CENTREX/CENTRON® family of services
The CENTREX family of services are a Central Office based product that allows your school to grow without continually replacing outdated equipment. Sometimes products are differentiated for what they do not do. No space is required on site for voice communications switching equipment. No complicated system is needed to manage and/or maintain the system. CENTREX will pull the communications systems together for both the students and the school. The system is tailored to the individual needs of the schools and will fit their needs both today and tomorrow. CENTREX service will never grow obsolete.

Qwest Remote Access Services (RAS)
Qwest Remote Access Services (RAS) is a complete business remote access solution that enables a school to outsource the burden, complexity and risk of managing their intranet system. Remote Access Services is designed to enable employees and students to remotely access their school intranet at anytime from almost anywhere utilizing almost any type of access media at a considerably lower price than a 'do-it-yourself' solution. All the different access media are funneled through the Qwest infrastructure/backbone, removing the management concerns from the school.

Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
Here's a quick and cost effective way to deliver a wide variety of services, improve service to the student, and save money. IVR lets you streamline delivery of many key services. For example; you can operate outside of standard business hours, free staff members for more productive duties, and automate routine tasks like taking orders, making reservations and registering for classes.
Effective IVR based solutions now being explored by colleges and universities include: electronic surveys, tendering test results, completion of student aid forms, applications for admission, class registration, and general requests for information about campus activities. Students can provide and receive all pertinent information without ever leaving home.

Modem Aggregation Service (MAS)
MAS enables you to provide your users with modems located at your nearby Qwest central office. The service provides a dial-in number and a set number of modems your subscribers can use to gain dial-in access to your network and the Internet. Instead of owning or leasing dedicated modems, you can subscribe to a specified number of modems. Your modems are then dynamically allocated as your end users dial in. Modems are available in virtual blocks of 12.
You'll note a significant network benefit, because long duration remote access calls typical of Internet usage are offloaded from your voice network and are carried more efficiently on a separate frame relay or ATM cell relay network designed specifically for data traffic.

With today's videoconferencing technology, students at multiple sites can be linked by multimedia connections with teachers and students at another location. Complete solutions are available for labs, classrooms and lecture halls. Using two-way interactive video, microphones, and pen-based electronic tablets, the students participate in classes where the teacher-even though many miles away-can see and interact with them.

Here are some ways that videoconferencing technology is being used in education:

Connecting adult students with night classes:
A rural school district, which launched a successful pilot project linking distant classes and students, is offering night classes across their videoconferencing network for adult working students who want to earn credits toward their high school diplomas. Adult students who work during the day don't have to commute to a distant campus many miles away. Instead, they visit a nearby school where night classes are conducted via videoconferencing technology.

Connecting students from multiple locations and cultures
In Somerville, Texas, junior high school students regularly connect to a classroom in Wyoming to exchange multimedia presentations on the two states' geography, geology and history. Educators, who attribute higher test scores to the videoconferencing network, are encouraged by the success of the distant learning project.

Connecting teachers to administrative meetings
Teachers at seven remote schools in rural Utah are attending administrative meetings and teacher education classes using videoconferencing equipment. Not only does the videoconferencing network save time and transportation costs, but the district gets more work accomplished by utilizing the multimedia capabilities of its network. Everybody in the school district wins-teachers save time, administrators cut costs, and taxpayers save money.

Connecting secondary schools to colleges and universities
High School students are enrolled in advanced curriculums and college credit courses via videoconferencing without leaving their communities. Videoconferencing technology makes it possible for them to connect to a number of colleges and universities around the country, where they can interact with their peers and instructors at other schools.

Qwest is a premier provider of full-service communications for government agencies and educational institutions of all sizes, offering services across America that draw on more than a century of telecommunications heritage.  Qwest professionals work with integrity to design and engineer telecommunications solutions using advanced products and services that deliver superior value to our customers.  Our goal is to provide outstanding service to every customer.

At Qwest, we understand the importance of providing students with the tools they need to thrive in today's rapidly-changing world. Weknow that today's classroom is a global classroom-with links not only to other school buildings, but to vast databases of information from around the world.

Our Dedicated Internet Access via Qwest.net® is built on a network of world-class hardware and software products that work together to make Internet access robust and cost-efficient. We provide Netscape Navigator software for access to the World Wide Web, and we use technology from Cisco Systems to supply routing, protocol support, security and a variety of management features to safeguard mission-critical traffic.

Added features of Qwest Dedicated Internet Access are:

• Dual (multi-homed) connections to the Internet

• Platforms in secure data centers

• Redundant platform architecture with no single point of failure

• Monitoring on a 24 hours a day, 7 days a week basis to assure maximum reliability and performance

Frame Relay

Our Frame Relay/Internet access solution offers speeds up to 1.5 Mbps and is ideal for bursty Internet data traffic.

