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- Washington State University Uses FrontPage 2000 to Build and Manage Site
- In order to attract prospective students to its campus, Washington State University WSU Spokane relies heavily upon its Web site. Few years ago, the campus's Internet presence consisted of piecemeal and disjointed information, most of it designed by student contractors using a wide variety of development tools. As more and...
- Tags: Microsoft FrontPage, Washington State University, Microsoft FrontPage 2000, Campus, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Productivity, Internet
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- University Improves Instruction With Range of Easy-to-Distribute Software
- Washington State University WSU was having difficulty providing its students and faculty with the developer software necessary for a high-quality education. In many of its courses, WSU used technologies from Microsoft and other software companies. But those tools were costly, and students were limited to using them only in university...
- Tags: Washington State University, University, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management
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- Optimal Cluster Association in Two-Tiered Wireless Sensor Networks
- This paper studies the two-tiered Wireless Sensor Network WSN architecture and proposes the optimal cluster association algorithm for it to maximize the overall network lifetime. A two-tiered WSN is formed by number of small Sensor Nodes SNs, powerful Application Nodes ANs, and Base-Stations (BSs, or gateways). SNs capture, encode, and...
- Tags: Network, Washington State University, Sensor, Wireless Sensor Network, Networking
- White papers 2007-04-13
- Time-Optimum Packet Scheduling for Many-to-One Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
- This paper studies the WSN application scenario with periodical traffic from all sensors to a sink. This paper presents a time-optimum and energy-efficient packet scheduling algorithm and its distributed implementation. With a few adjustments, it then shows that the algorithm also achieves time-optimum scheduling in heterogeneous scenarios, where each sensor...
- Tags: Algorithm, Network, Washington State University, Sensor, Wireless, Engineering
- White papers 2006-09-06
- Detecting Packet Mishandling in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
- Mobile Ad-hoc networks are inherently prone to security attacks, with node mobility being the primary cause in allowing security breaches. This makes the network susceptible to Byzantyne faults with packets getting misrouted or dropped. This paper proposes solutions using an unobtrusive monitoring technique to locate malicious packet dropping. This technique...
- Tags: Technique, Mobile, Network, Washington State University, Productivity, Security
- White papers 2006-08-29
- On Througput of Multipath Data Transmission Over Multihop Ad Hoc Networks
- Data transmission in ad hoc networks involves interactions between MAC-layer protocol and data forwarding along network-layer paths. These interactions have been shown to have significant effect on system performance. In this paper, their impact on the multipath data transmission system over multihop IEEE 802.11 MAC-based ad hoc networks is studied....
- Tags: IEEE 802.11, Washington State University, System Throughput, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2006-07-04
Additional Resources
- Avaya Case Study: University of Washington
- Founded in 1861, the University of Washington is one of the oldest state-supported institutions of higher education on the Pacific coast. The university wanted to adopt advanced technologies such as voice-over-IP VoIP to seamlessly integrate the University's voice and data network would increase overall efficiency and help to keep costs...
- Tags: University Of Washington, Avaya Inc., Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking
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- Avaya Case Study: Clayton State University
- Clayton State University is a comprehensive university in the Atlanta, Georgia metropolitan area with an enrollment of approximately 6,000 students. As a leading-edge technology university, Clayton State needed a state-of - the-art telephony solution that would allow the University to handle the rapid enrollment growth that the University expects over...
- Tags: Avaya Inc., Clayton State University, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Ethernet, VOIP, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Networking
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- Public Safety Agency Increases Crime Lab Investigators' Service Effectiveness and Responsiveness
- The Washington State Patrol is a public safety agency with oversight of traditional law enforcement, fire response, toxicology, and criminal investigations across the state. In 2003, Washington State Patrol recognized that its voice systems required significant upgrades. The existing phone systems also lacked productivity features such as voice mail -...
- Tags: Network, Agency, Cisco Systems Inc., Washington State Patrol, Networking
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- BSQUARE Helps Create Custom Solution for University of Washington Medical Centers
- University of Washington Medical Centers in Seattle offer world-class specialty and primary care and is a nationally recognized teaching hospital for the UW School of Medicine. Seeking to improve access of healthcare practitioners to critical patient care information, University of Washington UW Medical Centers recently decided to replace aging UNIX...
