Regrouping 31 schools, 15,000 students and 2,300 administrative, teaching and support personnel in the state of Oklahoma, the Lawton Public School (LPS) District’s legacy phone systems are quite outdated, complex to manage and costly to maintain and operate. To help address these challenges, LPS decided to migrate all of their old landline-based phone systems to a next-generation internet-based system.
The E-MetroTel UCx VOIP solution was selected for its simple, cost-effective yet flexible and feature-rich architecture that consolidates all of the different phone systems into a single, centralized server platform without having to incur the high cost of immediately replacing hundreds of existing digital and analog phones. Technology partner Vic Telecommunications installed a high availability UCx1000E server in our central administration office that is networked using SIP trunks to survivable UCx20 servers in each of the schools, ensuring parents and personnel alike always have open lines of communication.
Everyone working at LPS will benefit from having access to the same new features and applications across the entire school district including call transfer, call recording, conferencing, unified messaging, voice-mail to text, notifier and scheduled announcement. We are expecting annual savings of $60,000 and are eager to have all our remaining schools transferred over to the UCx from E-MetroTel.
Zeldon D. Rice, Director Information Technology
Lawton Public Schools
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