Carnegie Mellon U selects Motorola to unwire its Silicon Valley Campus

The Enterprise Mobility business of Motorola, Inc. announced that Carnegie Mellon University has deployed Motorola’s enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) infrastructure to provide seamless mobile connectivity indoors and outdoors to faculty and students. Motorola has the industry’s most complete indoor and outdoor WLAN portfolio to enable the wireless enterprise.

The storied academic institution, based in Pittsburgh, has been offering classes in Silicon Valley since 2002. The Mountain View, Calif., campus specializes in graduate programs in software engineering, software and management, security, mobile technology, and engineering and technology innovation and management.

“Our Silicon Valley campus offers programs focused on mobility issues in business, and this new wireless platform will give our students, faculty, and staff the seamless connectivity they need to adapt to next-generation networks,” said Pradeep K. Khosla, dean of Carnegie Mellon’s College of Engineering.

Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley installed the Motorola RFS7000, the industry’s only WLAN switch designed to integrate Wi-Fi, mesh, RFID and other emerging RF technologies, in combination with 802.11a/b/g AP300 access ports (APs), to provide wireless Internet access to students and faculty across the entire campus. Built on Motorola’s Wi-NG architecture, the RFS7000 enables campus-wide roaming across subnets, improves failover capabilities, enhances quality of service, increases voice capability and provides superior security.

The wireless switch also provides Carnegie Mellon University West with a unified RF platform, enabling the wireless network to grow over time by adding additional RF technologies.

Carnegie Mellon will also integrate the Motorola WLAN technology into its Silicon Valley classrooms, utilizing it as a mobility platform for emerging wireless technologies and next-generation networks.

“Motorola has extensive expertise in building seamless indoor and outdoor wireless networks — from a 12th century castle in Ireland that is a tourist and business conference destination to large distribution centers and new construction sites,” said Sujai Hajela, vice president and general manager of Enterprise WLAN, Motorola Enterprise Mobility business.