Higher & further education
Helping you transform public services
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. Working
with us is an education.
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.
