Pervasive Campus Connectivity: A Fundamental Need for Higher Education

Today's higher education institutions aren't only about knowledge and research. They're about offering students a superior experience and giving them opportunities to engage with new ideas, perspectives, and people. Colleges and universities are adopting a more competitive mindset and are seeking new strategies for attracting and retaining the best students and academic talent.

Pervasive connectivity has become more important than ever for higher education institutions that want to keep pace with new priorities and evolving mission statements. Pervasive connectivity means giving students, faculty, and staff real-time access to the resources, applications, and experts they need—on and off campus, at any time, and on their preferred devices.

Unleashing New Experiences with Connectivity Everywhere

Pervasive wired and wireless connectivity—enabled by a fully manageable, secure network infrastructure—opens the door to endless possibilities in higher education.

Creating a Transformative Learning Experience

For students and instructors, offering seamless, high-performance connectivity everywhere creates a foundation for new learning experiences and improved access to people and information. From digital classrooms and rich media lectures to remote collaboration and learning models, pervasive connectivity allows institutions reimagine instruction and research.

Attracting and Keeping Students and Employees

Expectations are changing, and today's students, instructors, and administrators want to enjoy the same digital experiences they've become accustomed to off campus. Pervasive connectivity provides convenient access to services for everyone in the campus community from anywhere on campus—from dorms to classrooms to offices—helping organizations attract and retain the best students and employees.

Establishing a Secure, Manageable Foundation

Delivering pervasive connectivity across educational environments can be challenging. However, with a converged network, institutions can deliver the connectivity their campuses need and simplify operations to make campus networks more manageable, efficient, and secure.

Simplifying Network Complexity

Many universities and colleges have built up their IT infrastructures over time, accumulating a complex variety of equipment and platforms. Bringing these disparate elements together as part of converged networks that unify wireless, wired, and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies can help simplify network complexity dramatically. With a single, consistent network infrastructure, IT teams can take advantage of new capabilities and improved operational efficiency that mixed environments can't match.

Unifying Management Processes and Organizations

A converged network platform also creates an opportunity for colleges and universities to streamline management tasks. All too often, higher education OT (operations technology) and IT departments are saddled with siloed processes and limited collaboration. A unified infrastructure with a common management platform enables these departments to work together more efficiently, stay in sync on priorities, share information, boost efficiency, and reduce costs.

Strengthening Security and Compliance

Digital transformation has introduced new security challenges to every industry, and higher education is no exception. A converged network platform can provide the visibility and automation that institutions need to enhance security and compliance for users and devices at scale. For example, institutions can automate the provisioning of encryption keys for users and devices to help safeguard diverse endpoints.

Delivering Pervasive Connectivity with RUCKUS

The network must extend to every environment on campus to provide the pervasive connectivity that today's colleges and universities need. RUCKUS understands the unique requirements and challenges that higher education professionals face and offers a comprehensive set of access points (APs), switches, and AI-driven management solutions to extend connectivity everywhere it's needed.

Indoor and outdoor wireless APs—together with high-performance switches—enable students, faculty, and staff to connect to the resources and applications they need while AI-powered administrative capabilities empower IT departments to manage the converged network environment through a unified dashboard.

RUCKUS solutions are built with scalability in mind, enabling colleges and universities to extend their network as needed while keeping costs and limited budgets under control.

Take a Closer Look

RUCKUS Networks understands the challenges that higher education IT professionals contend with. Our broad portfolio of products and services empowers higher education institutions with the pervasive connectivity required to address today's challenges—and be ready for tomorrow's. Explore how RUCKUS can help you deliver a more connected, engaging experience across the campus community. Visit us online.

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