ADTRAN Transforms Digital Learning Environment at Ranger College
26 April 2016 - 7:30PM
Business Wire
Cloud-managed services provide the network
foundation needed to support new technology initiatives in the
classroom
ADTRAN®, Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), today announced it created an
advanced digital learning environment for Ranger College, a
community college in rural Texas, with ProCloud Plus cloud-managed
wired and wireless network services. New learning applications,
delivered via the cloud and over Gigabit broadband and with
streaming media, are elevating educators’ abilities to create an
engaging learning environment and connect with tech-savvy students.
By leveraging ADTRAN’s ProCloud Plus managed services, Ranger
College is able to eliminate the typical operational and capital
costs that often preclude higher education IT institutions from
delivering the digital learning programs that prepare students to
compete in the data-driven workplace.
Students at Ranger College, like at most colleges and
universities across the U.S., come to class with a variety of
connected devices, so having a robust Wi-Fi infrastructure is
critical to keeping them connected and engaged. While these devices
enhance the students’ ability to learn, they also increase the
pressure on the IT support infrastructure and team. By outsourcing
its Wi-Fi and LAN services through ADTRAN ProCloud Services, the
college can now easily support all connectivity needs from the
classroom to the administrative offices. Ranger College now has the
confidence to scale new digital learning applications and services
as more come online. Ranger College was also able to layer on a
number of ADTRAN’s professional services, including initial site
surveys, installation, student and staff help desk, alert
monitoring and full system management as part of its new cloud
strategy. This integrated approach has had an immediate impact on
the college’s IT help desk by reducing service calls by over 90%
per week.
“It’s challenging for schools to keep up with the demand for
mobility and address the limits of traditional network architecture
in terms of its ability to handle the growing connectivity demands
in classrooms as the way we teach and students learn evolves,” said
Michael Beran, IT director, Ranger College. “Prior to ProCloud Plus
services, we had a variety of dissimilar, difficult-to-manage
access points with a lot of downtime and no way to pinpoint problem
areas. ADTRAN eliminates all those issues by providing a managed
service with a solid backbone.”
“Education is changing, both in terms of the readily available
online resources for teachers, and how tech-savvy students want to
learn, and it’s causing real challenges for IT departments that are
already strapped for resources,” said Todd Lattanzi, director,
cloud services portfolio, ADTRAN. “Enabling these higher education
IT teams to leverage a cloud-managed solution provides the critical
networking foundation that will allow them to stay ahead of the
learning curve and on budget.”
About ADTRAN
ADTRAN, Inc. is a leading global provider of networking and
communications equipment. ADTRAN’s products enable voice, data,
video and Internet communications across a variety of network
infrastructures. ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by service
providers, private enterprises, government organizations, and
millions of individual users worldwide. For more information,
please visit www.adtran.com.
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