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- Republic Polytechnic Creates a Progressive Educational Environment With the Cisco Wireless Network
- Singapore's fifth polytechnic, Republic Polytechnic RP, was established on 1 August 2002, and currently has 3,700 students enrolled in various three-year Diploma programs. Republic Polytechnic wanted to provide a unique mobile learning environment for a new generation of IT-savvy staff and students. The company deployed Cisco Core Network with Cisco...
- Tags: Network, Environment, Cisco Systems Inc., Wireless Network, Republic Polytechnic
- Case studies 2006-02-01
- Polytechnic Institute Improves Productivity and Communication With Instant Messaging
- Republic Polytechnic of Singapore provides students with courses in engineering, information and communications technology, applied science, and technology for the arts. Since the institute's inception, management wanted students, faculty, and staff to be able to communicate more easily with each other to enhance learning. Because students in most educational settings...
- Tags: IM, Student, Microsoft Corp., Instant Messaging, Microsoft Office, Internet, Online Communications, Office Suites, Software
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- Finnish Polytechnic Issues Student IDs Faster With New Identity Management Solution
- Turku Polytechnic, located in Southwest Finland, needed to cut the time taken to issue user IDs, passwords, roles, and access rights to its student and learning community. The polytechnic worked with other universities and institutions on the implementation of a new solution for the management of user data. By using...
- Tags: user-ID, Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Identity Integration Server, Identity Management
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- Republic Polytechnic in Singapore Upgrades Database to Support Problem-Based Learning
- Republic Polytechnic of Singapore is a new and unique higher education institution dedicated to delivering Problem-Based Learning PBL to students in a paperless environment. A rapid increase to 3,700 students was causing its IT infrastructure to experience high database usage spikes. The Polytechnic worked with Microsoft Services on a proof...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- At the Forefront of Educational Excellence, Republic Polytechnic Uses VMware for Innovative Problem-Based Learning
- Republic Polytechnic RP is Singapore's newest polytechnic school and first educational institution to fully adopt the advanced Problem-Based Learning PBL approach. As part of the PBL pedagogy, the school wanted to create a realistic environment for training its students. For the intrusion detection module, the school wanted to create a...
- Tags: VMware Inc., Republic Polytechnic, Intrusion Detection, Server Consolidation, It Services, Servers, Network Security, Security, Hardware, Networking
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- Student Is Hooked on Networking
- Ricardo comes from a small family that resides in Queens, New York. In September 1996 Ricardo arrived at Thomas A. Edison Polytechnic High School and felt frustrated because the only subjects offered were basic curricula. In September 1997, a Cisco Networking Academy was opened at Thomas A. Edison Polytechnic High...
- Tags: Network, Student, Cisco Systems Inc., Ricardo, Professional Development, Career
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- Case Study: Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, Georgia
- Southern Polytechnic is a special-purpose institution in the University System of Georgia, with about 3700 students. As a school dedicated to the study of technology, SPSU's Information Technology Division wanted to implement a campus-wide wireless LAN that would augment its existing 802.11 Ethernet wired network and meet the challenges presented...
- Tags: Security, IEEE 802.11, Meetinghouse, Georgia, Southern Polytechnic, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Wireless, LANs, Networking
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- Meetinghouse Data Communications Case Study: Southern Polytechnic State University
- Southern Polytechnic is a special-purpose institution in the University System of Georgia, with about 3700 students. As a school dedicated to the study of technology, SPSU's Information Technology Division wanted to implement a campus-wide wireless LAN that would augment its existing 802.11 Ethernet wired network and meet the challenges presented...
- Tags: Security, Meetinghouse, IEEE 802.1X, Southern Polytechnic, Wireless LANs, LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Ethernet, Networking
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- First Paperless Campus in Singapore Boosts Collaborative Learning, Saves Time and Costs
- Republic Polytechnic RP is Singapore's fifth polytechnic. RP has a student population growing from a current 5,600 to projected 13,000 by 2010. Although staff and students interact wirelessly through IP phones, Tablet PCs, email messaging and MSN Messenger Services for a student-centric learning environment, its growth demanded solutions for the...
