High tech firms can reduce prototyping costs with cutting edge machine to cellular (M2C) computational science living-lab
AURORA, Ill., July 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Marmion Academy announces the formation of the SPC (Simulation Prototyping Consortium for Business and Government) in partnership with Business Only Broadband and Lemko Corporation. The SPC Consortium will accelerate the benefits of modern day Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Schools and serve the needs of 21st century education by opening a cutting edge M2C Computational Science Living-Lab on their 325 acre campus in Aurora, IL. The Living-Lab will be supported through Marmion's Computational STEM Education and Training (CSET) Center and its newly formed C/PARC Engineering Center.
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Marmion Academy is collaborating with SPC Consortium members Business Only Broadband and Lemko Corp to continue its tradition of academic excellence. Working in concert with SPC's unique simulation core technologies, Lemko's M2C platform and Business Only Broadband's Carrier-Grade network for connectivity, Marmion will open its doors to collaboration opportunities on real world projects.
"Marmion Academy is pleased to work with High Tech businesses and government who need to reduce the costs of prototyping via modeling and simulation and also require engagement on a for-profit basis. Living-Lab benefits also include educating and training future generations of employees in a next generation STEM School environment," says Anthony Tinerella, Head of School at Marmion Academy.
"Lemko's software solution enables STEM Schools to easily deploy LTE communication network functionality in a test lab environment to support M2C uses cases requiring sensors, actuators and M2M (Machine-to-Machine) prototyping. Lemko's quick-deploy testing platform comes pretested and preconfigured," says Michael Sisto, Vice President Sales, Lemko Corp.
About Marmion Academy
Marmion Academy, a Catholic-Benedictine college preparatory high school for young men, is a community dedicated to spiritual formation, academic excellence and leadership development. The Academy is owned and operated by Benedictine monks of Marmion Abbey. The Abbey and Academy occupy a 325-acre campus in the western Chicago suburb of Aurora, Illinois. For more information visit www.marmion.org.
About Business Only Broadband
Business Only Broadband (BOB) provides Business-Class, diverse wireless Metro Ethernet Data Network and Internet Solutions to the financial, healthcare, hospitality, education, government, and other enterprise sectors. BOB is the largest fixed wireless broadband provider in Chicagoland, with additional presence in the Milwaukee and New York / Northern New Jersey metropolitan areas. BOB offers diverse access from all other terrestrial carriers, a highly resilient design with a self-healing Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) architecture, diverse Tier 1 Internet peering points, and Carrier-Grade Service Level Agreements.
About Lemko Corporation
Lemko is a Distributed Mobile Wireless Network software company with ultra-low cost Internet based architectures that drive down the cost per GB MHz POP. Lemko is the industry leader in Re-Engineering the Mobile Network for Internet Economics and provides quick deployments of 2G, 3G and 4G LTE cellular systems powered by a virtualized and distributed EPC and IMS core. The company's market leading solutions are available in multiple form factors including macro network, small cell, enterprise access point, On-Demand Cellular (ODC), M2M, cellular on wheels (COWs), man-portable and are deployed with enterprises, carriers, government, and military private network operators. Lemko is headquartered in Itasca, Illinois, USA.
Additional information is available at www.lemko.com.
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