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Supporting Student Notes:
Reduce Costs
Perspectives Charter Schools
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/voicesw/ps6788/vcallcon/ps11363/case_study_c36-727329.pdf
Partner: Singlepath
• Operates 5 open enrolment public schools in Chicago, IL, serving 2,300 students in 6-12 grades and 99% of the students were
accepted into college in 2012 with 90% of the students qualifying for free or reduced-price meals
• Replaced on-premise Cisco voice solution with voice services from the cloud based on Cisco HCS.
• Chose to shift capital expense to operating expense financial model by transition to cloud service.
• Lowered monthly TCO communications costs by 25% saving on costs for phone lines, maintenance, software support
contracts, repairs, and loss of productivity resulting from outages, while increasing reliability
• Improved school administrative efficiency with advanced collaboration capabilities
• Improved agility to focus on core educational priorities by offloading maintenance responsibilities from a small IT team
• Simplified E-Rate submissions by consolidating phone service and system maintenance under E-Rate Priority 1 funding
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