Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Telepresence vendor, Tandberg and IT services provider, Dimension Data, have inked a contract with the NSW Department of Training and Education (DET) to video enable every state school and TAFE college in the state as part of the government’s $158 million connected classroom project.
Under the contract, Tandberg says it will
partner with Dimension Data to provide upgraded core video conferencing
infrastructure for access by schools and TAFE colleges in NSW as part
of the project, which gives staff and their students new opportunities
to connect with each other across enhanced facilities for sharing
resources and data collaboration.
Philip Siefert, Australian and New Zealand regional director for
Tandberg, say the two companies will deliver a solution with capacity
for the department to securely connect 2,200 locations via multi-site
high-definition video and audio conferencing.
“Once fully deployed, students from any NSW state school will have
increased capacity to interact with each other and receive course
material irrespective of both their location and the teacher delivering
the lesson.
“DET’s interactive classrooms allow students to take virtual excursions
anywhere in the world, while schools will be able to beam experts into
classrooms for real-time lectures, communicate with peers in other
parts of the state, and significantly expand subject choice by
providing classes online through videoconferencing.”
According to Siefert, the initial deployment of video conferencing
technology has already had a big positive impact on NSW school
students, and, she says “by utilising the bridging technology from this
project, it will raise collaborative learning in our state education
system to a whole new level.”
Dimension Data NSW state manager, Pete Murray, says the partnership
with Tandberg and DET is “building on the good work we have been doing
to date for DET in the areas of video, IP telephony and security.”
David Bass
| For the fourth year in a row, IDC has placed content security provider Websense (NASDAQ: WBSN) at the top of the IDC Worldwide Web Security 2011 –…
How to Make Business Discovery Work for Your Business
Business Discovery takes its cues from consumer apps. Like Google, it encourages us- ers to hunt for and explore data without worrying about or even noticing the underly- ing technology. Their entire experience is working within an intuitive interface to get real-time, self-service results with only minimal training. ...more
Try an easy-to-use set of web-enabled
tools for business-class productivity services. Office 365 provides
anywhere-access to email, important documents, contacts, and calendars
on almost any device.
Latest Headlines from IT INDUSTRY
