On October 20, 2022, the company Huawei Ukraine handed over the advanced network equipment to the National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" for providing Wi-Fi coverage in educational buildings and dormitories.
The company provided the university with the equipment for building a modern Wi-Fi-6 network: Wi-Fi access points, switches for powering and connecting access points, and a powerful router to increase connection speed. These are, in particular, 345 wall mounting access points (AirEngine 5761-11W), 200 ceiling mounting access points (AirEngine 5761-11), 20 PoE switches for powering the access points (CloudEngine S5735-L24P4S-A1), 6 aggregation switches (CloudEngine S5735-L48T4X-A1), 1 core switch (CloudEngine S6730-H24X6C) and 1 router (NetEngine 8000 M1C).
One Wi-Fi point will provide access to the network for up to 100 users. The access bandwidth of the new network architecture will be increased from the initial 100 Mbit/s to 1000 Mbit/s. This will ensure faster data transfer and improve the user experience.
"Our cooperation with Huawei Ukraine is an excellent example of how the combination of a high-quality educational process and many years of experience of one of the world's leading technology companies affects the future of Ukraine. For the sixth year in a row, students of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute have the opportunity not only to participate in scientific research, introduced thanks to Huawei, but also to receive benefits from the equipment provided by the company," the rector of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Michael Zgurovsky emphasized.
The optimization and expansion of the network will improve the quality of providing the educational process and research activities, because the central switching equipment of the main core of its network for more than 25,000 subscribers has been upgraded at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic. What's more, a Wi-Fi network has been created, which is available in 24 educational buildings and, what is most up-to-date today, Wi-Fi is provided in the shelters of 16 dormitories!
"We continue supporting our partners in order to promote the development of engineering education in Ukraine. We hope that the equipment that we are handing over to Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic for use today will help to take a quantum leap in the educational process and research work and will contribute to the development of the country's personnel potential in the field of high technologies," - the deputy director of the personnel department of Huawei Ukraine Volodymyr Bilavka noted at the ceremony of handing over the Gift Certificate for communication equipment to Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
It is worth reminding that our university and Huawei Ukraine started cooperation for the joint development of education and science in Ukraine in the field of information and communication technologies back in 2016. Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute became one of the first higher educational institutions with which the company began implementation of various educational programs to attract and train future technical experts and conduct research activities. During the six years of partnership, research centers were created, and educational and scientific projects were carried out on the basis of the university with the support of Huawei Ukraine. Moreover, programs for granting scholarships to students were implemented, the most talented of them were invited to the for internships at Huawei laboratories in the Kyiv office of the company. Among the initiatives implemented within the framework of the partnership between Huawei Ukraine and Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute:
– Huawei Academy of Information and Communications Technologies – a program opened on the basis of our university in 2020, which helps train students and provide them with the necessary knowledge and skills for future professional growth in the ICT industry;
- Seeds for the Future - Huawei educational program, which students of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute pursue for the sixth year in a row;
- Festival of innovative projects "Sikorsky Challenge" - a competition of startups among students, where they can demonstrate their abilities and receive career development offers in various divisions of Huawei Ukraine.