With October being Cyber Security Awareness Month, we want to make sure all students are keeping themselves safe online, no matter where they are studying from. Our ITS experts at the College have put together some tips to make sure your personal information is kept safe and sound on the web! Below, you can find some of our team’s best tips for locking down your info: Continue reading
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Photonics, light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation and electronics, is a multi-trillion-dollar industry, used in a huge number of applications of our daily life in areas as diverse as communications, defense, manufacturing, entertainment, consumer equipment, aviation, agriculture, life sciences, and medicine. Algonquin College is home to the only photonics lab of its kind in the world – all thanks to a substantial upgrade and sponsorship donated by Ciena.
Before the latest iteration of the Ciena Optophotonics Lab, it had a capacity of 2.5 gigabit per second (Gbit/s). With the upgrade, the lab can transmit data flows at 200 Gbit/s. This lab also features the equipment used in major telecommunications facilities in Canada, allowing Algonquin College students to get hands-on experience from world-class and cutting-edge technology in this new teaching lab installation. Continue reading
An Important message for students:
To keep your information safeguarded, we are updating our systems for email access. As of August 27 at 3:00 p.m., you may not be able to access your Algonquin College email account via your current email applications. This change is being made to maintain compatibility with security improvements that Microsoft is planning in the future.
Access to email using the Microsoft Outlook application (installed on all standard College laptops and desktops), the Microsoft Mail Windows 10 application, the Outlook app (available for most mobile devices) and via a web browser will not be affected. Any other email app or client may no longer function to access your College email. Continue reading