Nash Community College is located on 111 acres in Rocky Mount, NC.
Founded in 1967, Nash is a public two-year, post-secondary educational institution serving 12,000 students every year. The college employs approximately 500 faculty and staff to provide services to students.
Over 80 academic programs prepare students for degrees, transfers, certifications and diplomas, along with vocational, occupational, and industry-related programs that prepare students for jobs and provide a skilled workforce for the local community.
Campus buildings include the Continuing Education and Public Services Building, Advanced Manufacturing Building, Cosmetology Building, Science and Technology Building, the Business and Industry Center, and a five-star rated Child Development Center.
Keeping everyone connected on the busy campus to their cellular carriers had been a challenge in many of the buildings. The call for solutions went out and MABC was selected to design and deploy a WilsonPro Cell Booster system to improve coverage across campus.
Donor antennas deployed on the rooftops of five campus buildings are connected to cabling infrastructure and boosters are deployed throughout the campus buildings, connecting mobile users to strong in-building signals.
From the CIO’s perspective…
“The improvements to our cellular coverage across the campus were instantly noticeable. Numerous locations, where students and employees once had to go outside to send and receive calls, now enjoy reliable service. From a CIO’s perspective, choosing to partner with MABC to implement this technology was an easy win. The project management was superb and installation was quick and professional – and there are no reoccurring fees to maintain the service.
I evaluated several technologies and providers and always came back to MABC because of their reputation among my peers, the overall ROI, and the quality of the hardware they install. While it is great to provide our users with the ability to make and receive calls around campus, one of the biggest benefits of implementing this technology with MABC is knowing that I have made our campus more secure in the remote areas of our buildings where it is needed most.
Working with the MABC design engineers, we were able to use the improvements to the cellular coverage to upgrade our fire, burglar, elevator, HVAC, and IoT communications to use cellular data instead of continuing to support antiquated and expensive copper POTS lines.”
Jonathan Vester, Ed.D.
Vice President of Technology & CIO
Nash Community College
Still standing by your office windows? Need help with your cellular connections? We can help.
Contact your MABC technology experts today at Portsmouth: (757) 673-2200, Richmond: (804) 273-6500, DC/MD/NOVA: (301) 882.7760 or info@mabc.com.