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It seems like just yesterday IU’s technology-driven focus offered us bragging rights as one of the nation’s “most wired” universities. Now, IU has cut the wires and the accolades are still pouring in, this time as the “most un-wired” university.
Intel Corp. ranked IU Bloomington first place in its second annual Most Unwired College Campuses survey. Access to the Internet, without a traditional wired connection, means the IU community can log-on in dorm rooms, libraries or outdoors.
“We went from a sparse wireless-enabled campus to a broadly wireless-enabled campus in about a year,” said Brian Voss, associate vice president of telecommunications at IU in an interview with Converge Online magazine. “We also employed a new technology that covered outdoor areas that worked like traditional access points inside. The outdoor technology covered broad, open areas where people frequent and allowed the connection to go through windows in buildings.”
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