Using Advanced Network Devices IP speakers throughout the building to provide clear audio and scrolling announcements. With the help of InformaCast, he and his team have been able to drastically improve how they schedule bells, configure zones and send messages.
During this year’s Cisco Live event, Kevin Holcomb, Technical Marketing Engineer for Cisco, recorded several videos demonstrating how K-12 schools can enhance security with Cisco and InformaCast.
Advanced systems can tie into legacy paging systems and security features, such as door locks, to help leverage existing technology and offer additional opportunities to increase security at schools.
Over the summer, schools in Tampa Bay reassessed their speaker and zone controller needs and installed Wahsega Labs’ Two-Classroom 2x2 Ceiling Speaker. These cost-effective speakers integrate with InformaCast to provide a secure learning environment.
Attendees will hear from leading safety and security experts, develop strategies and tactics to reduce risk and improve response and learn first-hand about best practices and procedures for emergency response.
… InformaCast is really the glue for our notification - it can pull in email, our phone system, our speaker system, our visible security system, locks, and make it all work together.
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— Shandor Simon, Director of Information Technology, Latin School of Chicago —
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…It provides a consistent means of communicating and informing regarding an incident to, not just our first responders in those multiple agencies, but also to our staff and parents who are in multiple buildings, and our students in multiple buildings.
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— Tom Wohlleber, Assistant Superintendent of Business Services, MCPASD —
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It worked very successfully. We were able to do a complete lockdown on our whole campus within about five minutes of initiating the alert to people.
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— Rob Crockett, Network Administrator, Ouachita Baptist University —
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The fact that we can use [InformaCast] for both audio alerting and visual alerting, that was great.
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— Dan Carrion, Senior Voice Engineer, JOY Global —
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I like using it, because it’s a simple product to use. You can see behind it that it is a quality product; professionally-built and well-designed.
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— Terry Oakley, Telecommunications Coordinator, Red Deer College —
