Key contact: Julie Kercher-Updike, assistant to CIO
Key vendors: Cisco
Key metrics: 1200 Cisco AP's, coverage in 140 buildings, peak usage of 700 users, 200 unique users per day
Purdue, located in West LaFayette, Ind., is one of the nation's premier research universities with more than 38,000 students and 14,000 faculty and staff. Purdue Air Link (PAL), the university's wireless network service, comprises 1,200 Cisco 1200 access points. The wireless network provides service to more than 2,000 unique users every day, with peak utilization of more than 700 concurrent users. Security is provided using load-shared Cisco 3030 VPN concentrators. University management is pleased that the many interoperability and security issues posed by earlier ad hoc efforts to deliver wireless services have been largely resolved through the deployment of a pervasive, centrally managed system, but Kercher-Updike recommends that such large-scale deployments be pursued as a multiphase project.
Organization: San Antonio Community Hospital
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