4G network on Dutch campuses
Students will have faster mobile Internet access soon. At the end of this year Dutch higher education computer network SURFnet and Dutch phone company KPN start building a 4G network on campuses.
KPN and SURFnet start rolling out the fourth generation of wireless communication (4G) on a Dutch campus at the end of this year. It is not yet determined which campus. “It will be the university that best matches the project. As it also means extra effort on the part of the university”, says product manager Maurice van den Akker (SURFnet) to Webwereld.
The 4G network project will then move to a second campus to test a different set up and to see whether a user of one campus can easily use the mobile network on the other campus.
SURFnet will also start using IPv6 Internet addresses. It will be implemented on all higher education institutions connected to SURFnet. IPv6 is the next generation of Internet addresses (IP) and is needed because the world is running out of these addresses .
