Education Solutions
Inspiring new connections for educational institutions
Windstream understands the challenges facing educational institutions every day—reduced budgets along with increased pressure to provide students and administrators with high-level communications tools and Internet enabled curricula.
Windstream delivers comprehensive, leading-edge solutions to educational facilities, supporting student demands for state-of-the-art communication and Internet based applications, and administration needs for increased productivity and cost control. Windstream can design the comprehensive solutions to meet the unique needs and budgets of all education institutions, from primary to post-secondary education levels, providing remote learning capabilities, improving student services, and enhancing institutional research. In fact, Windstream has a proven track record in helping our education customers achieve their goals and missions through the support of Federal e-rate grant initiatives, as well as state and local government initiatives, all in an effort to bring modern telecommunications and Internet services to the classroom.
Business Challenges:
Improving efficiency and cost savings
In recent years, education institutions have been faced with controlling telecommunications costs, while being challenged to deploy more technology-enabled learning and administrative applications. This trend is resulting in increased network complexity amid a rapidly changing technology landscape. Windstream’s innovative suite of communications, data networking and Internet solutions include the utilization of next-generation services, helping your institution to improve efficiency, realize cost savings and optimize administrative and operational processes.
Reach more students more cost effectively
More and more education institutions are using the Web to facilitate a wider base of students without the need to build more classrooms. By extending instruction outside the bricks-and-mortar classroom comes increased revenues for educational institutions, as well as the challenge of providing a network that meets the high-performance demands of remote learning. Windstream can craft a networking solution to ensure your Internet infrastructure can meet the high-performance demands of educating students who exist beyond your campus borders.
Collaboration among remote campuses
When your facilities include multiple campus extensions, your challenge is to ensure the connection between each of your facilities in order to share common resources, applications, and curriculum. Whether bridging the divide across campus, across the city, or across your state, Windstream offers data, Internet connections, and conferencing communications systems to bridge the distance and integrate remote users into a single campus community.
Protect and secure your students and campus systems
As universities focus on facilitating quality education and academic research, they are faced with the difficult task of maintaining an open door policy for network traffic, despite the growing demands of providing a stable and secure network environment. Universities must safeguard the integrity and availability of their campus data network and reduce threats to computer systems and resources connected to the network. With Windstream’s security solutions, universities can maintain unobstructed network environments while proactively protecting them from cyber threats, unauthorized bandwidth hungry application traffic, and objectionable Web content—all while preserving the private information of students, faculty and administrators.
Solutions from Windstream:
Educational institutions need to invest in the right technology solutions to provide the high-performance necessary for bandwidth-intensive applications. Windstream delivers the network solutions you need to meet the current and evolving needs of your students, faculty, and staff, from distance learning and resource sharing, to online collaboration, Windstream’s extensive networking solutions provide the reliable and secure connections to handle all of your network traffic.
The education market is one of the largest currently striving for more bandwidth. All in an effort to satisfy their need for emerging, multimedia-rich applications. Windstream Ethernet Internet provides the bandwidth that education systems need to support next-generation applications like distance learning, on-campus security surveillance, and district-wide collaboration.
Use our private IP MPLS-based VPN to share information quickly and easily. Bridge the distance across campus or across multiple campus sites by providing full access to shared applications and resources, create real-time data exchange among users over a secure and reliable network, allowing students access to libraries and research and greater interaction between faculty and students.
The combination of video and interaction enables schools, colleges, and universities to extend instruction to students in any location with a network connection. Use the Web to integrate a wider range of activities—such as audio, video and Web conferencing—to enhance their experience and improve how the curriculum is taught.
A converged network makes the most of your available resources and allows you to meet your challenges head-on by creating a unified infrastructure that takes the place of separate networks for voice, video, and Internet applications, providing support for applications like Voice over IP, online classes, student/faculty collaboration, and interdepartmental research projects. Improve efficiency and cost savings by fully utilizing network resources.
Educational institutions face the challenge of protecting the privacy of student records and school information, and preventing infections that could damage the network. Education customers look to Windstream’s security solutions to reduce inappropriate content and exposure to potential liability; intrusions into academic record and exam data-stores; utilization of campus networks for illegal content sharing; rapid propagation of viruses, worms and other content-based threats.
Windstream provides a full range of IP telephony services to meet your needs. Whether you have a premise-based IP PBX, desire hosted IP PBX functionality, or desire a hybrid situation, experienced Windstream professionals can design a state-of-the art solution, providing your organization with the flexibility and expertise to meet the needs of higher education institutions.