Jamshedpur, Aug. 10: If things go according to plan, soon a student of XLRI School of Business and Human Resources could be sitting under a shady tree and finishing her homework.

Taking a step to being more techno-savvy, the institution’s campus has been turned into a wireless fidelity connectivity (Wi-Fi) zone.

“We have engaged Linksys, a sister concern of Cisco, a network major, to implement the high-speed Internet services here on the campus,” said A.K. Pani, the chairman of the information systems and the centre for e-business, XLRI.

Once implemented the system would have 12MBPS bandwidth — a tremendous improvement on the existing 4MBPS.

This would mean that users anywhere on the campus would be able to access larger chunks of data and video — a move that is supposed to boost research and assignment papers.

The Internet service providers are Reliance and Bharati. While the former would provide 4MBPS, the latter would provide 8 MBPS power. A total of Rs 35 lakh has been spent on the Wi-Fi project.

“About 70 per cent of the campus has already been converted to Wi-Fi zones and the rest would be completed within the next 10 days. A team from Linksys is currently at XLRI working on the implementation, said Pani.

The wireless connectivity would not only be available at classrooms or hostels but also at the residential complexes of the faculty and the staff. Also, the administrative auditorium and every nook and cranny of the B-school campus could possibly be connected.

The institute has deployed IEEE-11N an industry standard protocol which is a higher efficiency technology. XLRI would be the first institute in the city to go Wi-Fi completely.

“While IIMs have Wi-Fi connectivity, the one here at the XLRI School of Business and Human resources is better, as we have lesser number of students and the distribution system is much more systematic and hence better,” Pani added.