{"id":58567,"date":"2021-02-11T11:21:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T17:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=58567"},"modified":"2021-02-11T11:21:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T17:21:27","slug":"fhsu-expands-broadband-service-around-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=58567","title":{"rendered":"FHSU expands broadband service around campus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students, faculty, staff and visitors to Fort Hays State University will no longer have to get near a building to receive quality WiFi service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aided by funds from the CARES Act\noriginated by the U.S. Department of Treasury during the pandemic, FHSU\nexpanded its broadband service to include a large outdoor area surrounding\ncampus academic and administrative buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The expansion gives students avenues to\nremain close to broadband access while taking online and hybrid classes while\nalso maintaining social distancing practices. There now is a seamless\ntransition from indoor to outdoor WiFi connection without dropping any calls or\nvideos.&nbsp; Students or faculty can also access the internet while sitting in\ntheir vehicle in designated parking lots. The new service will benefit faculty\nwishing to hold classes outdoors, especially during the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis project was very timely, because\nour vendor \u2013 Aruba Networks \u2013 had just announced the release of its outdoor\nWiFi 6 equipment,\u201d said Derek Johnson, manager of network operations for FHSU\u2019s\nTechnology Services. \u201cSo the hardware we deployed supports the new WiFi 6\nstandard and readies us for the upcoming generation of devices that use the new\nstandards.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WiFi 6 is a set of new technologies that\nare faster and more efficient and can handle more devices simultaneously than\never before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new access area covers approximately\n60 acres in the shape of a baseball diamond. It encompasses the quad, green\nspaces around academic and administrative buildings and parking lots, as well\nas street area parking \u2013 all on the east side of Big Creek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new WiFi transmitters are housed in\n23 sturdy, gray columns that range from 5 to 20 feet in height and placed in\nareas near trees, buildings and open areas around campus. The shorter\ntransmitter columns, called bollards, are located in 15 different spots \u2013\nseveral near benches on the quad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson researched the ways other\nuniversities were dealing with pandemic challenges, and he learned that some\nset up tents and installed temporary WiFi with mobile hotspots to accommodate\noutdoor classes.\n\n\u201cThat works well, but we wanted to make this a\npermanent service and install it properly,\u201d he said. \u201cFrom now on, even when we\nget past the pandemic, we will have quality outdoor WiFi.\u201d\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS Students, faculty, staff and visitors to Fort Hays State University will no longer have to get near a building to receive quality&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Outdoor20WiFi.png?fit=723%2C459&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58569,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58567\/revisions\/58569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}