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Tulsa Technology Center, the oldest and largest career and technology education center in Oklahoma, has chosen XETA Technologies to deploy the largest Nortel/Microsoft (News - Alert) unified communications (UC) platform to date, the company announced today.

 

The platform is expected to save hundreds of thousands of dollars for the school and improve student-teacher communication.

 

With the help of a Microsoft program, Sharepoint, the new UC platform will connect the school’s approximately 700 staff members and 3,000 students, allowing teachers to conduct class with virtually any student, anywhere. As long as the student is logged on to the school’s Sharepoint Web site, he will be ‘attending’ the class. Looking to keep students in touch with classmates, teachers and other subject-matter experts after leaving Tulsa Tech, the site also will function as a social network.

 

Aiming to combine the phone and Internet access into a single system, XETA deployed Nortel’s (News - Alert) cutting-edge CS1000 Voice-over Internet Protocol (VOIP) platform in August. Next week, XETA will integrate Tulsa Tech’s e-mail network into the system, which will add virtual communication capabilities for audio, video and web conferencing as well as a variety of other features.

 

With this deployment, Tulsa Tech staff members will have direct access to voicemail from their e-mail accounts. They can also click their mouse to dial a person they are trying to reach, and the network automatically will tell the dialer whether the person is already on the line or writing an e-mail. With the help of this voice-driven feature, the staff can vocally transcribe, send and receive e-mails, as well as access e-mails audibly.

 

“We are excited to expand our partnership with Tulsa Tech to include their Microsoft OCS integration,” said Scott Davis, Executive Director of Sales for XETA, a Broken Arrow, Oklahoma-based national provider of converged voice and data communications solutions. “From simplifying IT efforts to increasing efficiency, consolidation of the school’s communications into one delivery system, will ultimately enhance student-teacher interaction across all four Tulsa Tech campuses.”