Computert Education and Information Techology
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"The ground floor study hall"
About 200 "Information Connectors" have been installed on the ground floor study hall that is a space for independent study and a cafeteria. These connectors are always available for all students because these buildings are open 24 hours a day on a year-round basis.
Information Connectors
There are about 5,000 "Information Connectors" at KIT campus. They can be used to connect the students' laptop computers with the Campus Network and the Internet.
Multi-Media KOBO
High performance personal computers, MIDI keyboard, and nonliner video analyzer are available for students to create Digital Contents such as Computer Graphics, Video, and Homepage design.
Multi-Media Lab
To produce contents for education using voices and movies, there is a nonliner video analyzer and high performance authoring machines
The Multi-media Campus has been established by Kanazawa Institute of Technology (hereaftergKIT")
All buildings on the KIT campus are covered by four different kinds of cable, such as 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet), 155Mbps (ATM), 622Mbps (ATM), and 1Gbps (Gigabit Ethernet of optical fiber). On the KIT campus a local area network of more than 10 kilometers connects with thousands of intensively used workstations and personal computers. About 8,000 students also have their own laptop computers, which they can connect to one of about 5,000 ports set up around campus to access the Internet and the Campus Network. Since April 2001, KIT has utilized the ports (connected to the optical fiber) in 3,500 rooms at about 200 apartment complexes around the campus.
