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We call them the people network. The Network Behind The Network. The people who study the needs, design the system, figure out the issues, and help put the plans and recommendations in place. There are more of them, of course, but these are some of the folks who worked on the Jackson Public Schools ATM Network plan.
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"You need to focus on applications: what applications will solve the customers' needs. Then you look at what will carry those applications. For Jackson it was ATM."
"The key to all of this is we talked to everybody at JPS, to make sure we were addressing everybody's needs. To my knowledge, this is the first system of this type. It's a comprehensive personnel, inventory, student level management system. It is a customized system."
Mr. Irving Bullet, Account Manager
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"There's not really another technology that can do it all -- voice, video, and data. It's flexible, reliable, scaleable. And it's standards based, so everything will work with it."
"We worked both with the state and with JPS to make sure we knew what JPS wanted and delivered a system that would satisfy their needs."
Ms. Bibby King, ATM Product Manager
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"ATM gives JPS a migration path from where they are now to where they want to be, and still gives them the flexibility to grow the system in the future. There isn't another solution like it."
"It was a consultative solution. We learned what their business is, how they function, and what they're trying to accomplish."
Mr. Ed Tyler, Network Consultant
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"The needs of Jackson Public Schools are diverse and the ATM network allows them to run a number of different applications over one medium, avoiding many parallel systems. It allows them to optimize their network infrastructure needs."
"BellSouth has a reputation for supporting education initiatives in this community. We were able to demonstrate to the JPS management team how we could partner with them and positively impact their operations, both short- and long-term."
Patsy Tolleson, Public Affairs Manager
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"Like Jackson, many school districts operate separate legacy, voice, data, and video networks. ATM provides a flexible, reliable network capable of integrating these independent networks into a single multimedia network."
"Leadership is the key. Yesterday's networks were often managed by different people from multiple departments. For a successful migration, leadership and collaboration among the administrative team members is required."
Harry Cook, K-12 Education Industry Marketing Manager
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