Interested in streaming lectures over the internet? Want to improve student security with IP CCTV? Perhaps you’re looking at managing inbound calls during the clearing and enrolment process? Whatever the scenario, we’re the right partner for you.
We already work with universities and colleges nationwide, as well as with the regional higher education metropolitan area networks (MANs) funded by the UK Educational Research Network Association (UKERNA), including WMNC, SWERN and NIRAN. We’ve also been awarded a place on a number of Framework Agreements, such as the Telecom Network Framework Agreement and the Crescent Purchasing Consortium.
We appreciate your genuine need for resilience and high performance networks: to facilitate web-based learning, to allow quick and easy access to student and examination records, to make collaborative working on joint research projects possible between geographically remote academic bodies and campuses and to help with greater access for increasing numbers of remote or part time students.
Here’s a how we can help:
24/7 access: Open yet controlled
An ‘anywhere-anytime’ student lifestyle needs the support of a truly transparent network architecture. Students always need to access their files, or hook into campus resources via a lecture hall network port, a common room WiFi cloud, or a broadband connection in their rooms.
Yet controlled, context-sensitive access is paramount - what’s cool in common room leisure time may be simply distracting mid-lecture. Our LAN Solutions deliver flexible, secure and highly customised campus-wide networks that integrate wired, WiFi and public network services with high levels of security and management control. Our Site-to-Site Connectivity solutions can turn your multiple-site campuses into one large network. For instance, our fully managed MPLS IPVPN solutions are great for connecting geographically dispersed campuses or institutions, while Metro Ethernet VPN offers all the performance of a Local Area Network spread over entire towns or cities
Student room services: Converged comforts
We really bring home technology to students. Today, our converged network products make it simpler and cheaper to deliver aggregated services like broadband, telephone and multimedia direct to student accommodation. So now, centrally managed security ensures that foreign students can make internet phone calls home, while accessing the university’s secure network from the same PC. To do this, our Managed Internet Access ensures that a high-quality internet experience reaches every room. Meanwhile, products and services from our LAN Solutions portfolio make it simple to create and maintain different security policies for different access locations. LAN solutions can also help your new and intelligent building programmes, opening opportunities for wireless LAN access from anywhere on campus and for resilient networks geared to the demands of modern e-learning.
CCTV security: Making campus a safer place
Patrols are a great visible reassurance, but IP CCTV makes a huge, always-on contribution to a safe campus. Your security centre can monitor all sites, all the time, from a single, central control suite - even for the largest multi-site campus. Temporary plug-and-play cameras also take care of ad hoc campus events like balls, exhibitions and festival weeks. The same Ethernet Solutions or IPVPN network that links campus buildings and university sites across town can also carry your IP CCTV traffic - plus additional applications like IP Voice. This single, converged network pays off not only by stretching budgets further, but also by making management easier and opening up advanced services.
Intelligent call routing: Smarter communications
A single IP network across all your sites can bring dramatic improvements to telephony services and the cost of delivering them. Finding people becomes much easier, because, wherever they log on, IP Voice will connect calls to students or staff. All campus calls can be free. IPVPN with CoS (Class of Service) prioritisation guarantees voice quality, while IP Voice delivers state-of-the-art campus telephony services.
Network security: Easy management
A unified network platform is easier to manage and provides fine control over security and privileges. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach - different users can be given different access rights for different locations, allowing them to use social networking sites in their rooms while confining access to learning materials in the lecture hall. Similarly, video entertainment sites can be blocked in the library, but made available in the common rooms. Within the LAN Solutions portfolio we can carry out a full risk audit, advise on security policy, the best architecture and product set and project manage installation rollout.
Clearing and enrolment
Our Customer Contact Solutions can help take the pain out of the clearing and enrolment process. We offer flexible call routing in tandem with a range of Telebusiness Numbers like 0800 and 0845.
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