Quinnipiac University is upgrading its telecommunications system to allow students and instructors to seamlessly link their various computers and mobile devices to the Hamden school’s information network and each other on its three campuses, officials say.
The Q’s long-time wireless hardware vendor, Aruba Networks Inc., of Sunnyvale, Calif., said the Hamden private college is investing an unspecified sum in Aruba’s Mobile Virtual Enterprise (MOVE) wireless setup and related hardware to allow 20,000 wireless and land-line connections daily to The Q’s data grid.
The upgrades will be made to all of the schools instruction halls and dorms on its two Hamden campuses and a third in North Haven. Aruba specified no timetable for completing the work.
Brian Kelly, The Q’s director of information security, said the school is investing “a couple of hundred thousands” in 300 new Aruba switches – 50 of which are in the new medical-school complex in North Haven.
Its state-of-the-art Frank H. Netter MD medical building, due to open in March, is equipped to leverage the wireless MOVE architecture for videoconferencing, video streaming and interactive class lectures, authorities said.
