StormWood Vertical Market: Public Sector
As information technologies continue to evolve, state and local governments and educational institutions are under increasing pressure to provide high levels of connectivity, access to instant information and modern collaboration capabilities. Yet many agencies and institutions face constantly shrinking budgets, and complex, aging IT infrastructures that make the switch to IP-based communications and virtual infrastructures seem a daunting prospect.
State and Local Government
StormWood and our partners are committed to helping state and local governments deliver new communications solutions that align with local challenges, help build more interactive relationships with citizens and business owners, and bring additional government resources to communities, towns, cities, and counties.
The ShoreTel UC system helps local governments meet the changing needs of its citizens for quality of life, economic development, safety and emergency response by providing an easy-to-use, reliable and scalable communications solution that can be implemented quickly and easily across multiple sites.
With a ShoreTel UC system, local agencies serve citizens more efficiently and effectively—ShoreTel not only offers a low total cost of ownership, but provides advanced, innovative features on an open platform designed for growth.
Higher Education and K-12 Schools
With tight operating budgets, increased government regulation, rising demand for financial aid and shrinking government funds, today’s schools, colleges and universities face greater challenges than ever before. At the same time, as a result of the incumbent financial crisis and subsequent rise in unemployment, an increasing number of students are applying for admission to higher education and financial aid. The public’s expectation for innovative educational technologies is also growing.
StormWood and our Partners offer several solutions that help educational institutions address these challenges.
The ShoreTel UC system provides an affordable, highly reliable and secure solution that can be implemented across multiple sites with an easy-to-use, Web-based central management system. Based on an open platform, ShoreTel solutions are highly scalable and provide feature-rich applications that continue to evolve to meet new demands.
With multiple buildings and campuses spread across a regional area, the ShoreTel UC system offers a single solution that can be managed centrally, while helping your educational community stay connected, even in the face of major changes in the marketplace.
High definition (HD) videoconferencing has become a mainstream communication tool, encouraging new levels of face-to-face collaboration. From large lecture halls to state-of- the-art learning centers, HD makes the whole experience perfectly natural for education. It provides students with access to high-quality education without compromise. HD quality ensures that professors and students are fully engaged and have complete access to the curriculum from anywhere, at any time. With the simple yet powerful solution from LifeSize, Teachers can share lectures live via video conference and streaming to web- enabled PCs and can record lectures for students to play back when convenient to them.
Educational institutions demand a networking solution that goes beyond basic high speed
connectivity. The solution must maintain a high degree of accessibility and flexibility to serve the needs of students, faculty, and staff, while at the same time safeguarding student privacy and the integrity of the institution’s resources.
With embedded intelligence that can be fine-tuned to the specific needs of the education
environment, Enterasys networking solutions are leveraged by colleges, universities and K-12 districts around the world to ensure the availability of both wired and wireless networking services, prioritize access for administrative operations as well as education applications and research, enforce authorized access criteria to protect student data confidentiality and preserve data integrity. As well as offer high speed, mobile wireless network access for students, faculty, and staff, and at the same time enforce role-based acceptable usage policies.