On the voice side, teachers and administrators are now able to send and receive voice mail via a common system. Prerecorded messages enable students and parents to call for homework assignments, lunch menus, event calendars, and to check for early closing or late opening due to weather or other conditions. The system also queues incoming calls, rather than giving busy signals, a further nod to providing improved services. Laying Out The Plan Having completed the installation of the network backbone to support voice and data, the base network will be implemented in three phases, all of which will be completed in 1997. The card catalog system in each school library is now online.
Telephones are in each classroom and voice mail application is in place.
This phase was completed in April 1997 . In one year we will have gone from having to send mail between schools, to watching volcanoes erupt via the Internet. The System Lewisburg Area School District already leased Mitel SX-2000 PBXs from BVT and were very happy with the system but needed to add more capability. These hubs were retained for use with the NeVaDa system. The network provides very high bandwidth capabilities that enable the schools to expand the amount of data transmitted while guaranteeing service levels to support high-quality voice traffic.