needs.
Customers and employees want connectivity now; in the digital world you need to be able to take the office with you. We aim to create connectivity experiences that are faster, more reliable, more personalised, highly available and secure in today’s mobile world to match an organisation’s specific mobility requirements.
For more information, contact us:
www.pervasive.co.uk
0870 004 0002