Telecommunications Services
Strategic Telecommunications Plan
"Campus of the Future"
Indiana State University has made great strides in the past decade in providing a modern, secure, stable and flexible network infrastructure, serving the voice, data, and video needs of the campus. Within the next four years, ISU will develop and build a convergent environment (integrating voice, video and data using both wired and non-wired technologies) that will enable more effective learning and collaboration among teachers, students, and the community at large as well as expand the range of services that the University is able to offer to its students and employees.
It is expected that this environment will provide seamless access to
voice, data and video capabilities for the university and will
enable more effective collaboration between students, staff and
faculty. All members of the academic community will be enabled with
laptop computers which will provide quick and easy access to a wide
variety of information resources.
The first step in this direction has already been taken as ISU
embarks on a plan to improve communications and information access
on the campus through a program called “Laptop University”. During
the next four years, all students and faculty will be equipped with
laptops. As this program unfolds, ISU will also need to increase
connectivity and access through the use of wireless infrastructures
and an enhanced campus telecommunications backbone.
Indiana State University is pursuing innovative strategies that will
facilitate significant educational, business, and technological
growth for the university by 2010. ISU has enlisted the service of
an external entity to assist in developing a strategic
telecommunications plan that facilitates the "Campus of the Future".
This page will be updated as the "Campus of the Future" strategic
telecommunications plan unfolds.