Private 5G Takes Stress Off Enterprise Wi-Fi
GCN, February 17th, 2023
Besides enabling users to stay secure and connected as they travel across campus, Cal Poly's private network allows for dynamic bandwidth customization, ensuring availability at peak times and scaling back at others.
Tests of private 5G networks on the California Polytechnic State University campus are revealing opportunities for better connectivity, reliability and cybersecurity that cities could benefit from, too.
Concerned about overtaxing the university's Wi-Fi, Bill Britton, Cal Poly's vice president for information technology services and chief information officer, started using private 5G about a year ago to determine whether it could help network managers avoid bandwidth shaping-or taking bandwidth from one application and giving it to another to support data transfer.