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| The Case | |
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MCC Updates Computer and Academic Labs Middlesex Community College (MCC) provides many paths to higher education for approximately 6,200 students at two campuses located in Lowell and Bedford, Massachusetts. MCC wanted to prioritize the students' needs, provide high quality service, and update the computer labs on both campuses. The network where the academic labs resided needed to be addressed; a Local Area Network (LAN) within a LAN was needed. |
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Continental Resources provid- ed the solution with over 300 new XPRO®Systems Pentium II PCs in the labs and two new HP servers, one for each campus. These XPRO Systems Pentium II PCs complement Continental's professional networking, systems integration, and support services. These PCs combine the architectural advances of Intel's Pentium Pro processor with the instruction set extensions of MMX technology. |
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| A LAN Within a LAN | |
In 1996, the local area network (LAN) at Middlesex Community College (MCC) consisted of several DEC VAX mainframes providing file and print services to two campuses and 14 buildings. The new Dean of Academic Resources, Margaret McDevitt, wanted to improve computer services in computer labs to all students and faculty using technology. The first goal was to concentrate on the student computer labs and current network. Dean McDevitt felt it was important to separate the network out to a LAN within a LAN (one for academia and one for administration). The existing network was rather slow, and this upgrade would result in improved service to students and give faculty their own LAN. |
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