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While between 90 and 95 percent of College students use laptops for personal computing, most of which are equipped with wireless capabilities, it is important for the College to continue to support the existing ethernet jacks. If installing wireless is meant to increase our computing freedom, then it is important that the college support students’ freedom to opt out of the often-expensive Wi-Fi option...
...cost of wiring undergraduate room for cable TV would run into the millions, and there’s no time of year when construction could occur because most dorms are occupied in the summer. Students have countered with a proposal to digitize programming and send it through the campus ethernet network, as Northwestern University has done since 2001. But nearly lost in this back-and-forth fight over when, how, how much, and what flavor of wiring were important concerns about how the presence of cable in every room would affect student life...
According to Davis, between 90 and 95 percent of students now arrive on campus with laptops, creating high demand for wireless. He said ethernet jacks will remain active in all rooms...
...offers VOD to its subscribers. Who gets credit? Paris-based Alcatel dominates the global $3.3 billion DSLAM market with a 38.1% share, according to Gartner Inc. (China's Huawei is second with 9.9%). Alcatel not only revved up the DSLAM but made it cheaper by deploying a technology called Ethernet that's been around for nearly 30 years in the short-haul business of local area networking. Ethernet allows telecoms to use Internet equipment like routers to direct traffic around the network, and it can cost one-tenth as much as other networking gear. "We noticed Ethernet kept getting cheaper...
...anyone who has never had such access in a place of residence, this might seem like a frivolous demand—how bad is it to have to plug into an Ethernet jack that even in the most generous of housing arrangements is no more than 20 feet away? But ask any biochem concentrator who sleeps in the science center and they’ll tell you that there’s a unique liberty in being able to surf the web from a couch or research a paper in bed, and I also tend to believe it increases productivity...