Going wireless. (Feedback).When I received the April issue of University Business with the "Rethinking Wireless" and "The ABCs of ASPs" on the front page, I expected to see some of the leading initiatives at Drexel highlighted. Obviously I was disappointed to see no mention of Drexel. Drexel was the first major university in the U.S. to deploy a 100 percent, fully wireless (inside and out) campus in the U.S., in the fall of 2000. In fact, the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR ECAR East Central Area Reliability Coordination Agreement ECAR European College of Animal Reproduction ECAR Economy Car ECaR Every Child a Reader (UK) ECAR European Campaign for the Freedom of the Automotive Parts and Repair Market ) did a major case study on the Drexel wireless rollout. On the ASP front, I believe we are probably the only "institution" to have an active ASP strategy. We are currently providing services to the Drexel College of Medicine (an independent affiliate) as well as Cabrini, Rosemont, and Neumann colleges Neumann College is a private Roman Catholic, coeducational college in the Franciscan tradition, located in Aston, Pennsylvania, USA. It was founded as Our Lady of Angels College with 115 students in 1965 by the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia. . JOHN A. BIELEC, Vice President/CIO Drexel University Drexel University, at Philadelphia, Pa.; coeducational; founded 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, opened 1892, chartered 1894 as Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry. It was renamed Drexel Institute of Technology in 1936 and gained university status in 1970. Philadelphia, PA I enjoyed reading your recent article on Wireless LANs A local area network that transmits over the air typically in the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz unlicensed frequency band. It does not require line of sight between sender and receiver. Wireless base stations (access points) are wired to an Ethernet network and transmit a radio frequency over an area and was delighted to see the University of Maryland's experience highlighted. However, I was concerned [that you] wrote that "the school's IT department actually has been able to make money off the wireless LAN" and that the lesson learned is that "wireless is a moneymaker." In fact, that is not true. While departments and colleges do pay a monthly maintenance fee and an installation fee per access point, that simply covers the cost of our labor and the hardware, which includes the access point, power injector, and antennas. There is no charge to use the wireless network. The university's mission is to provide opportunities for learning, discovery, and research, not to create profits. The real lessons we have learned (and reported to you) are that wireless is extremely popular and is becoming an important requirement for faculty, staff, and students when choosing institutions. MARK HENDERSON This article is about the lighting designer Mark Henderson. For the snow plow driver in the Snow Plow Game, see History of the New England Patriots. Mark Henderson is a Tony Award winning lighting designer. , Asst. VP/COO, Office of Information Technology University of Maryland University of Maryland can refer to:
College Park, MD We apologize if we were misleading. In her interview, Leah Goldman told our writer, "Charging departments for access enables us to recoup recoup To sell an asset at a price sufficient to recover the original outlay or to offset a previous loss. our costs." We understood this as a moneymaking (as opposed to solely a cost-generating) proposition--but that shouldn't imply it was a profit-making one. |
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