During their renovations, the Bath Central School District decided they
needed to bring their communication system into the 21st century. Because
they were limited by financial and staffing restrictions, Christopher Smith,
responsible for educational technology and communication services, contacted
IBM for help. Drawing on knowledge gained from previous experiences, IBM was
able to help Bath Central School District choose the technologies and
strategies that best suited its needs. Now their own IP-based system has
enabled the school district to extend its communications network enabling users
to use phones, browsers, or mobile devices to receive and respond to messages
no matter what format they were received in. Unified messaging helped them
eliminate a large number of phone lines and the associated dial-up costs, and
freed up the time they would have spent trouble-shooting network issues to
create an engaging learning environment.

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