Hyderabad:
The city-based Indian School of Business (ISB) will soon
have another hi-tech facility, ''IP Conference,'' for its
students.
The
main objective of the facility is to connect ISB students
with the Fortune 1000 companies for online interviews.
This feature ensures the students to attend interviews
any time. Perhaps ISB is the first B-school in Asia to
have and use this know-how technology for students.
However,
some product development centres of multinational corporations
(MNCs), including Cisco, have ''IP Conference'' facility
in India basically to interact with their R&D centres
and headquarters.
"We
are introducing IP Conference soon as a value-add feature
for students," says ISB director (IT) V Seetharamaiah.
"The facility is almost ready; we are doing the final
testing now."
The
global institution has already introduced videoconferencing,
audio-video classes an presentation, wireless LAN and
email service. The campus also boasts of the fibre-optic
cable network in place and running. It has 1Mbps connectivity,
which will be scaled to 2 Mbps. The IP Conference facility
is part of the ongoing projects this year.
ISB
is a global business school providing high-quality management
education to students. It has an enviable profile of promoters
featuring the who''s who in the industry, and an equally
impressive faculty. Students clear their GMAT to study
with their peers at the Wharton School, Kellogg School
of Management, and London Business School (LBS) through
videoconference facilities. They pay a fee of Rs 10 lakh
per annum and all carry laptops.
"Students
can login anywhere, be it at the poolside, the gym or
by the lake. The aim is that while at work, the creativity
of students should not be curtailed. Students have the
option of working on their projects, sitting in groups
anywhere in the campus. All they need to do is to insert
the LAN card on their laptops," says Seetharamaiah.
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