For students at the Tipperary Institute of Technology getting up early may soon be a thing of the past following the signing of a new contract with LAN Communications to provide the college with the infrastructure for interactive e-learning.
After a converged, high-speed voice and data network has been designed and implemented, students will progressively be able to access lectures at any time and place.
Eventually, the courses will be available through video on demand. IP TV will be used to view on a PC pre-recorded material that is stored on an archive server.
‘Not only is this good news for students, it is also good news for the region’ says Philip Brady, network manager at the Institute. He explained that the college viewed itself as a catalyst in the adoption of new technology and the encouragement of its use in the area.
The college is distributed across two sites in Thurles and Clonmel, and already uses video conferencing across an IP network. Lectures can be broadcast in real time from one site to another in high quality video streams and a newly installed video-conferencing bridge enables the Institute to connect up to 30 sites simultaneously.
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