As existing network infrastructures continue to age in schools, learning facilities, and on campuses, it becomes harder to accommodate increased demand in the connected classroom. The list of activities taxing today’s education network is long: greater need for IT security, access and activity monitoring, learning via social media, the use of multimedia as a default, streaming video employed both as an instructional method and as a tool for faculty collaboration, flipped learning, gamification as a lesson component… the list goes on and on. Throw the escalating use of distance learning into the mix and it’s easy to see that most networks are being pushed to the edges of capability. Though these are common problems, they need not be barriers to reliable, secure, and worry-free education delivery.
By integrating physical school and campus spaces with digital capabilities, students and staff on the modern campus enjoy instant access to lessons and data. IoT (Internet of Things) adapts easily and seamlessly to the needs of education, security, and accessibility for an intuitive education experience. Digital communication and collaborative tools such as Zoom and Webex empower faculty; these tools also facilitate continuous learning, regardless of whether faculty members are local or remote.
Black Box bridges the IT gap – we design, deploy, and manage your IT for a fast and reliable rollout. That way, you can focus on education while your IT remains fully supported and worry-free.
Mobile technologies and IoT enable significant improvements in campus safety, resource allocation, and enhanced access to information in the learning environment. Building on a digitally native foundation, every aspect of instruction delivery – including smart boards and digital signage – works seamlessly and effortlessly.
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Enhancing data security is necessary. Increased mobility of devices and the use of external collaborative learning tools create a growing concern among IT personnel and administration. Enlist a partner who can design and implement solid and secure strategies to secure any network.
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Support today’s hybrid delivery of education with digital learning platforms designed to be used by all faculty, regardless of experience level or extent of training. Improve the learning experience by providing faculty and staff a full collaborative environment unencumbered by bandwidth limitations
Know MoreEnsuring exemplary delivery of instructional materials and optimized staff workflows is at the heart of your educational structure, but it is all powered by an enhanced nervous system of foundational IT. With the right human-friendly technology, mobile devices help students and teachers complete tasks from any location at any time and also reduce gaps in learning due to disruption of in-person education.
Creating an all-encompassing education solution may seem like a daunting task and the demands are high. Today’s classrooms require reliable real-time collaborative applications. Black Box offers innovative solutions that transform the way students and faculty interact. Leading-edge technology bolsters student interaction and presentation. Using new technology, teachers can present mixed delivery of group discussions to both seated and remote students and ask questions to the class in an instant. Whether you’re building the perfect system for BYOD use in higher education or preparing 1:1 classrooms in primary and secondary education, Black Box solutions help create an environment that fosters collaborative learning while optimizing the student and staff experience.
Broadcast emergency notifications, provide interactive wayfinding, and display live feeds to promote student and staff safety and engagement.
Easily locate and instantly schedule rooms and facilities from an intuitive and fully customizable interface. Pairing iCompel with Reserva provides a dynamic communications platform for internal and external use.
Cabling is the backbone of your communications system. Copper, fiber, custom, or standard, Black Box has the cables you need in many colors and lengths to support installations of any size.
Explore our comprehensive portfolio of Networking products and solutions to create a secure, reliable, and scalable network, all while reducing operations costs.
Gaming-ready AV systems overcome poor image quality, lag, artifacting, and screen tearing. Extend up to 4K 60Hz video to an unlimited number of displays without impacting latency in real-time. Complete control of your AV system is guaranteed.
Learn how clients realized significant cost savings and optimized efficiency by investing in education technologies that maximize in-person and virtual collaboration, provide affordable anywhere connectivity, and engage student and staff experiences with their trusted partner, Black Box.
Thomas College in Maine sought to upgrade its communication infrastructure during its expansion. The college replaced its existing video signage system, ThomasTV, due to bandwidth issues. Black Box's iCompel was chosen for its ease of use and bandwidth efficiency. The system allows customized content delivery across campus, meeting the college's requirements and supporting its growth.
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La Roche College, a prestigious institution, sought to enhance campus communication with digital signage. They chose Black Box's iCompel solution for central management of digital signage content, emergency notifications, and ease of use, benefiting multiple departments.
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Cambridgeshire County Schools required a flexible networking solution to bring regional broadband to its district as part of the “Connected Learning Project.” The installation demanded business-quality integrated data networks across fifty schools and was intended to provide the infrastructure for a new, regional broadband network. Black Box entered at Phase One to ensure work proceeded safely and properly.
A group of 17 middle schools in and around the Danish city of Elsinore relied on a centralized IT department with seven staff members to provide technical support to all its students and faculty. The distance between schools and unpredictable demand for IT support proved to be challenging hurdles. Black Box entered the project and recommended Emerald KVM with exemplary results.
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An out-of-date communications system sees its last days, ushering in a new, fully-capable, multi-use system oriented in IT and capable of delivering multimedia as well as traditional VoIP applications. Fears of an impending crash of the old equipment were laid to rest and a new cost-effective unified system was installed courtesy of Black Box’s team of communications experts.
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The COVID-19 pandemic forced one of the top business schools in Canada to stop holding classes in their lecture halls. However, they still needed to teach their students who had already paid tuition. Their plan was to extend live video streams of their professors teaching in empty lecture halls to remote students. Black Box was happy to continue its relationship with the existing customer by recommending KVX Extenders.
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