Win Wi-Fi: contest can get your school unwired.Does this sound familiar? You want to be competitive and provide students and faculty with the latest in wireless technology, but your budget is stretched thinner than Callista Flockhart on the Atkins diet Atkins Diet Definition The Atkins diet is a high-protein, high-fat, and very low-carbohydrate regimen. It emphasizes meat, cheese, and eggs, while discouraging foods such as bread, pasta, fruit, and sugar. It is a form of ketogenic diet. . The Higher Education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. Wireless Access Consortium (www.hewac.org) may be able to help. HEWAC, in conjunction and WiSE Technologies (www.wisezone.net) is sponsoring a contest in which 10 U.S. colleges will receive a grant of a campus wireless network with free equipment and installation. One of the 10 colleges will also win three years of free network management services and broadband connection See broadband and wireless broadband. . "The ability to realize the full potential of wireless access is only reached when most of the campus is unwired," said Thomas Muleta mu·le·ta n. A short red cape suspended from a hollow staff, used by a matador to maneuver a bull during the final passes before a kill. [Spanish, small mule, crutch, muleta, diminutive of , co-founder and chairman of HEWAC. "This ability should not be limited to just a few well-funded institutions of higher learning higher learning n. Education or academic accomplishment at the college or university level. ." Schools with lots of laptop-toting students, but without the money for a total wireless network will benefit most ham the grant, says Muleta. Visit the HEWAC Web site for details. |
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