By Dian Schaffhauser
12/10/20
An Historically Black University has chosen to upgrade its wireless networking capacity through a managed service. Founded in 1875, Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (AAMU) recently announced that it had selected Apogee to implement a new high-speed WiFi network in its four colleges and at a 972-acre off-campus agricultural research station. Apogee is a managed services provider that focuses solely on higher education.
The network will work alongside an existing residential network. Apogee will also provide 24/7 support for users via phone, chat, text and e-mail and produce real-time location analytics to help the university understand facility usage. One of our 2021 strategic goals was to drastically improve our WiFi offering to meet the needs of the university in a world that is more connected than ever before, said Andrew Hugine, president of the institution, in a press release. Our mobility dependence has increased exponentially o