Higher Education in Motion

The Cisco Unified Wireless Network brings high-performance wireless to your students, faculty, and staff anytime, anywhere on campus--both indoors and out--so you can:

• Improve campus security
• Enhance learning
• Streamline operations
• Advance productivity
• Promote collaboration

Cost-effectively deliver flexible, scalable high-speed wireless and deliver the right applications, using the right policies, to the right user at the right time. Meet and exceed your mobility requirements with the Cisco Unified Wireless Network.

Why Cisco?

Cisco is the market leader and vendor of choice for empowering colleges and universities to meet and exceed their mobility requirements. Cisco has an extensive portfolio of mobility products to cover all areas of the campus from parking lots and classrooms, to dorms, stadiums, administration offices, student centers, outdoor areas, and research facilities. An end-to-end Cisco wireless solution delivers numerous advantages:

• Cisco is the only wireless vendor to deliver integrated mobility applications through an open, extensible platform that supports Wi-Fi, Ethernet, cellular, and WiMAX.
• Cisco offers the industry's broadest array of business-grade mobility services, including voice over WLAN, context-aware mobility, location services, mobile intelligent roaming, adaptive wireless IPS, secure client manager, and secure guest access.
• Cisco is the established leader in next-generation, 802.11n technology with the Cisco Aironet® 1250 Series Access Point, serving as the platform against which all other manufacturers' access points are tested for compatibility by the worldwide Wi-Fi Alliance.
• Cisco performs stringent platform, client, and application interoperability testing through the Cisco Compatible Extensions program, the Cisco AssureWave program, Intel, and our collaboration with third-party application providers to deliver significant power, performance, and security benefits for higher education institutions operating with mixed-client environments.
• Cisco's scalable solution includes built-in system planning and configuration tools with reliable, dynamic RF management that is self-configuring, self-healing, and self-optimizing. These features significantly minimize the operations and capital costs associated with managing and deploying local and remote campus wireless networks.

Cisco is the only wireless vendor to deliver true enterprise-class security from Layer 1 to Layer 7 that includes a powerful intrusion prevention system (IPS), world-class firewall, threat assimilation, threat mitigation and Network Access Control (NAC).