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eZuce open communications have been adopted by several leading higher education institutions to help deliver a cost effective, enhanced communications experience to users throughout the campus facility while preserving their original IT investments.

Read more about eZuce and our successful installations at Cedarville University and Colorado State University.

EDU Users EDU Users

Universities, School Districts and Local Government adopters.

Colorado State University   University of British Columbia
University of California Davis   Brazos County
Hall Dale School District, ME   Winters Independent School District, Winters TX
 Washington and Lee University, VA   Cedarville University, OH    
Garrett County Government, MD   Universita Degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
 

Customer Testimonial Customer Testimonial

"Our campus has selected sipXecs as a strategic direction to replace our existing telephone switch, but more importantly as a scalable, open, full-featured communications platform to enhance communication and collaboration among our users. We have such confidence in the product that we have deployed it at our CSU System office. We now have a robust system in place, thanks to the great support provided by eZuce who performed the installation. We are also seeing both reduced costs and enhanced functionality, definitely a winning combination!"
Patrick Burns, VP for IT, Colorado State University

Patrick Burns, CIO from Colorado State University, sharing his experiences with sipXecs and SIPfoundry community.

Unified Communications For EDU - by EDU Unified Communications For EDU - by EDU

 SIPfoundry and eZuce collaborate directly with institutions of higher education to develop and deploy a communications system uniquely made for the education market.  Our goal is to replace the legacy, cost prohibitive phone systems with a software based application that integrates well into the diverse IT environments found at institutions of higher education.

The SIPfoundry EDU program is modeled after the Kuali Foundation with additional details available at sipfoundry.org. The 'For EDU - By EDU' approach saves significant money and gives institutions direct influence over the direction and roadmap of the development. Through active participation in the SIPfoundry EDU program educational institutions are contributing to the overall development priorities based upon their user requirements, thus greatly reducing overall project costs while accelerating the time to market for eZuce open source unified communication solutions.

One of the reasons eZuce solutions have strong appeal in the education marketplace is our extensive solution features and functionality we've developed to address the needs of education users. In particular, eZuce provides broad Instant Messaging (IM) client support with federation into public IM systems along with Windows, Mac, and Linux support. eZuce also easily integrates into fast evolving single sign-on (SSO) systems from a variety of vendors as well as synchronization of contacts and address book between different applications, including mobile devices.

Support for EDU Support for EDU

For investing institutions and EDU members of the SIPfoundry EDU program, eZuce offers comprehensive support for the sipXecs solution. One of the ways eZuce has accelerated unified communication projects for EDU members is through our comprehensive support services and ongoing collaboration through the SIPfoundry community to build a high quality, affordable, highly reliable, robust, and advanced unified communications solution that reflects the current needs and future requirements of its members.

For investing institutions and EDU members they benefit directly from their active participation through

  • Readily available access to the sipXecs open source code
  • Expert advise on installing the software and integrating it into their environment
  • Timely software patches, enhancements, and upgrades for the sipXecs software
  • Direct input and feedback on the sipXecs product roadmap for future development efforts
  • Membership in the sipXecs Policy Committee (SPC) and sipXecs Technical Committee (STC)

In exchange for participation in the SIPfoundry EDU program each eligible member contributes to the project through

  • Commitment to sipXecs as the replacement solution for their communication environment
  • Adoption of sipXecs as the de facto communication environment
  • Integration of sipXecs into IT environment and contributing code developed by institution employees
  • Appointment of individuals to participate in sipXecs Policy Committee (SPC) and sipXecs Technical Committee (STC)
Cedarville University Replaces Nortel 81c Cedarville University Replaces Nortel 81c

Cedarville University in Ohio started the replacement of their aging Nortel Meridian 81c system. 

Dave Rotman, Associate VP of Technology of Cedarville University offered this comment on the Educause CIO mailing list: "We have just begun a migration from a traditional Nortel PBX to sipXecs (www.sipfoundry.org, with commercial support from www.ezuce.com).  We have deployed 40 phones in Computer Services and have a plan to gradually expand across campus with a final total of about 1,200 phones."  And he continues:
 
"We selected sipXecs for a variety of reasons:  Belief in the open-source approach, the modular nature of the code base, and the scalability of the solution."
CSU Board of Governors Office Replaces Norstar with openUC CSU Board of Governors Office Replaces Norstar with openUC

Colorado State University deploys openUC at it's downtown Denver facility, replacing an old Nortel Norstar system.  The facility houses the Board of Governors of the university, continuing education services, post graduate studies, and a few administrative services.  CSU is planning to move all of it's extensions connected to a Nortel SL-100 system to sipXecs / openUC over time.  The Denver downtown facility is another step along this way and a very high profile one.  The facility is connected to the main campus in Ft Collins over a T1 circuit, allowing IP communications. A redundant openUC system was deployed with an Audiocodes Mediant 1000 for local PSTN connectivity.