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The University's new switched gig network with wireless access,
which was featured in a series of national news stories this summer,
has attracted numerous technology companies interested in partnership.
The latest is NETGEAR.
As classes begin this fall, faculty, staff and students will
find all of CWRU's residence halls, Greek houses and a growing
number of academic centers on the world's first campus-wide switched-gig
network. The new gigabit to desktop fiber-optic system will provide
high-performance networking to 16,000 campus computers at speeds
about a thousand times faster than the typical home broadband
network and 10 times faster than the 100MB networks found in many
businesses and universities.
Faculty, staff and students can make the most of the new network
with easy, affordable access to adapters and fiber cards made
possible by a new four-year partnership with NETGEAR.
NETGEAR will provide CWRU with fiber gigabit ethernet adapters,
PCI copper gigabit adapters and copper gigabit ethernet adapters
at a reduced cost, as well as keep the University abreast of new
technology developed over the course of the partnership. The entire
product line from NETGEAR will be available to the CWRU community
later this fall.
"The top priority for the University's connectivity is to provide
faculty and students a world-class, robust network to attract
advanced research and to enhance the learning environment," said
Lev Gonick, CWRU's vice president of information services and
chief information officer. "The combination of NETGEAR's enterprise-class
equipment delivered at an affordable price and our new four-year
partnership that will allow us to grow with their technology as
well as collaborate on R&D, make NETGEAR the perfect fit for the
University's networking needs as well as networking needs for
home and personal use."
With the new Cisco switched-gig network being implemented by
Sprint and NETGEAR adapters, faculty, staff and students can now
do things from their desktops that they were never able to do
before, like take control of sophisticated instrumentation in
engineering labs and watch dozens of channels of high definition
video with education content. Other new education applications
will include virtualization and high-performance interaction in
such diverse areas as Alzheimer's research, emergency preparedness
for health care professionals and public safety.
CWRU is also working with NETGEAR to extend the switched gig
network to the University's affiliates in University Circle, including
the Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Institute
of Art, Cleveland Institute of Music, University Hospitals of
Cleveland and the Cleveland Clinic.
"NETGEAR is pleased to team with Case Western Reserve University
to deliver the highest-performance networking environment available
today," said Patrick Lo, chief executive officer and chairman
of the board of NETGEAR. "NETGEAR is excited to partner with a
world-class institution that truly understands the applications
and benefits of this technology. Together we are leading the field
in delivering gigabit direct to the desktop."
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