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CENTAURI allows extending high speed WiFi across the campus and facilitates high-volume data flows in record time.

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Industry trends in education

The education industry is experiencing a shift. From managing courses, to attending lectures and completing assignments, to sitting for exams, the increase in the use of online learning and multimedia tools has accelerated over the past few years. 83% of institutions have reported increasing use of learning tools and portals as top priority. Cutting-edge technology research programs at universities require high-speed and high-performance connectivity for effective collaboration and learning.

Case study - A university in Singapore

Overview

  • Link distance: <1km, Deployed December 2021
  • Extend high-speed Internet access to remote buildings

Challenges

  • Deployment timeframe limited
  • Incumbent vendor’s FSO failed, replacement costs seen as prohibitive
  • A short-term RF point-to-point solution failed to deliver “as-advertised” performance  
  • Extending fiber connectivity is very expensive

Outcomes

  • Client sees CENTAURI 10G as next-generation technology
  • CENTAURI is 3x smaller and lighter and provides 10x speed of old link
  • Quick and easy setup in ½ day
  • Exceptional performance
  • Client considering adding several more links soon

Large campus challenges

Educational campuses are increasingly expected to provide high capacity and pervasive WiFi and internet access across the campus while managing return on IT costs.

Growing bandwidth demands from campus community
High capacity WiFi access to all parts of campus
High capacity connection to cutting-edge research facilities in the university
Quality of service expectations, growing security threats
Return on IT costs

Technology challenges

Long time to deploy

FIBER

To lay fiber takes time, it requires digging a trench, laying conduits and then restoring back to original.

High costs

FIBER

The civil works around laying fiber makes this proposition quite expensive.

Causes disruption to the environment

FIBER

Digging and trenching causes disruption to the environment.

Spectrum congestion

RADIO

Ports need to allocate RF spectrum to many different port operations.

Requires regulatory approvals

RADIO

Certain frequency bands require regulatory approvals and license fees.

Low security

RADIO

Radio links can be easily intercepted and the data can be eavesdropped on.

Limited future capacity

RADIO

eBand Radio operates at 80Ghz and has limited headroom for future bandwidth capacities.

Suffers from throughput throttling

RADIO

Most radio solutions are layer 2 and employ bandwidth throttling in less than ideal conditions.

Solution for universities

The Internet connection from the ISP comes in at the landing zone, located at location A. The high-performance computing centre is at location B and the facility for resident students and faculty is at location C. All need to be connected.

Requirements

  • Each building requires WiFi for internet access
  • HPC centre requires high bandwidth connection

Challenge

  • Digging fiber is expensive
  • Digging fiber disrupts operations and learning experience

Solution

  • CENTAURI provides high-speed 10Gbps links with high throughput between the desired locations.
  • Setup quickly and cost-effectively with zero disruptions

Benefits

  • Extend high bandwidth connectivity across the campus faster, easier and more economically
  • Spectrum management is not required
  • University uses start-of-the-art laser communication on campus introducing a cool factor

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Dereck QuinlanManaging Director, Mavenir

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Dr. Ray KirbyProfessor and UTS Tech Lab Centre Director, UTS (Australia)

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Jason KhuaGeneral Manager, Synetcom

“Campus environments face scaling challenges when trying to improve the quality of connectivity between buildings that are far apart. Currently, organisations only have two viable options – the first is deploying fiber cables which comes with a dollar and time cost to set up, the second is radio frequency-based solutions which are subject to interference from other channels and they lack security assurances. With Transcelestial’s technology, organisations get the best of all worlds – performance, quick to deploy and cost-effective, and without having to sacrifice quality connectivity for security.”

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Tony SoGeneral Manager, Cyber On-Air

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