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Global Communications
Systems Research
200 N. Columbus St.
Alexandria, VA 22314
703.299.1500 |
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The sixth largest
school district in the United States determined that it wanted to
interconnect its 300 schools and administrative facilities spread
over a 150 by 100 mile area with an IP gigabit Ethernet
network. Over this network the District intended to overlay a VoIP
telephone system with a phone to every one of the 16,000 classrooms
and 12,000 administration desks, high speed video including 80
streaming channels and 1000 Video-on-Demand channels, as well as
video conferencing. The overall budget is approximately $100M.
Global's Role:
- Provide independent technical and management expertise in data,
voice and video to the project manager/CTO
- Serve on the project steering committee for day to day and
strategic management of all phases the project
- Manage other consultants and direct their activities
- Participate in all RFI, RFP and vendor evaluation activities
- Validate all processes (Independent Validation and Verification)
- Ensure Requirements coverage
- Develop Alternative technical solutions
- Provide in depth technical analysis
- Provide Specialized Technical Analysis- (Wireless Trunking
Solution)
- Ensure load and traffic modeling reflected the requirements
Outcome:
- Procurement for Dark Fiber, WAN electronics, Voice System
and LAN Electronics completed in June 2004
- 300 sites have fiber300 sites are on the Gigabit WAN
- 200 Sites have new PBX's networked over the WAN
- More than 16,000 phones are installed
- All systems are ahead schedule and under budget
- WAN is transporting video conferencing, streaming video and
Video on Demand
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K-12 Safety
and
Security
Assessment
Special Offer
800-686-2085
LATEST PROJECTS
Large K-12 District Security
Technology Plan
CDMA product testing for National
product rollout of Wireless Priority Service (WPS)for
Verizon Wireless
Video Conferencing infrastructure
with scheduling and management software and hardware
for MAN Gigabit Network
K12 Security System Evaluation for
large District
Consortium of School Networking
(CoSN) Report on Collaboration Project Management by
Ivan Sindell
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