mangalore in a first among universities in the state mangalore university has installed internet protocol ip phones in its 25 postgraduate departments the ip phones facilitate communication between the departments without additional cost using intercom facility another specialty of the technology is it does away with cabling used for connecting phones from one pg department to the other because the connection is taken from internet connection points available in each department according to mangalore university vicechancellor tc shivashankara murthy ip phones not only ease communication activities among teaching and nonteaching faculty but also speed up the works of university he told toi that 126 ip phones had already been installed in pg departments soon 50 more ip phones will be installed in the university including the administrative office mu is the second university after university of calcutta to install such a facility in the country he added the university also plans to install 30 additional computers at the cyber lab inside the university library within a few days at present the varsity has 90 computers and three cyber labs there is much more when it comes to the upgradation of technology in mu the university had distributed 103 laptops to its teaching faculties to help them make audiovisual presentation on various topics to students recently this will better their understanding of academic subjects and it also helps the teaching staff who attend conferences in different places said vijay the computer operator of mu