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Leading Japanese Educational Organization Selects Cabletron Convergence Solution
Cabletron Chosen to Enable Deployment of Multimedia Education
ROCHESTER, N.H. and HAMAMATSU, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 1999--Cabletron Systems (NYSE:CS - news) today announced that the Seirei Gakuen Educational Organization (SGEO), Japan's leading healthcare education center located in Hamamatsu City, has selected a Cabletron convergence solution to enable deployment of multimedia education. SGEO is Japan's national center for teaching and training the bulk of the country's healthcare workers, including nurses, midwifes and care workers.
SGEO's primary goal in implementing a new convergence strategy for multimedia was to enable its students to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their studies. This included the ability to prepare for upcoming classes by remotely reviewing lecture notes and materials. In addition, the new infrastructure had to enable individual PC access to both the Internet and the campus-wide LAN, irrespective of location.
A key element to the new communications infrastructure was the ability to ensure minimal congestion during periods of concentrated user access. By harnessing the power of Cabletron's high-performance, Layer 4 SmartSwitch Router (SSR) 8000, SGCO created a network that could apply guaranteed, end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) to multimedia content, as well as:
wire-speed Gigabit routing to support high-bandwidth applications;
bandwidth monitoring capabilities to understand application growth and plan future bandwidth requirements;
policy and accounting functionality to allocate costs to departments and bill students where appropriate and;
enhanced security features to ensure approved student access to course work and material.
``Our goal was to create a network that would be capable of meeting our needs throughout the next decade,' explained SGEO Administrative Director Ruka Horiguchi. ``We were specifically seeking to create an environment that would be able to support multimedia education. The environment would also have to support the rapid evolving information needs of our students, each of whom we expect to have their own personal computer within the next two to three years.'
At this stage, Cabletron's convergence solution for SGEO incorporates only the university, junior college and administrative offices. However, SGEO intends to expand the system to also incorporate its high school and training school. ``In order to stay competitive,' explained Horiguchi, ``Seirei needs to have advanced IS systems linking all of the facilities that the group owns and operates. We are confident that SGINS, with the help of Cabletron's SmartSwitch Router technology, will serve as a strategic infrastructure base as we work towards making this a reality.'
``Distributed learning will be one of the fastest areas of growth for interactive studies,' commented Nigel Kilpatrick, managing director of International Multimedia Corporation Limited (IMC), a leading independent global provider of multimedia applications, based in London, UK. ``Colleges and institutions of higher education are increasingly looking to provide on-line teaching environments for their campus-based students and to extend their courses and materials to off-campus students, effectively streamlining their business practices and generating incremental revenue. SGEO is a good example of how we see users implementing and utilizing multimedia applications,' added Kilpatrick.
About Seirei Gakuen Educational Organization (SGEO)
The Seirei Group has been a key player in the areas of education and healthcare in Japan. The group's educational activities are coordinated under the Seirei Gakuen Educational Organization (SGEO), which operates over half a dozen facilities in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, including a college and a junior college of nursing, as well as a training school for care workers. SGCO is committed to providing its faculty and students with the resources they need to keep pace with society's rapidly evolving needs.
About International Multimedia Corporation
International Multimedia Corporation (IMC) is the creator of Multimedia By The Minute(c), a new generation of multimedia packages and services for international enterprises, at a flat per-minute charge around the world. IMC is also the creator of Multimedia As You Like It(c), a quantum change in content-rich interactive personal entertainment packages for the travel industry, again at a flat per-passenger usage rate. For more information please visit eyemsee.com. |
