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Affordable and easy ways to save money and prepare your campus for the IT needs of tomorrow.

Emergency notifications

iCOMPEL™

Enterprise wireless system

SmartPath™

Digital KVM extension

ServSwitch™ Agility

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Maximize your technology investments.You need to get the most from your budget as you upgrade and expand your network. Let the experts at Black Box help by designing, sourcing, and implementing innovative solutions including:

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The easiest way to alert and inform students and staff.• Foraffordablycreating,distributing,andmanagingcontent.• Canbesetuptoplayvideo,liveTV,andWebcontent,including

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via a standard Web browser.• Integratedhardware/softwaredevices.Includeallthedrag-and-drop

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with a school’s logo.

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Award-Winning Solutions

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SmartPath™ Enterprise WirelessGive your students, staff, and faculty fast seamless connectivity that rivals a wired network.• Easilyintegratean802.11nwirelesssystem

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Student-Teacher Collaboration with the Wireless Video Presentation System IIIMakes student-teacher collaboration easy.• Enablesupto254userstowirelesslysendtheir

computer video and audio to a projector from wheretheysit—upto300feet(91.4m)away.*

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White PapersDigitalSignageinHigherEducationExtendingtheLifeofYourDataCenter

Case StudiesSucceedingwithDigitalSignage:LaRocheCollegeUniversityofNewMexicoVoicemailSystemCarlowCollegeTelecommInfrastructure

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The backgroundNamed one of the “Best Northeastern Colleges” by the Princeton

Review for six consecutive years, La Roche College in suburban Pittsburgh has taken pride in offering students a cutting-edge education and individualized attention combined with technology.

Carrying these student-focused technology initiatives forward, the private Catholic college of 1350 students wanted to enhance and centralize campus communications with digital signage. The renovation of its John J. Wright Library and updating of its technology made it an ideal time to consider the installation of campus signage.

When it came time to choose a system for the management of signage content, the college had specific objectives in mind. “Our goal was to use the system for communication with students, wayfinding information, emergency notifications, and central management of information flow,” said Terri Ballard, director of information technology for La Roche College.

The college’s public relations, food service management, and athletics management departments would, at least initially, share the responsibility of uploading information and ensuring that content is accurate, fresh, timely, and interesting.

The solutionLa Roche College ended up choosing Black Box’s iCOMPEL™,

an integrated hardware/software platform loaded with features often found only on higher-priced systems.

Ballard cited several reasons for choosing Black Box‘s solution. “We found Black Box pricing was very competitive,” she said. “Of equal importance was that Black Box provided all of the features we were looking for.”

These features included iCOMPEL support for the central management of content, the ability to override content for emergency notifications, and its ease of use.

“We found Black Box pricing was very competitive. Of equal importance was that Black Box provided all of the features we were looking for.”

Terri Ballard, Director of Information Technology, La Roche College

“This Black Box system also addressed our plan to centralize management of campus-wide dissemination of information,” Ballard said.

To read the rest of the case study and to see more photos, go to blackbox.com/go/CS.

Case Study

Industry: Education

La Roche College

Project: New digital signage system

Major challenges: Short time for implementation