School districts looking for creative ways to thrive despite diminished budgets are finding a surprisingly simple tactic. Replacing each school’s private branch exchange (PBX) systems with a centralized IP telephony system reduces costs every month and also has a strong impact on administrative efficiency, safety and security, and home-school communications.
Support for District Safety Plans
IP telephony also helps schools prepare for and respond to emergency incidents. Simply having a phone in every classroom improves the school’s security posture. At Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, teachers press one button on their classroom Cisco Unified IP phone to summon security personnel. Horizon Charter School of Lincoln, California, uses InformaCast software to send alerts to all sites through the phones’ builtin speakers. And Davis School District, near Salt Lake City, Utah, uses SchoolMessenger for Cisco Unified Communications to automatically call the homes of absent elementary school students who aren’t at school one hour after schools starts.
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