A wireless wide area university network: deploying an access solution to network services in geographically scattered áreas
The National Open and Distance University (Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia, —UNAD—) is the biggest one in Colombia because of its number of venues and students. Its sixty campus are spread over the Colombian territory; in some cases, separated among themselves by thousands of kilometers. This paper describes how UNAD’s innovation and technological management office prepared and developed a solution to resolve a typical problem into the geographically separate organizations, namely the access to web services. This solution includes the access and communication levels, and it warrants the features related to the configuration, security and availability of the web elements for all the users, independently of their mobility among its facilities.
