China Telecom has helped Luzhou Medical College in Sichuan, China, deploy an extensive campus Wi-Fi network.
The two key campuses at the college, Zhongshan and Chengbei, have installed a combination of Ruckus Wireless indoor and outdoor APs, centrally managed with Ruckus controllers.
Covering 170,000 square meters of classroom and office areas, and 100,000 square meters of dormitory buildings, the college’s sprawling new network can provide internet access to more than 15,000 faculty and students who are increasingly using multiple mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
Luzhou Medical College, located in Luzhou city in Sichuan Province, consists of two main campuses – the Zhongshan and North campuses, covering a total of 327,547 square meters.
The college’s network center initially purchased unmanaged, consumer-grade wireless Access Points (APs), and connected them to the Ethernet ports in each dormitory room to provide wireless access for multiple PC users. However, the center began to receive complaints about frequent dropped signals and unstable connections and the center could not locate the root of the problems.
Meanwhile, smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices have become increasingly popular with students in the last two years, highlighting the growing BYOD trend in educational institutions around the world. The sheer quantity of mobile devices operating in the same physical area is much more dense than that of desktop PCs and laptops.