The FINANCIAL — Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) announced on November 2 it has been selected by the International School of Beijing (ISB) to deploy a high speed wired and wireless network for its campus in Beijing.
The new network, which is now operational, allows ubiquitous broadband access for almost 2,000students, teachers and school staff.The contract was signed through Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell, Alcatel-Lucent’s Chinese flagship company.
With Alcatel-Lucent’s solutions for education, ISB can deliver sophisticated multi-media instructional tools in its programs. The campus network can also support an increasing number of mobile devices with streamed audio and video content.
“Alcatel-Lucent will provide ISB with a network solution incorporating 802.11n WiFi and 10G PoE LAN switch. All users will have on-demand, ‘anytime, anywhere’ access to a reliable, robust, and stable high-speed wired and wireless network, supporting an increasing number of mobile client devices, and an increasing amount of streamed audio and video content,” said Russell Layton, the school’s ICT Director.
"Deploying a secure and easy to use network environment will help ISB provide differentiated services to their staff and students,” said Olivia Qiu, President of Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell and Alcatel-Lucent in East Asia. “As a leading telecom provider in the vertical industry, Alcatel-Lucentis happy to support ISB and other high-end education customers in their technology transformation.”
Alcatel-Lucent helps its enterprise, vertical and public sector customers transform to a more dynamic communications infrastructure by delivering secure, end-to-end, business-critical communications that help them make money and save money. The Alcatel-Lucent portfolio makes it easier for people to share mission-critical multimedia information in real time.
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