Point-to-point Dedicated T-1 1.544 Mbps Service

Our point-to-point dedicated T-1 1.544 Mbps access solution offers speed up to 1.544 Mbps and is best for constant bandwith needs.

Managed Firelwall Service (MFS)

This service provides customers with a secure firewall based on CheckPoint technology. With this service, Qwest operates, manages, and continuously monitors the firewall, providing customers with a secure way to protect network connections. (NOTE: Qwest Internet Access is required for MFS.)

Internet access includes three technologically advanced elements: DSL high-speed transport, Qwest DSLSM Host Internet Service Provider (ISP) services, and Internet access via Qwest.net.
Qwest DSL Services provides shared or dedicated digital subscriber line (xDSL) transport operating at 256 Kbps. DSL Services offers you high performance data transport, supporting fast, reliable Internet access for faculty, staff, and technology focused student. With DSL Services, your academic community gets simultaneous voice and high speed data services over a single copper wire pair.

Now you can put your bandwidth to work in new ways that provide productivity improvements, cost savings, and access to applications that may otherwise be too time consuming and resource intensive.
Through Qwest Hosting Solutions and our new Qwest Business Partners Program, we have combined our network expertise with industry-leading application providers and integrators to offer end-to-end solutions. Qwest can serve as your single source for multiple IT functions-including platform, middleware and Web hosting-as well as network-based access to business applications and the resources needed to support them.

The unique, end-to-end suite of Qwest network-hosted services includes:
* Platform hosting on a dedicated, managed Microsoft® NT and Sun/SolarisTM server infrastructure. Qwest can host shrink-wrapped or custom browser-compatible applications from virtually any category, in addition to intranet and extranet hosting. We provide the operational infrastructure, including transport, directory enabled services, billing mechanisms, power supply and daily backup, security firewalls, and 24 hours a day, seven days a week operational support.
* Middleware/Web hosting, including Lotus DominoTM hosting support, Notes applications, market-leading technology from RealNetworks to provide Web site streaming media services, and Web site and database hosting services over dedicated servers.
* Application hosting, with a recently expanded suite of services that offers your institution support for groupware, synchronous collaboration, distance learning, messaging and workflow applications, and support for a wide variety of vertical applications.

Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
Here's a quick and cost effective way to deliver a wide variety of services, improve service to the student, and save money. IVR lets you streamline delivery of many key services. For example; you can operate outside of standard business hours, free staff members for more productive duties, and automate routine tasks like taking orders, making reservations and registering for classes.
Effective IVR based solutions now being explored by colleges and universities include: electronic surveys, tendering test results, completion of student aid forms, applications for admission, class registration, and general requests for information about campus activities. Students can provide and receive all pertinent information without ever leaving home.

Modem Aggregation Service (MAS)
MAS enables you to provide your users with modems located at your nearby Qwest central office. The service provides a dial-in number and a set number of modems your subscribers can use to gain dial-in access to your network and the Internet. Instead of owning or leasing dedicated modems, you can subscribe to a specified number of modems. Your modems are then dynamically allocated as your end users dial in. Modems are available in virtual blocks of 12.
You'll note a significant network benefit, because long duration remote access calls typical of Internet usage are offloaded from your voice network and are carried more efficiently on a separate frame relay or ATM cell relay network designed specifically for data traffic.

With Qwest Wireless Solutions, your school can manages safety issues and provide a method for the school employee to always be instantly available no matter where they may be on the school grounds. Enhanced features such as One Number service, Voice Messaging Links, Home Link, and Data Mail allow for one number to be used by your school employee for all communication services.

• Data Mail not only includes Wireless Paging, but three other methods of sending messages:

  • Send messages on-line by using the Data Mail Web Site,

  • Email,

  • or by using Text Messaging Software with a PC and a modem***

• With Home Link, when your Wireless phone is turned off, or you don't answer, calls will forward to your home number or to any other number you choose***

• With Office Link, when your Wireless phone is turned off, or you don't answer, calls will forward to your office number or to any other number you choose***

• One Number Service means when your Wireless phone is turned on, calls made to your home or office phone will reach you on your Wireless phone-if you don't answer, or when your Wireless phone is turned off, calls ring on your home or office phone

• Wireless Paging lets others send you a numeric page to your Wireless phone by using a toll-free number

• Roadside Assistance Roadside Assistance a 24 hour a day, 7 day a week emergency roadside service program that goes with your Wireless phone