CCSD-Ranked #1

On October 27, 2010, in EDUCATION, GCSR, by admin
GCSR is proud to announce that teh Clark County School District, NV, one of our premier customers, has been named #1 for Large Districts in the Center for Digital Education's 2010 Digital School Districts Survey. On October 19, 2010, Converge Magazine published the results of their annual survey on the K12 Technology Utilization. The results [...]

CCSD Named Top Large District in Converge: Top 10 U.S. School Districts in Digital Technology

On October 27, 2010, in EDUCATION, GCSR, by admin
2010 Digital School Districts Survey -- Top Ten-Ranking Winners Large Student Population Category - More than 15,000 students: 1st Clark County School District, Nev. “With rising expectations and shrinking resources, these districts have utilized technology to effectively serve their students, educators, and community members,” said NSBA’s Executive Director Anne L. Bryant. “School boards across the [...]

K12 Fiber WAN Design Rules and Considerations

On October 22, 2010, in EDUCATION, by admin
1- Any infrastructure that supports essential services needs to provide carrier class reliability, therefore a school network needs to have carrier class reliability. 2- Only the very biggest districts should consider dark fiber (Clark County, NV-greater than 300 schools). 3- Any provider of fiber dark or lit fiber must be able to provide 24 hr/day [...]

CoSN Presentation Accepted

On October 19, 2010, in EDUCATION, GCSR, by admin
We are proud to announce that the Consortium of School Networking (cosn.org) an organization dedicated to “ Advancing K-12 Technology Leadership” has accepted a proposal by Dr. Phil Brody and Ivan Sindell for a 55 minute presentation for the CoSN Spring Conference in New Orleans, LA, March 14-16, 2011. Our presentation titled, “Adapting to Changing [...]

CoSN Reports

On July 22, 2010, in EDUCATION, by admin
GCSR  provided leadership for the creation of  two Emerging Technology Reports for the Consortium of School Networking (www.cosn.org). Founded in 1992, the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) is the premier professional association for school district technology leaders. CoSN is committed to providing the leadership, community and advocacy tools essential for the success of these leaders. [...]

CCSD: VoIP Trunks 26,000 Phones

On May 20, 2010, in CCSD WAN & VoIP, EDUCATION, by admin
Alcatel System Installed in > 300 schools In Everyclass Room Flat Network Minimized new cable infrastructure We manged  Requirements Developmenta and Procurement >$10M, On time and on budget

School District WAN: Oswego, IL

On May 5, 2010, in EDUCATION, by admin

School District WAN: Clark County, NV

On May 4, 2010, in EDUCATION, by admin
The fifth largest school district in the United States determined that it wanted to interconnect more than 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 [...]