Campus Safety magazine recently released an emergency notification cheat sheet that lists the strengths and weaknesses of the most commonly used emergency alert systems on the market.
LAUSD turned to Cisco and its partner, Singlewire, to accomplish its goals, moving from a decentralized to a centralized solution that provided a robust notification system for all of its schools to utilize across the district.
InformaCast provided us with a unified system with ease of management that allows us to even communicate with the baseball field and the weightlifting room wirelessly.
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— Elena Alvarez, Technology Director, Christopher Columbus High School —
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Bells and paging are one of the most important things for schools... in my opinion, it’s still the most critical, and so choosing the right system and the right partner is very important. The Singlewire system has fit the bill for us.
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— David Massaro, Coordinator of Technology Services at Redlands Unified School District —
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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 —
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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 —
