Creating Digital Learning Spaces Alcatel-Lucent Solutions for K-12
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.
CUSTOMER NEEDS The primary goal for administrators and teachers is to educate children – preparing them to live and work in today’s complex world. Students need to learn basic skills – such as problem solving, communication, and interpersonal skills – plus the information to support good decision making.
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 has increased in recent years with the implementation of the No Child Left Behind act in the U.S., and many other mandates at the state and local level.
ALCATEL-LUCENT SOLUTIONS Converged Networking Alcatel-Lucent’s network solution for educators provides a converged, high-capacity infrastructure that supports applications from email and broadband Internet access to voice over IP (VoIP). With AlcatelLucent, a district can scale its network from a single site with basic Internet to multiple schools with gigabit Ethernet across a wide area network.
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.
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.
Security Security is a primary concern for school districts, and Alcatel-Lucent’s networking solutions are built to support and extend their security policies across the network – from the network core to the applications and devices students and teachers use everyday.
In support of physical security, teachers can signal an emergency in the classroom from a PC or phone and instantly, simultaneously notify the principal, security officer, nurse or counselor on their mobile phones, desk phones, PCs, etc. IP-enabled alarms on doors, windows, or smoke detectors can signal those same staff members as needed.
Conferencing and Collaboration Alcatel-Lucent offers a packaged solution providing audio, data, and even video conferencing. The software-based solution – My Teamwork – is a part of Alcatel-Lucent’s Unified Communications suite and can be enabled from any telephone, any location, and any browser. It allows secure conferencing with anyone, inside or outside the school district, without the need for downloads or a VPN.
Video Distribution Integrating video can dramatically improve the blended learning environment. In addition to video conferencing, Alcatel-Lucent can provide video distribution for streaming live video or delivering video on demand into the classroom. A school can digitize its media assets—purchased or created by the teachers and students—and store them within the system for on demand availability across the district.
WHY PARTNER WITH ALCATEL-LUCENT Alcatel-Lucent has global education experience, working with some of the largest school districts in the U.S. and with ministries of education in countries around the world. With Alcatel-Lucent, you have an outstanding business partner that provides not only technical expertise, support and service, but that can help with teacher professional development and introducing technology into the classroom.
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