- Tags: Bsquare, University Of Washington, Microsoft Windows, Development Tools, Microsoft Windows XP, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Human Resources
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- Washington State First to Provide a U.S. Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) - Compliant Enhanced Driver License
- With the implementation of the U.S. Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative WHTI program, U.S. citizens ultimately will need to provide WHTI-compliant proof of identity upon returning to the U.S. from western hemisphere nations. With Washington State Governor Christine Gregoire's sponsorship, and anticipating increased border crossings in 2010 with the upcoming Winter...
- Tags: U.S., Washington, Microsoft Corp.
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- Homeland Security: Risk Assessment - Conducting a Vulnerability Assessment
- In 2000, the University of Washington UW was invited by FEMA to participate in the Disaster Resistant University Project DRU, along with the University of California, Berkeley, Tulane University, Miami University, University of North Carolina/Wilmington, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The overall goal after identifying risks, and assessing vulnerabilities...
- Tags: Risk Assessment, University Of California At Berkeley, Vulnerability Assessment, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Homeland Security, Tools & Techniques, Security, Strategy, Government, Management
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- Novell Case Study: Central Washington University
- Central Washington University CWU is a comprehensive, four-year public university with nearly 9,000 full-time students and 1,400 faculty and staff. With the increasing popularity of the RIM BlackBerry, the IT staff at CWU needed the right solution to provide reliable and secure wireless access to e-mail. A long-time Novell GroupWise...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Central Washington University, Novell GroupWise, E-mail Servers, E-mail Clients, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Check Point Software Technologies Case Study: Saginaw Valley State University
- Saginaw Valley State University needed to secure the University's assets, while allowing the various campus groups the right type of web access to function efficiently. Saginaw Valley State University addressed both problems by implementing ZoneAlarm Pro for around-the-clock distributed security. The company believes a personal firewall placed on the majority...
- Tags: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Firewalls, Asset Management, Viruses And Worms, Security, Networking, Operational Planning, Business Operations
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- CWU Implements BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Novell GroupWise and Gives Its Mobile Users a New Level of Remote e-Mail Access
- Central Washington University CWU is a comprehensive, four-year public university with nearly 9,000 full-time students and 1,400 faculty and staff. Many faculty and staff at CWU travel frequently - whether out of state or to the state capital nearly three hours away - and want to make the most of...
- Tags: Novell Inc., RIM Blackberry Enterprise Server, Central Washington University, Microsoft Access, Mobile, Enterprise Server, RIM BlackBerry, E-mail, Novell GroupWise, E-mail Servers, E-mail Clients, Groupware, Handhelds, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
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- George Washington University Reduces Data Warehouse Development Costs Using Informatica
- The George Washington University, independent academic institution, was chartered by the Congress of the United States in 1821. Today, the University's enrollment totals more than 19,000 undergraduate and graduate students in nine schools. The company wanted to build a student data warehouse by consolidating all student information across all campuses....
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Informatica, George Washington University, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
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- Novell Case Study: Indiana State University
- Indiana State University has more than 11,000 students, nearly 600 faculty and more than 71,000 alumni throughout the world. The university wanted a solution to automatically allocate personal network storage for its 11,000 students, based on identity. To solve this Indiana State University began by automating identity management with Novell...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Indiana State University, Storage, Authentication/Encryption, Directory Services, Hardware, Security, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Dell Helps Missouri Southern State University Bring the World to Students
- Missouri Southern State University has grown to 5,500 students and more than 500 faculty and staff members. The university depends on up-to-date technology to help its students develop a far-reaching understanding of the world. The University wanted to upgrade from a mainframe computer that handled the university's academic and administrative...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., University, Missouri Southern State University, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2006-05-09
- Public Safety Agency Increases Crime Lab Investigators Service Effectiveness and Responsiveness
- The Washington State Patrol is a public safety agency with oversight of traditional law enforcement, fire response, toxicology, and criminal investigations across the state. The agency needed to improve service effectiveness of state crime labs and reduce support requirements for telephony system. The challenge was to enable interoperability with other...
- Tags: Agency, Cisco Systems Inc., Washington State Patrol, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Case studies 2005-11-01
- Centralizing and Streamlining Backup With Symantec Increases Reliability While Reducing Administration Time by Over 50 Percent
- Data protection was a problem at Washington and Lee University WLU. Washington and Lee University couldn't trust its backups until the school switched to Symantec. Now backup and restoration are virtually problem-free, backup administration time has been reduced by over 50 percent, and two weeks' worth of data resides in...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Administration, Backups
- Case studies 2007-03-14
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