SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
Feb. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/
-- Agora.io, the leading voice, video and live interactive
streaming platform, teamed up with New Oriental Education &
Technology Group Inc.(NYSE: EDU), one of the largest providers of
private educational services in the world and a leader in the
Chinese market, to launch the "New Oriental Cloud Classroom," a
remote, interactive classroom experience to aid in the displacement
of students and teachers during the coronavirus outbreak. Bringing
more than one million students into virtual classrooms in just
seven days' time, this joint project is the latest enterprise
application of Agora's real-time engagement platform.
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"Without the efforts of the New Oriental Live Broadcasting team
and Agora.io, the quick launch of the platform would have not been
possible," said Yu Minhong, Chairman of the New Oriental Education
Technology Group. "Over seven days, the teams collaborated closely
to ensure that we could deliver a solution to help support the more
than one million students and teachers during this national
crisis."
The cloud-based classrooms provide a much needed alternative to
traditional physical classrooms, and they touted powerful,
interactive features:
- A student is able to address the classroom individually using
voice or video capabilities.
- Teachers can "take a student aside" and have a private,
one-on-one session.
- Students can break away from the larger classroom and work in
smaller groups powered by video conferencing
"In the face of the coronavirus epidemic, schools, companies and
educational institutions realized there is a clear need for a
stable online learning environment for students and teachers," said
Tony Zhao, CEO of Agora.io. "We knew
we had the technical expertise, technology and experience, and we
felt confident we could meet the critical scalability needs very
quickly, based on our past work with enterprise-level users. This
project was extremely important to us because it is essential to
maintain continuity for both students and schools impacted by the
Coronavirus outbreak."
Aside from the pressure to provide continuity of education, the
two companies needed to build a solution with an understanding that
users would be challenged with highly congested networks. Any such
solution would have to be resilient and highly scalable across the
globe. With many institutions turning to online classrooms, and
extremely high-traffic data usage during the Chinese Spring
Festival holiday, the project needed a platform that could handle
the congestion and still perform without fail. Agora's
Software-Defined Real-time Network (SD-RTN ™ ), the company's
dedicated network designed for low-latency and high-scale, was
capable of handling the sudden spike in demand and, more
critically, doubling the scale of users nearly overnight.
In recent days, cities like San
Francisco have declared a state of emergency due to the
fast-growing threat of coronavirus in the U.S. Many business,
healthcare, educational, and governmental organizations are looking
for reliable telecommute, telemedicine, and teleschooling solutions
capable of handling rapid, enterprise-scale deployment.
Solutions like Agora's real-time engagement platform have proven
to perform time and again.
To learn more about Agora.io's powerful real-time communications
technology, visit https://www.agora.io/en/.
About Agora.io
Agora.io helps apps increase user engagement and
retention with a developer platform for live, interactive audio,
video, and messaging features at planetary scale. With a dedicated
network and device-optimized SDKs, Agora is the only real-time
engagement platform designed to cross borders and reach users on
low-bandwidth networks and on lower-powered devices.
About New Oriental Education & Technology Group
Inc.
New Oriental is the largest provider of private educational
services in China based on the
number of program offerings, total student enrollments and
geographic presence. New Oriental offers a wide range of
educational programs, services and products consisting primarily of
language training and test preparation, primary and secondary
school education, online education, content development and
distribution, overseas study consulting services, pre-school
education and study tour. New Oriental's ADSs, each of which
represents one common share, currently trade on the New York Stock
Exchange under the symbol "EDU."
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