Amsterdam Regional Community College Uses Cisco Service- Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) to Deliver Connected Learning

Amsterdam Regional Community College Uses Cisco Service- Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) to Deliver Connected Learning

Cisco® today announced that it has been chosen by the largest community college in the Netherlands, the Amsterdam Regional Community College (Regionaal Opleidingencentrum van Amsterdam or ROCvA), to provide voice, mobility and security services for delivering teacher tools and innovative ‘connected learning’ applications to 3,500 staff and 35,000 students across 67 locations. Wireless technology is being used to provide an electronic learning environment in two locations, including a major new building on Fraijlemaborg Street.

ROCvA was established as a foundation under Dutch law at the initiative of local and national government in 1997, following the merger of a number of schools and colleges in Amsterdam and the nearby townships of Amstelveen, Hoofddorp and Hilversum. One of the largest colleges in Europe, the community college focuses on vocational education and training for 12-to-18-year-old and adult students. Following its creation, the college engaged Cisco in 1999 to create a standardized, centralized network infrastructure across all its locations and is now building on this with voice, wireless and security platforms.

“We aim to roll out Cisco wireless and voice services across all the locations that we will be using for the next three to five years,” said Hans Doffegnies, information technology director at ROCvA. “Our network infrastructure is already used widely by teachers to access workplace productivity tools and we are also hoping to increase the number of blended learning techniques currently on offer. We also want to gradually integrate connected real estate functions such as video surveillance, heating and cooling into the network.”

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