2008
2008 Winner Profile
University of Notre Dame
- Project Description: The University of Notre Dame replaced 3,364 wireline telephones in its residence halls with a multicarrier cellular distributed antenna system supplied by NextG. Notre Dame redirected the $1 million per year used to pay for the residence-hall telephones to fund a 10-year contract with Comcast and bring cable TV to all campus student rooms and Wi-Fi access to all residence halls. An emergency system employs multiple communications conduits, including cellular broadcast via the NTI Group's Connect-Ed emergency notification service and video feeds via the Comcast campus cable system.
- Project type: Mobile, Network, CATV
- Business Functions: Customer service/support, IT operations
- Business Goal: Social
- CIO: $model.cio100.cioFirstName Wishon, Associate VP/Associate Provost, CIO
- CEO: John Jenkins, President
- Headquarters: Notre Dame, Ind.
- Industry: Education
- Revenue (2007): $737 million
- Website: www.nd.edu
