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Creating Digital
Learning Spaces
Alcatel-Lucent Solutions for K-12
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Rapidly evolving technology offers both opportunities and challenges for today’s educators. Advancements in communications enable new ways to reach students and enhance learning, but at the same time, they raise new issues. Preparing the next generation to live, work and flourish means ensuring equal access to technology for all of our children. And delivering that access while maintaining the security of students, teachers and staff – as well their information – becomes more complex. As a techno
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CUSTOMER NEEDS The primary goal for administrators and teachers is to • Students get information and share projects by educate children – preparing them to live and work in working confidently with tools such as the Internet, today’s complex world. Students need to learn basic audio and video collaboration. skills – such as problem solving, communication, and interpersonal skills – plus the information to support • Teachers and administrators can share best practices good decision making. to gen
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Administrators are challenged to integrate technology into the classroom and its operations in a way that productively supports the goal of educating children. Technology for its own sake is counterproductive. Government Standards Security The pressure to address these issues Every school needs a way to has increased in recent years with quickly lock down the premises the implementation of the No and broadcast emergency messages Child Left Behind act in the U.S., to the necessary personnel. And
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ALCATEL-LUCENT SOLUTIONS Converged Networking Alcatel-Lucent’s network solution for educators • Every teacher can have a phone in the classroom provides a converged, high-capacity infrastructure that with unique voicemail supports applications from email and broadband • Dial-by-name on IP or digital business phones Internet access to voice over IP (VoIP). With Alcatel- enables fast communication Lucent, a district can scale its network from a single • Automate school directories to allow a teach
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To administer the converged network, Alcatel-Lucent provides simplified, centralized network management to configure and troubleshoot each device, monitor network traffic, and deliver end-to-end security. Easing network management supports a district’s IT staff – helping them do more to support students and teachers with their limited resources. CONVERGED NETWORKING FEATURES Leverage your data network to offer newer, higher value services that integrate voice, data, and video • • Seamless operat
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Mobility Building on the foundation of a converged network, Alcatel-Lucent’s mobility solution for education facilitates anywhere, anytime access to information. Our flexible wireless local area network (WLAN) technology allows a school to deploy laptops that can be shared and moved between classrooms, to a library or science lab, or even outside – with ubiquitous access to the Internet, email, and online school applications. Wireless VoIP handsets are also supported, providing a greater degree
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Security Security is a primary concern for school districts, and Alcatel-Lucent’s OmniAccess SafeGuard further Alcatel-Lucent’s networking solutions are built to enhances a district’s ability to peer deeper into support and extend their security policies across the network traffic to determine what users are doing on network – from the network core to the applications the network and then compare that with what they’re and devices students and teachers use everyday. allowed to do. OmniAccess Saf
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In support of physical security, teachers can signal an emergency in the Success Story classroom from a PC or phone and instantly, simultaneously notify the principal, security officer, nurse or counselor on their mobile phones, desk Cheltenham School District phones, PCs, etc. IP-enabled alarms on doors, windows, or smoke Location: Elkins Park, PA detectors can signal those same staff members as needed. Administrators (in suburban Philadelphia) can also deliver lockdown alerts to every classroo
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Conferencing and Collaboration Alcatel-Lucent offers a packaged solution providing Students can: audio, data, and even video conferencing. The • Share data with other students in the district or software-based solution – My Teamwork – is a part of around the world for group projects Alcatel-Lucent’s Unified Communications suite and • Attend class virtually if they are home bound or in can be enabled from any telephone, any location, and distance learning programs any browser. It allows secure co
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Video Distribution content provider (telco, cable or Integrating video can dramatically satellite) and distribute channels improve the blended learning to classrooms and libraries. environment. In addition to video conferencing, Alcatel-Lucent can Teachers can easily take clips from provide video distribution for the Discovery Channel or a streaming live video or delivering foreign language program and add video on demand into the multimedia that enriches the classroom. lesson and helps students
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WHY PARTNER WITH ALCATEL-LUCENT Alcatel-Lucent has global education experience, With Alcatel-Lucent, you have an outstanding working with some of the largest school districts in the business partner that provides not only technical U.S. and with ministries of education in countries expertise, support and service, but that can help with around the world. teacher professional development and introducing technology into the classroom. Success Story Hamilton Southeastern School District The solution
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