Southampton Solent University offers its 16,000 students a variety of courses including Masters Degrees, PhDs and short courses. University status was awarded in 2005 and the University is well known for the distinctive way it links together student learning, applied research and service to business and the community.
Southampton Solent University boasts some of the best facilities of any University in the United Kingdom and include three fully equipped HD TV studios, a Watersports Centre, sports science laboratories and an award winning conference centre.
The University network covers three major sites and six major Student Residences complexes with over 2,300 rooms, and provides services for 16,000 students and 1000 staff. For Southampton Solent University, it is crucial to have a networking partner who understands the unique requirements of the academic environment such as the increasing demands placed upon University IT Departments to provide wireless services to students, the need for secure access across the campus and the requirement for a high performance network. NETconnection Systems is well placed to provide flexible solutions and services to provide for their campus environment.
“Universities face considerable challenges in providing a secure but easily accessed wire and wireless environment for both staff and students, so they can connect their own devices to the campus network and have access to the resources needed to support their academic requirements. We first started working with NETconnection Systems 10 years ago when we began researching our options for a replacing our core networking infrastructure” says the Head of ICT. “We opted to work with NETconnection Systems because they understood the requirements of an academic environment and they were able to offer a technology solution which provided a solid foundation which could be built on in future years.”
NETconnection Systems has continually implemented solutions that have assisted the University in meeting the increasing demands placed upon it. This has included a high performing resilient 10 Gb network and a campus wide 802.11 wireless solution.
Southampton University have worked with NETconnection Systems to provide infrastructure solutions and services across the Campus. Together, they have ensured that staff and students have access to a secure, resilient network and the University has confidence in the knowledge that NETconnection Systems are providing high quality maintenance services to support the infrastructure.
“The network that has been developed has proven to be ultra reliable and we have felt very confident in upgrading the network knowing that we can rely on NETconnection Systems to provide the technical design enhancements needed, backed up with a full implementation support service.”
