But wireless broadband isn’t only about high-speed access. All around the world, educational institutions 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
• improving productivity of faculty, administration and staff
• controlling costs and eliminating inefficiencies

Higher education-specific benefits include:

Ubiquitous Campus-Wide Connectivity
Wireless solutions make it easier, quicker and more affordable to provide students, faculty and staff with broadband Internet access from virtually everywhere on campus – indoors or out. The result is speedier access to educational research, online library repositories, learning portals, Course Management Systems, and faster campus-wide communications in emergency situations. Motorola’s 802.11n technology is designed to provide the scalability and performance in dense user environments that are critical in higher education.

IT Security Solutions
Over half of higher education environments have experienced security breaches including unauthorized modification of grades and the exposure of confidential student records. Through DES and AES over-the-air encryption standards, wireless broadband solutions help colleges and universities manage an enormous number of individual profiles and access policies to maximize network security while supporting open creation and information sharing.

Video Surveillance Security Solutions
Premise and property protection, data center security and personal safety are among the highest priorities on campuses of all sizes. A high-speed Motorola network enables state-of-the-art IP-based video surveillance solutions that provide real-time video streaming visibility into every inch of the campus. Applications include remote monitoring of perimeters, parking lots, dormitories and other hard to reach and heavily used campus locations, as well as mobile access to surveillance video.

Emergency communications
The ability to reach all faculty, administrators and security personnel simultaneously through a group push-to-talk – with Motorola two-way radios or walkie-talkie style calls to Voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) smartphones. These solutions enable administrators, campus security and more to rapidly ‘spread the word’ during emergencies. Motorola provides the highly reliable and pervasive backbone required to support a broad range of emergency communications.

Mobile Campus Security
Mobility allows campus police to carry a mobile handheld computer that provides access to student information to aid with access control and disciplinary action. In addition campus police can quickly verify vehicle stickers, issue citations, and check for past violations— for example, to help identify a repeat offender who parks in areas designated for faculty or emergency vehicles.

Administrative Productivity
Motorola’s solutions help improve administrative productivity and reduce costs by enabling advanced applications such as managing assets from textbooks to laboratory equipment, automating work tickets to help facilities personnel work more efficiently, remote wireless network troubleshooting to improve uptime and reduce IT support costs, and providing staff members mobile access to voice and data around campus without recurring cellular charges.

Contingency Planning
In the event of a natural or man-made disaster situation, a Motorola wireless broadband network enables colleges and universities to build redundant systems and develop contingency plans for maintaining continuous communications with faculty, staff, students, parents, government agencies and first responders.

Helping Colleges and Universities Optimize Learning and Operational Productivity
Delivering wireless coverage both indoor and outdoors Motorola offers unsurpassed expertise in designing and deploying wireless broadband networks in virtually every type of campus and off-campus environment.

We offer our customers comprehensive network management tools and support services to help them meet and master the formidable challenges of today’s higher education marketplace. In addition to wireless infrastructure, our comprehensive product offering includes a wide variety of rugged handheld mobile computers, two-way radios, bar code scanners and business smart phones; fixed handheld and mobile RFID readers.