Digital Communities for Public Sector

Wireless campus from IBM and Cisco utilizes IP-based converged networking technologies for voice, video and data to help you implement, support and continuously enhance wireless services across your campus. The solution offers your institution a cost-effective high-bandwidth network that is capable of supporting media-rich teaching, collaboration and research. It provides robust cellular service and wireless signals both indoors and outdoors, across your campus, and even to student living areas outside of campus.

This solution is built on an open infrastructure to offer opportunities to utilize new technologies such as radio frequency identification. We can help you assess your current wireless environment, plan how to address new business models, design a wireless network to support your educational goals and deploy that network in a phased approach to meet your most pressing requirements first.

Benefits of the Wireless Campus for Education offering from Cisco and IBM include:

• Deliver services to campus constituents that enhance their ability to communicate through wireless devices, promoting more frequent and effective interaction between university students, staff and faculty.
• Future-proof the campus network with open standard technologies that enable new and evolving devices to integrate with your existing infrastructure.
• Focus on the integration of essential public safety integration, such as video surveillance, across the campus.
• Differentiate your institution by offering the cream of the crop in technology enablement to thrive in this competitive marketplace.
• Provide more avenues and tools for learning such as video on demand and instant access to a plethora of materials from virtually anywhere on campus.
• Minimize the time, cost and hassle to plan and deploy a solution with the help of experienced partners with proven track records.
• Increase the value of the relationship between the university and the surrounding community by facilitating communication and collaboration.

Contact your local IBM or Cisco representative to learn how you can implement an IBM and Cisco Digital Communities Solution