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Colubris (News - Alert) Networks, a provider of intelligent wireless LANs (WLANs) for enterprises and service providers has announced that the University of the South has deployed Colubris, to provide wireless access for students, faculty and community members.

 

Announcing the latest deployment, the company stated that the University of the South selected Colubris because of its ease-of-use, guest access features, a variety of deployment options, and the ability to easily and cost-effectively upgrade to the new 802.11n wireless standard.

 

The University of the South has deployed 55 Colubris MultiService Access Points (MAPs) and one Colubris MultiService Controller (MSC), and plans to deploy up to 170 MAPs once the deployment is complete. The single-radio MAP- 320s and dual-radio MAP-330s offer plug and play and centralized management features. Company officials explained that once deployed, the MAPs automatically connects to the Colubris MSC (News - Alert), which allows the university to manage the access points from a single location.

 

More than 1,500 students are part of University of the South and it is located on 10,000 acres atop the Cumberland Plateau between Nashville and Chattanooga, Tenn.

 

“With our broad, sprawling campus and stone buildings that are more than a century old, it's easy for our infrastructure costs to skyrocket. We needed to find a wireless solution that provided us with several deployment options to contain these costs,” Geno Schlichting, communications specialist at University of the South, said in a statement.

 

He added, “Colubris allowed us to cost-effectively deploy reliable wireless throughout our campus. In addition, the Colubris solution is easily upgradeable, which will be important as we look to explore the capabilities of the new 802.11n wireless standard in the coming year.”

 

Schlichting pointed out that Colubris provided the university with flexible traffic processing capabilities that allowed the school to centralize certain WLAN traffic for security, while other traffic is forwarded by intelligent access points at the edge of the network for optimum performance, and the company also offered single-radio or dual-radio access points for maximum coverage across campus.

 

Over the next year, the University of the South plans to broaden its use of the Colubris solution. In addition to deploying the MAPs at additional points throughout campus, the school is also planning to deploy Colubris' 802.11n access point, the MAP-625, at its new science center, scheduled to open for the 2008 school year. At present, The University is also evaluating the Colubris RF Manager to detect security vulnerabilities and is planning to start using the Colubris Visitor Management Tool (VMT) to provide guest access.

 

 

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