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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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Wi-Fi vendors</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;
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alt="ConnectED logo" align="left" height="110"
width="110">We've blogged about the Federal
Communication Commission's <a
href="http://oplin.org/eratechanges">E-Rate
reforms</a> in an <a
href="http://www.oplin.org/4cast/?p=4779">earlier
<em>4cast</em></a>, so you may remember that one
of the big changes is a push to use more E-Rate
money to support the management and operation of
Wi-Fi in schools and libraries, including
installation, activation, and initial
configuration of eligible components. The FCC's
"push" will come in the form of $2 billion of new
E-Rate funding over the next two years for Wi-Fi
upgrades, which of course has the attention of
Wi-Fi vendors. Now we're starting to see some
vendors take an advantage in the rush for the new
money, through their involvement with the
President's <a
href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/education/k-12/connected/">ConnectED</a>
initiative, which prepared the ground in many ways
for the FCC's E-Rate reforms.
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<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/27/apple-connected-program/">Apple's
ConnectED program participation brings Macs,
iPads and more to underserved schools</a>
(TechCrunch | Darrell Etherington) "Apple's
program will put an iPad in the hand of each
student at these [114] schools, give both an
iPad and a Mac to every teacher and admin staff,
and put an Apple TV in each classroom. It's
truly a full-coverage approach, and it should
mean that these schools, at least from a
technological perspective, get to stand on more
equal footing with some of their better-funded
peers."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/27/7079031/apple-details-how-connected-pledge-is-helping-us-schools">Apple
details how its $100 million pledge to Obama's
ConnectED will help schools</a> (The Verge |
Chris Welch) "Apple wants to see things through
with its pledge to ConnectED, and that extends
beyond simply passing its products around. The
company says each school will be assigned a
dedicated Apple Education Team that will help
educators integrate the technology in lessons
and ensure they can make the most of what
they've been given."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.networkcomputing.com/wireless-infrastructure/apple-picks-aerohive-for-connected-program/a/d-id/1317031">Apple
picks Aerohive for ConnectED program</a>
(Network Computing | Lee Badman) "Aerohive
Networks announced today that it's been selected
as the <a
href="http://www.aerohive.com/company/press-releases/aerohive-networks-selected-apple-provide-wi-fi-connected-initiative">sole
WiFi infrastructure provider</a> for ConnectED
as part its relationship with Apple, which is
expected to be a major provider of devices to
the program. Apple plans to provide $100 million
in resources to the initiative, including client
devices (iPads and AppleTVs) and the Aerohive
network switches and APs that will form the new
infrastructure for ConnectED schools."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.crn.com/news/networking/300074611/aerohive-networks-teams-with-apple-to-drive-obamas-connected-program.htm">Aerohive
Networks teams with Apple to drive Obama's
ConnectED program</a> (CRN | Kristin Bent)
"[Bill] Hoppin [vice president of business
development at Aerohive] said all of Aerohive's
ConnectED implementations will be done by its
partner and managed service provider, Education
Networks of America (ENA). He said in addition
to helping deploy Aerohive's technology, ENA
will provide schools with ENA Air, a turnkey
managed services offering for wireless
infrastructures."</li>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Articles
from <a href="http://ohioweblibrary.org">Ohio
Web Library</a>:</em></strong></small><br>
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<li><a
href="http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/lrc/detail/detail?sid=254ddb73-80e6-4528-a86f-0c43c3c3215f%40sessionmgr110&vid=0&hid=101&bdata=JnNpdGU9bHJjLWxpdmU%3d#db=lfh&AN=88982229">Public:
ALA praises White House E-Rate push.</a> (<em>Library
Journal</em>, 7/1/2013, p28 | Karyn
Peterson)</li>
<li><a
href="http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/ehost/detail/detail?sid=73433c48-592e-40e1-9f34-cc54cb625e5a%40sessionmgr115&vid=0&hid=101&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=sch&AN=89177121">Why
we need high-speed schools.</a> (<em>Scientific
American</em>, Aug. 2013, p69-71 | Arne
Duncan)</li>
<li><a
href="http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/lrc/detail/detail?sid=ae691ee9-9ade-4a28-ac06-3923c7455b67%40sessionmgr111&vid=0&hid=101&bdata=JnNpdGU9bHJjLWxpdmU%3d#db=lfh&AN=97350088">Industry:
FCC adds $2 billion to E-Rate.</a> (<em>Library
Journal</em>, 8/1/2014, p16 | Carolyn Sun)</li>
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