Seamless connections

With technology being a crucial aspect of education today, institutions need to use the right strategies to provide an alwayson learning environment

Across all levels of education, digital devices are proliferating both in the classroom and among students and staff. All these endpoints, therefore, need to interact seamlessly with each other to create smarter learning environments. This puts immense pressure on the networks, both in terms of ongoing performance and maintenance. Therefore, ensuring appropriate bandwidth to manage increased traffic, support higher device densities, and enforce access policies automatically is essential.

Datadriven sions:

To improve resource allocation for student success, institutions are turning to datainformed decisionmaking to increase enrollments, transform academics, and improve graduation rates. As networking infrastructure continuously collects user

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and device behaviour data, it can be an institution’s most comprehensive data source.

Cybersecurity:

With students, faculty, and staff regularly accessing resources and systems through digital devices, the potential for cybersecurity attacks is high. Today’s threats may not just involve criminal activities, but also unintentional sharing of user credentials internally or inadequate security practices by suppliers.

With the pandemic and other societal forces spotlighting disparities in access to technology, education institutes are working to address digital equity in various ways. Unsurprisingly, wired and wireless networking infrastructure plays a critical role in closing the digital

Digital equity:

Admissions open BenGurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel, invites applications for its twoyear M.Sc. programme in Mechanical Engineering. The programme offers two tracks: a thesisbased

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Success strategies

The cornerstone of facilitating students’ academic achievements for IT departments commences with network management, emphasising the continual improvement of network efficiency and security. Numerous key technologies and strategies can provide the right set of advantages:

Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations or AIOps provides AIpowered insights to facilitate network troubleshooting and optimisation, workflow automation, and endpoint profiling for enhanced security. Automating these tasks can help IT departments optimise their time and resources, enabling them to pursue highervalue stra

AIOps:

research one and a general one without a thesis, all in English. Eligibility: B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering or a closely related field from an accredited institution with a minimum GPA of 80/100 according to the Israeli grading system. A TOEFL score of at least 85/120 or equivalent in an internationally recognized tegic tasks.

NaaS ture: infrastruc

How does an IT team deliver seamless, secure, alwayson connectivity while minimising the financial impact? They should consider a networkasaservice (NaaS) model, which can accelerate an organisation’s modernisation while consuming minimal resources or budget, as it is flexible and easily scalable.

Cloudmanaged location awareness:

Achieving institutional objectives around datadriven decisionmaking requires IT teams to solve several challenges such as collecting, storing, and accessing data, obtaining actionable insights, and maintaining data privacy. However, advanced networking solutions can help by allowing the gathering of utilisa

English proficiency exam. ThIS requirement is waived for applicants who received their B.Sc. degree in English. GRE is recommended but not required. An international applicant should contact a potential advisor from the Department of ME before applying. Details at the Research Portal tion data and including highly accurate location awareness for collecting situational information. This is further analysed in the cloud for fast ondemand access.

To secure data in complex academic environments, educational organisations must go beyond a perimeterbased firewall and deploy networking solutions with security engineered into every aspect of their wired, wireless, and WAN infrastructure. This involves using Zero Trust and secure access service edge (SASE) frameworks, which provide stronger defence across an entire IT stack, including users, connected devices, applications, network services, compute, and storage platforms. A Zero Trust network can automatically determine what devices are being connected and provide the appropriate level of access control based on preordained policies.

Thus, regardless of the priorities, modernising networking infrastructure is a vital for an educational institution to provide its students, faculty and others a secure, seamless, connected, and alwayson learning environment.

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The writer is Director India at HPE Aruba Networking. (https://cris.bgu.ac.il/) https://bitly.ws/3gYIx

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