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City University adopts Metro Ethernet
One London university has adopted a high-speed network to enable its students remote access to its online facilities, it has emerged.
City University is using a high-speed metropolitan Ethernet network to connect its central campus to ten remote sites across the city.
The improved bandwidth will provide the institute's 15,000 students and 2,500 staff a high-speed connection to support e-learning technologies such as WebCT and podcasts for lectures.
Carl Stokes, the university's director of IT operations and infrastructure: "In order to support this service and deploy further innovative technologies to enhance the way our students learn, we required sufficient resilient bandwidth over which to run applications."
He added that there had been a rise of more than one third (35 per cent) in the number of students using e-learning technologies at the institute.
The university's Wide Area Network will be replaced by the new high bandwidth network.
Meanwhile, bandwidth demand is also being led by customers of Apple's iTunes music store who have downloaded more than five billion tracks according to the IT giant since it began selling music online.
