By Bo Gowan
1 October 2008
10:52 am EDT
CRN Australia has a great article today about RMIT, a university based in Melbourne that is working with Nortel to completely update their network across three main campuses and 150 sites. Nortel actually announced the contract with RMIT back in February, but this article by CRN Australia goes into great detail on their plans and progress via an interview with Allan Morris, the executive director of IT services for RMIT.
The end goal of the 2+ year, $10 million project is a campus-wide VoIP and unified communications network, as well as a variety of new communications and collaboration services.
RMIT will use the Nortel CS 1000 IP-PBX and MCS 5100 will be …
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By Bo Gowan
21 February 2008
9:02 am EST
This week is “Education Week” at Nortel, and as such we are highlighting a panoply of Nortel education customers and activities to show how Nortel is transforming the educational environment through innovations in unified communications, advanced security and wireless mobility designed to enhance collaboration and enrich the learning experience.
Nortel has announced recent implementations that are helping to make education possible for K-12 and higher education students across the globe - from Kentucky to India to Australia. In North America, the State of Kentucky, the first state to bring broadband Internet access into every public school, is further enriching the K-12 learning experience with intelligent classrooms and online tools for collaboration and assessment based on an education network solution …
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