- Tags: MSN, MSN Messenger, Student, Microsoft Corp., Singapore, Republic Polytechnic, Tablets, Entrepreneurship, Notebooks, Microsoft Office, VOIP, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Office Suites, Software, Telecommunications, Networking
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- Republic Polytechnic Is First Education Institute in Asia to Deploy Cisco Unified Wireless Network Implemented by Singapore Computer Systems
- The first educational institution in Singapore to adopt the Problem-Based Learning approach for all its diploma programmes, Republic Polytechnic has five schools offering nineteen diploma courses in Information & Communications Technology, Engineering, Applied Science, Technology for the Arts, and Sports, Health & Leisure. The institution believes that the use of...
- Tags: Education, Network, Institution, Cisco Systems Inc., Wireless Network, Republic Polytechnic, Wi-Fi, Wireless
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- New open source standards defined
- Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon,the Georgia Institute of Technology, Illinois,the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Stanford and Texas universities have united with for major IT suppliersto create a new set of common standards for the development of open source software. ItÂ’s hoped that these standards will serve toprotect open source software projects from...
- Tags: open source, open-source software, software, standards
- Blog posts 2005-12-27
- Meetinghouse Data Communications Case Study: Cal Poly Pomona
- Cal Poly Pomona opened in the fall of 1938 as the Voorhis Unit of the California Polytechnic School, with an all-male enrollment of 110 students. The Division of Instructional and Information Technology had implemented a Wireless LAN WLAN, but user acceptance has been slow in gaining momentum among its chief...
- Tags: Meetinghouse, WLAN, Cisco Systems Inc., University, Wireless LANs, LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Security, Networking
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- Digital Media School Deploys Render Farm Technology, Cuts Compute Runtime by Days
- Nanyang Polytechnic School of Interactive and Digital Media SIDM in Singapore offers digital media courses to local and overseas students. Students and researchers are required to render large amounts of animation and computer-generated images. Previously, it could take users up to one full day to render files on their individual...
- Tags: Digital Media School, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Case studies 2007-08-01
- California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) Chooses Webroot Spy Sweeper Enterprise to Protect Its Campus Network From Spyware
- Cal Poly is a nationally ranked, four-year, comprehensive public university located in San Luis Obispo, California. The goal for the IT staff was simple - eliminate Cal Poly's spyware problem. Like many higher education institutions today, Cal Poly's IT teams struggled to meet the day-to-day demands of its end users....
- Tags: California Polytechnic State University, Network, Webroot Software Inc., Cal Poly, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security
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- Adobe Systems Case Study: Virginia Tech
- Located in Blacksburg, Va., The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Virginia Tech is one of the largest universities in the state. Instructors who feel comfortable checking email and posting a syllabus online often find they lack the knowledge and skills to effectively integrate technology into their discipline-specific teaching and...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Virginia Tech, E-mail, Sales Force Management, Strategy, Online Communications, Sales, Management
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- British Columbia Institute of Technology Achieves Unified Digital Campus
- British Columbia Institute of Technology BCIT is Canada's premier polytechnic institute, providing students with job-ready skills from industry-experienced faculty. The challenge was to provide a robust, scalable database environment; enable logging and recovery capabilities; allow operation on multiple operating systems; and support SunGard Higher Education Enterprise Resource Planning ERP applications....
- Tags: SunGard Data Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Data Management
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- Oracle Case Study: California Polytechnic State University
- Cal Poly is a nationally ranked, four-year, comprehensive public university located in San Luis Obispo, California. The university faced the challenge of providing up to 3,000 students and faculty members with a fully featured and easy-to-use online calendar system, gradually extending the system to provide email and calendar capabilities to...
- Tags: California Polytechnic State University, Oracle Corp., Cal Poly, E-mail, Online Communications
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- Parallel Processing Applied to the Design of Concrete Encased Grounding Electrodes
- This work presents the authors' investigation regarding the application of parallel processing to the design of grounding systems, comprising concrete encased electrodes. The natural parallelism of the involved tasks and the large time-consuming characteristic of sequential processing for this kind of application justify the use of high performance computation. This...
- Tags: Electrode, Sao Paulo, Parallel Processing
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Experiments create 500 GB DVD
- Recording using microholographics has created a 500 GB DVD disc. The Register reported researchers at the Technical University of Berlin created the fifty-layer disc in cooperation with other European savants, including those at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and the Marche Polytechnic University. Their project...
- Tags: DVD-R, Disc, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Bartley K7AAY
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
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