Operation: Super Access
It can connect professors in Worcester to students in Bangkok faster than a speeding bullet. It grants trustees the power to leap time zones in a single bound. It is more powerful than a locomotive. And it makes everything happen--no matter your longitude and latitude--in real time. It's WPI's new Fuller Access Grid, one of only six such access grids in New England; just 158 exist worldwide. The array of large-format multimedia displays facilitates group-to-group interactions through Internet2. Initially, WPI's Access Grid will be used for seminars and community events, and to support WPI's global project centers.
The access grid and a new Network Operations command center inhabit the former Wedge dining area on the first floor of Daniels Hall. Generous gifts-in-kind and sponsorships to outfit the new facilities came from the George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Foundation, DelSignore Electrical Contractors, Integration Partners and Nortel Networks.
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