Superintendent Matt Akin used federal funding to make the entire town of Piedmont, AL, wireless as a way to increase equity for students, about half of whom did not have Internet access at home.
Results from the Consortium for School Networking’s 2nd Annual E-rate and Infrastructure Survey reveal gaps in U.S. school districts’ broadband and technology infrastructure.
- By Christopher Piehler
- 10/20/14
Students have better wireless access to the Internet at home than at school, according to a new report.
A Southern California school district with 6,000 students has gone public with the five-year contract it has signed to obtain the use of a 10-gigabit fiber optic wide area network (WAN) to replace its previous 1Gbps fiber optic Ethernet WAN. Another district in the region, Garden Grove Unified, signed a similar agreement in 2013.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 10/08/14
Netgear has revealed details about its new 802.11n weatherproof outdoor access point, the WND930, which is designed for K-12 schools.
The ShareLink 200 is designed to enable students and teachers to share content to a central screen from their personal devices.
- By Christopher Piehler
- 10/02/14
Apple DEP streamlines MDM for institutionally owned devices, and integration with MobileEther adds an additional layer of security by transparently binding each device with user-specific Web and application security policies.
- By Christopher Piehler
- 09/22/14
Proximity-based mobile interactions are moving out of the realm of science fiction and into the education, healthcare and retail markets.
Software-defined networking is gaining momentum and is expected to experience a massive increase in adoption by data centers and enterprise networks, according to a new forecast from the International Data Corp.
As new Wi-Fi standard 802.11ac begins to make inroads into schools, Fluke Networks is introducing updated editions of its tools for designing and troubleshooting wireless networks.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/11/14