Newbury for Education

Campus-Wide Content Provisioning, WLAN Management and WLAN Security

Newbury Networks provides educational institutions campus-wide WLAN solutions that real-time precisely locates all wireless network usage giving IT professionals "802.11 goggles" to see the wireless traffic flows they must manage and secure.

Newbury's unique location-aware WLAN capabilities also drive new content provisioning services and significantly improve campus security and student mobility while reducing infrastructure costs at some of the most prestigious educational institutions in the United States like Dartmouth College and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Enhancing the Learning Experience - Location-Based Content Provisioning

With the ability to real-time track the physical location of all Wi-Fi devices and 802.11 signal-traffic, Newbury Networks WLAN solutions make possible a range of new campus-wide educational services creating more productive learning environments both inside and outside the classroom.

Real world scenarios deployed using Newbury's WLAN solutions include:

• Providing students and faculty campus-wide secure Wi-Fi / Wireless LANs to enhance learning and mobility.
• Stopping email, instant messaging, file-sharing and uncontrolled Internet access in classrooms to eliminate distractions and cheating opportunities.
• Providing classrooms and lecture halls limited (URL-specific) internet access that's course-work relevant and available only in a classroom and at specified class-times to enhance class-room attendance
• Pushing content to a student's laptop, including class notes and assignments, only when a student is present in class to require class presence.
• Controlling and optimizing the performance, coverage and capacity of your total network, for example tracking and stopping illicit MP3 downloads.
• Taking advantage of location-based monitoring and tracking features to enhance campus-wide e911 services and security.

Campus-Wide WLAN Management

Wireless networks, liked wired networks, require tools and techniques to optimize overall performance. However, there are some critical differences. At the highest level, WLAN management capabilities must:

• Identify when and where WLAN activity is occurring and analyze the quality, type and location of network associations being established campus-wide;
• Seamlessly integrate with existing network infrastructure technologies; and
• Enhance and facilitate the fundamental mobility that 802.11 wireless networks provide students and faculty.

Newbury Networks provides WLAN management capabilities to IT professionals at universities and educational institutions so you can:

• Real-time, 24x7 locate & track all 802.11 devices
• Dynamically optimize WLAN performance
• Dynamically tune campus-wide AP coverage, capacity and throughput
• Centrally define & control WLAN access policies, WLAN groups & sub-nets (faculty vs. students for example)
• Locate, diagnose & resolve end-user problems
• Real-time locate all WLAN traffic in and around your facilities
• Generate flexible RF maps and WLAN management reporting
• Create actionable alerts & notifications
• Track and locate "heavy-talkers" pinpointing potential WLAN abuse from illegitimate downloads.

To be effective, wireless network management for universities and educational institutions must monitor and locate all Wi-Fi traffic and policy information and control the locations where various wireless network services are accessible. Newbury Networks gives you this capability.

Campus-Wide WLAN Security

For powerful campus-wide security, simple "rogue detection" is not enough - you need to real-time locate and track all wireless devices in your area.

Newbury Networks' campus security solutions allow you to identify, precisely physically locate and deny the following:

• WLAN rogues devices and APs
• Any WLAN devices sending unencrypted traffic
• Students and faculty operating in "ad-hoc mode"
• Students and faculty free-associating with WLAN APs from neighboring businesses on campus grounds
• Neighboring employees and businesses associating with university WLAN APs

Additionally, Newbury Networks' campus security solutions allow you to identify, physically locate and deny the following:

• Man-in-the middle attacks
• ASLEAP / dictionary attacks
• Connection hijacking & DoS attacks
• MAC storms & MAC spoofs

And when any of these situations are identified Newbury's security solutions allow you electronically disconnect offenders.

Some of Newbury's education customers include Dartmouth College, MIT and St. Anselm College.

Which of Newbury's WLAN solutions is right for you?

WiFi Workplace™ - Wireless LAN Management

WiFi Workplace is an enterprise class software system that manages 802.11-based wireless LANs (WLANs). Utilizing Newbury's patented real-time 802.11 device tracking technology, WiFi Workplace provides unprecedented wireless policy management capabilities to dramatically increase performance of your WLANs.

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WiFi Watchdog™ - Wireless LAN Security

WiFi Watchdog provides WLAN security capabilities to exactly pin-point locate and track all wireless devices in real-time, 24x7. Watchdog allows organizations to create a "wireless wall" around physical locations of any size and shape to control access and secure your 802.11-based WLANs.

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Newbury Presence Platform™ - is an extensible software platform to develop and deploy location-enabled applications on top of industry standard WLAN infrastructure.  The Newbury Presence Platform provides unique location-based content provisioning or push capabilities to deliver timely, on-demand and dynamic content relevant to a user at the time the user is at that location.

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