Alcatel Carrier Internetworking Solutions K-12 manual WHY Partner with ALCATEL-LUCENT

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.

Success Story

Hamilton Southeastern School District

Location: Fishers, IN

(in suburban Indianapolis)

Solution: Powerful data networking with secure wireless LAN solution

To keep pace with explosi ve growth in the student population , Hamilto n Southeast ern constant ly updates its technology, maintain ing state- of-the-art communicat ions system s for access to services such as the Internet and to student databases. One of the major challen ges for the district was to provide mobility for students and teachers so they can incorpo rate the power of computers into the classroom .

The district chose an Alcatel-Lucent solution that upgraded their network core to a gigabit MAN and added wireless data network ing.

The solution delivered:

￿Fast, reliabl e wireless Internet access across district locations

￿Virtu al LANs to segregate user traffic and provide secure

access to the appropriate applications

￿Intelli gent netwo rk engineering with redun dancy and high

port densi ty

￿Easy installati on with minimal impact on management of the network

“It’s always nicer to be in the position where you can look back and say ‘Yes, I made the right decision.’ We’ve had good help from Alcatel- Lucent. We consider Alcatel-Lucent to be a partner in every sense.”

Jay Denney, Assistant Direc tor of Technolog y

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