AI-Powered Campus NaaS for Higher Education

Universities face mounting challenges: complex networks, shrinking budgets, rising cyber threats, and growing digital and hybrid learning and compliance demands. Legacy vendors push more hardware and licenses, while managed services strip IT of control and drain budgets.

New Top 5 Trends Reshaping Higher Education Ready IT Campus Networks

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Zero-Trust

Security against breaches

Zero-Tickets

Guaranteed 99.9% SLAs

Zero-CAPEX

30-50% Cost Savings

Higher Education has networking challenges.

Nile NaaS delivers solutions:

  • Security that protects students, staff, and every IoT device

  • An AI-powered network that scales with enrollment, not costs

  • A solution that frees up IT staff instead of tying them down

  • Predictable pricing with zero CAPEX shock

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October 27-30

See our AI-Powered network platform in action and secure 1:1 time with our experts

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Webinar

October 22

Flat Budgets, Stretched Staff and Security Threats:
Getting Higher-Ed Networks Future-Ready with NaaS

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Insanely simple, secure, wired + wireless Campus LAN for Higher Education

Concordia University

Concordia University doubled enrollment but faced outages and Wi-Fi complaints that its small IT team couldn’t manage. With Nile’s Network-as-a-Service (NaaS), outages fell 67%, guest issues disappeared, and scalability became effortless—freeing IT to focus on growth instead of constant firefighting.

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University of Missouri Kansas City

Nile solved UMKC’s wireless problems with always-on connectivity, strengthened the university’s security posture, freed up scarce IT resources, and turned the network into a manageable operational expense.

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IES Abroad

Nile helped IES Abroad eliminate inconsistent connectivity and network disruptions and now connects students to opportunities supported by a reliable and high-performing wired and wireless network.

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University of Idaho

Nile delivered a world-class AI-Powered NaaS, built on a zero-trust fabric, to accelerate agriculture and manufacturing robotics research and support statewide lab expansion with significant savings.

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New Top 5 Trends Reshaping Higher Education Ready IT Campus Networks

Discover the five forces–AI, Zero Trust, automation, aoutcomes, and user experience, that are transforming campus for smarter, seamless learning

Frequently Asked Questions

At the University of Denver, Nile was deployed in less than four weeks. The streamlined process included everything: installation, configuration, and go-live. All without putting a major drain on their IT staff.

Nile provides built-in Zero Trust security on day one. At a practical level, this means delivering advanced per-device isolation, micro-segmentation, and identity-based policy control across your entire campus, which limits the impact of any potential malware or IoT attack. No need for complex VLANs, ACLs, and NAC solutions that are burdening IT teams today.

Yes. The University of Idaho’s robotics lab needed high reliability, ultra-low latency and a high degree of security to support its autonomous systems environment. Nile delivered a zero trust fabric with high-speed connectivity and seamless control needed to synchronize industrial robots and production machines, without the drag of legacy networking gear.

At UMKC, Nile helps their IT staff manage access privileges for more than 6,000 endpoints, including user devices, security cameras, and lab equipment, all with increased visibility and simplified control. All without complex on-prem NAC appliances. Every Nile NaaS includes built-in access control and zero trust capabilities.

Yes. What can start as a targeted deployment – for example to better secure critical data in a research lab or to boost the performance of applications in student residences - Nile NaaS can easily expand campus-wide. At Idaho and UMKC, the performance, simplicity and built-in operational offload features opened the door for broader expansion across departments and facilities in just a matter of months.

Unlike legacy solutions that require manual maintenance and constant patching, Nile’s Network-as-a-Service model is cloud-managed, AI-powered, and hands-off. Institutions and IT teams get a secure, self-optimizing network without the staffing strain and complexity of pieced together legacy networks, hidden costs, or the constant worry about vulnerabilities inherent in legacy designs.

Nile takes on the heavy lifting—deployment, updates, monitoring, and alerts—eliminating the weeks IT teams spend on manual troubleshooting and configuration. Lean IT teams at institutions like Concordia and UMKC saw major reductions in help desk ticket volume and operational complexity on day one. AI, constant monitoring, and built-in optimization workflows eliminate chasing manual “actions” prescribed by other vendors AI.

Yes. Institutions have deployed Nile NaaS in academic buildings, residence halls, research labs, and across entire campuses, gaining the same AI-powered, secure, high-performance LAN benefits regardless of location. The service is designed to support general access for students, staff, and visitors, as well as the needs of specialized research environments.