Equiinet in Education Overview

Equiinet pioneers technologies that enable school networks and the internet to be used to their full potential, working closely with the education sector to deliver unique solutions that make it effective, easy and safe to use the growing wealth of eLearning resources available.

Our understanding of schools' and colleges' needs has resulted in our solutions being chosen for many major LA-wide projects as well as for individual schools. Today, for instance, there are more than 12,000 CachePilot units in use, delivering eLearning content from leading Equiinet partners such as Espresso and Pearson.

Equiinet products not only provide excellent solutions for a wide range of application needs, but are also affordable and easy to install, use and maintain: vital issues for schools. We have specialised over the last ten years in technologies that are essential to underpin effective learning including caching and content delivery; data backup; security and eLearning platforms.

Equiinet's latest products use highly integrated converged technologies such as Voice over IP (VoIP), together with sophisticated Quality of Service (QoS) techniques to provide combined voice and data communications solutions for schools and businesses. This unified communications approach significantly improves flexibility while reducing both infrastructure and running costs. TinaPilot implements the blueprint for the next generation integrated appliance - Telephony Integrated Network Architecture (TINA).

The CachePilot family holds the widest range of content of any device available and makes media-rich eLearning materials instantly available in the classroom. Data backup is provided by BackupPilot, which ensures laptops, schools' PCs and servers - are always secure. Equiinet's eSafety solutions give schools the reassurance of both total network and pupil protection, while MoodlePilot makes it possible to run a wide range of SCORM-compliant content plus a huge variety of open source materials.

As digital-based tools – such as the internet and computer-based software –
become more and more important in the classroom, this can leave schools susceptible to problems. For almost ten years network technology specialist Equiinet has developed a comprehensive range of solutions that enhance and protect schools’ and colleges’ eLearning environments. Its market leading CachePilot range helps schools to use their networks to their full potential – so that a classroom full of students can access media-rich information or internet pages without any delay at all. BackupPilot automatically backs up all school data – even that on teachers’ laptops – without the need for any manual intervention, giving the reassurance that important work will never be lost. MoodlePilot enables personalised and easy-to-custom learning to take place within a secure environment and Equiinet’s eSafety products not only tackle traditional threats – such as viruses and hackers – but also newer problems such as cyber bullying.

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