TekNet IP^TM Communication System

TekNet IP^TM for K-12 Education is a total technology solution. School Buildings need Clocks, Bells, Public Address, Intercom, telephone systems, Video Surveillance and Video Distribution. TekNet IP^TM has the solution to effectively use your school's IP Data Infrastructure for all these and more school applications. CenturyLink makes technologies work seamlessly together, enabling teachers, administrators, and students to access new resources, stay in touch, and schedule resources quickly and easily.

TekNet IP^TM helps enhance every aspect of your school’s operation:

Maximizes the Benefits of Technology^TM By uniting all equipment for one interactive voice, video, and data solution, TekNet IP^TM provides powerful tools at an affordable price - a vital concern when education budgets are tight.

Enhances the Learning Experience - Students watch subjects spring to life through multimedia presentations, while teachers easily control centralized media through the telephone keypad or classroom computer.

Improves Productivity - Streamline operations by automating your school's many administrative functions. Authorized users can synchronize clocks, program bell schedules, signal alarms, and communicate with classrooms, all from one location.

Saves Time and Money - TekNet IP^TM is built on industry standards rather than proprietary equipment, so you can use your existing equipment and easily integrate new features as your needs and facilities grow.

Keeps Employees Connected - The system integrates all critical resources, from paging and public address systems to audio-visual equipment. All technologies stay in touch and work together, so everyone at your school can too.

Prepares for the Future - Because TekNet IP^TM uses open architecture for dependability and expansion, it’s easy to tap into the latest communications capabilities like interactive media, computer networking, video conferencing, and distance learning. TekNet IP^TM software offers web-based solutions that empower every user with the convenience of integrated communications and the benefits of the internet.

TekNet IP^TM brings you all the benefits of state-of-the-art communications with the convenience of a user-centered system, providing:

• A fully integrated communications system
• Centralized media and powerful video capabilities
• Automated administrative functions
• Web-enabled applications
• Open architecture and modular design

TekNet IP^TM is an integrated communications system that unites voice, video, and data technologies to create convenient communications for users. It strategically places telephones, televisions, LCD panels, projectors, speakers, and computers near users, increasing efficiency, optimizing resources, and delivering important benefits:

• Users focus on the message, rather than the message carrier
• Every area is equipped with telephone, broadband or IP video, and network access
• Easy upgrade and expansion of technologies
• Minimal use of expensive proprietary products
• Reduced costs for maintenance of audio-visual equipment
• Existing equipment is integrated and positioned

TekNet IP^TM eliminates unnecessary isolation and duplication of technologies. With TekNet IP^TM, every technology is a possible link to every other. A teacher can control centralized media resources or video on demand from the classroom,: administrator can make a public address announcement by simply picking up the phone, send an electronic bulletin from any computer on the LAN or WAN; students broadcast live to the classrooms from any location in the school.

Administration tools provide your school with solutions like a synchronized bell & clock system that can be as accurate as the atomic clock. And it is known that the school’s clock and bells are the rhythm of the school’s operation. Electronic bulletins that are simple to program, to alert students of upcoming events or to reinforce those Public Address announcements. Alert bulletins for those emergency situations.

Learning tools that teachers and administrators can use to effectively communicate to their students. Use school video broadcast or pre- recorded educational videos to keep students interested and informed. Or use digital video to broadcast to other classrooms across the district. All programmed and controlled through the school’s data, voice and video network.

The TekNet IP^TM philosophy for the past 20 years has been and continues to be a telephone in every classroom, not an intercom or intercom phone. This is the lifeline for a teacher, student or an administrator. Technologies such as IP Telephones can provide the same capability as an intercom system, with the much added value of emergency, classroom to classroom, main office, and most importantly parent communications.