unplugged and live using wlan on campus to improve staff and student productivity
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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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Brent PienaarIT Manager
Dubai Women’s College (Higher Colleges of Technology), UAE
Unplugged and Live Using WLAN on Campus to Improve Staff and Student Productivity
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A Wireless Story…
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• 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
What you‘re going to hear…
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“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
Meeting Business DemandChanges Required
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Admin10%
Technology20%
Curriculum70%
Meeting Business DemandRestructuring the Curriculum
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• 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
Meeting Business DemandObjectives Given
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Year Windows Apple% of
Students
Oct 2000 220 30 13%
Oct 2001 595 50 45%
Oct 2003 980 30 85%
Oct 2003 700 30 100%
The DWC Laptop Initiative
Business Drivers
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Business Drivers
I feel that using the laptop is improving my learning.
92%
Student Feedback
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• 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
Business DriversThe Results
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< 3 hrs3%
> 12 hrs29%
7 - 12 hrs36%
3 - 7 hrs32%
Business DriversHours per day students spent using a laptop
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DWC Experiences
• 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
Overview
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• Novices - information sharing
• Cannot happen overnight
• Power and Cables
• Convenience
• Laptop Configuration
• Signal Strength - coverage
• Site Survey - placement of APs
DWC ExperiencesChallenges
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• 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
DWC ExperiencesSuccess Factors
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Success Factors
DWC Experiences
• 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
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Wireless Networking
Cost
Access Points
Integrated Wireless Cards
Battery Life
Antennas
Standards
Security
Bandwidth
Watching the technologies changeA never ending story
Wired Infrastructure
Laptop Chipset
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Watching the technologies changeAdditional Costs
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Wireless Networking
Cost
Access Points
Integrated Wireless Cards
Battery Life
Antennas
Standards
Security
Bandwidth
Watching the technologies changeA never ending story
Wired Infrastructure
Laptop Chipset
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Watching the technologies changeSecurity
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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”
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• Campus expansion– Gymnasium– Auditorium + Lecture Hall– Student Activity Center– Additional Classrooms
• Wireless everywhere– 200+ APs
• Tri-band functionality• Increased security• Mobility and ‘other’ devices
Future Plans
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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/dub
ai.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
Brent PienaarMIS, CPA, CISSP, CISA
IT Manager
Thank You!