Bangkok--20 Oct--Weber Shandwick
Students and staff at King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) Faculty of Information Technology are enjoying a new level of collaborative learning after it implemented a tightly integrated unified communications solution from Nortel* [NYSE/TSX: NT] and Microsoft*.
KMITL Faculty of Information Technology recently implemented the unified communications solutions from the Innovative Communications Alliance, a collaboration between Nortel and Microsoft that breaks down the barriers across voice, email, conferencing, video, instant messaging and presence applications to provide anytime, anywhere collaboration. Students and staff have unprecedented, real-time access to online multimedia learning resources and to each other, helping them capitalize on the benefits of Hyperconnectivity, the new era of communications in which anything that can be connected to the network, is connected.
Established in 1960 as a specialized technical university with engineering and architecture faculties, KMITL has rapidly expanded to serve its students in eight technical disciplines across three campuses. As a leading institution for technical education, it has always sought to give its students and staff access to the latest technologies, and recognized the value of providing the latest unified communications solutions.
“Effective learning comes from smooth, easy and speedy communication,” said Dr. Chanboon Sathitwiriyawong, Dean of Faculty of Information Technology, KMITL. “Supporting our students and staff with a university-wide approach to unified communications gives them invaluable new tools to enhance their learning experience, and fosters an entirely new breed of collaboration that isn’t limited by physical boundaries across voice, email, and other forms of communication. The Innovative Communications Alliance simplified our move to unified communications, helping our students get online and productive as quickly as possible. Being the first university in Thailand to implement a complete unified communications solution, we have clearly demonstrated our ability to stay at the forefront of technology.”
“With so many brilliant young minds in one place, universities are hotbeds of innovation where any new collaboration technology will soon find a role,” said James Demers, Vice President, ASEAN & Pakistan, Nortel. “The school’s implementation of campus-wide unified communications capabilities not only paves the way to enhanced forms of learning, but helps the university distinguish itself among its peers in Thailand and around the world.”
“The Innovative Communications Alliance is all about empowering users with the tools for better collaboration,” said Patama Chantaruck, Managing Director of Microsoft. “By tightly integrating our technologies together, we have been able to provide a complete unified communications solution that will permanently improve the way KMITL students and staffs collaborate online. Geographical limitation of distant campuses will no longer be a barrier for teachers and students to communicate and collaborate.”
KMITL Faculty of Information Technology’s unified communications solution combines Nortel Communication Server 1000 (CS 1000) and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007** to provide one-click access to a broad range of collaboration capabilities. KMITL Faculty of Information Technology is one of hundreds of organizations that have embraced the Innovative Communications Alliance since it was formed in July 2006. The solution helps companies transform business communications by taking the complexity out of implementing unified communications.
About Nortel
Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that make the promise of Business Made Simple a reality for our customers. Our next-generation technologies, for both service provider and enterprise networks, support multimedia and business-critical applications. Nortel’s technologies are designed to help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people to the information they need, when they need it. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries around the world. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com. For the latest Nortel news, visit www.nortel.com/news.
About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
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