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Discover managed solutions to unleash your campus’s full potential
Managed solutions for higher education are purpose-built to help colleges and universities keep learning securely connected, alleviate the burdens of day-to-day technology management — and unleash your campus’s full potential. Discover how the combined power of connectivity, managed services, unified communications and TV can help elevate your campus experience and build a foundation for the future.
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Managed solutions for campuses
Help protect your network and physical spaces
Stay ahead of cyber threats with advanced, FERPA-compatible security solutions, including unified threat management, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) mitigation, and identity and access management.
Open the door to IT innovation
Let Spectrum Business, a Charter Communications brand, support your IT teams, freeing them to focus on other campus initiatives. Choose fully managed or co-managed options based on your needs, and manage it all on the Cisco Meraki platform.
Give students next-level learning experiences
Elevate student experiences and meet the demand for always-on technology. Take advantage of fully managed WiFi backed by industry-leading servic-elevel agreements (SLAs), scalability up to 100 Gbps, and 24/7/365 U.S.-based monitoring and support.
Why managed services
MANAGE COSTS
87% of technology leaders said they face challenges finding skilled talent.1
ENHANCE SECURITY COSTS
65% of respondents reported that their team is currently missing specific critical skills for meeting cybersecurity goals.2
The Spectrum Business for enterprise advantage
RELIABILITY
Industry-leading SLAs that include a 100% uptime guarantee.3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
24/7/365 U.S.-based IT support
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FACT SHEET
Elevate your campus experience with managed solutions
Find out how managed solutions can help you provide uninterrupted campuswide connectivity, promote campus safety, strengthen network security and simplify team collaboration.
Let’s create a customized solution for your campus
It begins with the all-in-one network platform that gives you visibility into your campus network through a single-pane-of- glass view. Support your IT team with a turnkey managed network solution, delivered over the Cisco Meraki platform, that includes equipment, connectivity, licensing, network management and a web-based management portal.
Customize your solutions to match the needs of your campus
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Dedicated Fiber Internet |
Rely on low-latency and consistently fast speeds up to 100 Gbps delivered over our private fiber network and backed by a 100% uptime SLA guarantee.3 Plus, leverage our nationwide reach and dense metro coverage to scale as your campus requirements grow. |
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Smart cameras and |
Help safeguard faculty, staff and students. Create smart spaces to monitor campus activity and protect physical assets. Set alerts to monitor doorways, HVAC conditions and more. |
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Zero trust network access |
Create more modern, robust defenses by extending the network edge to each user and application via Cloud Security with Cisco+ Secure Connect. |
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Access and identity |
Help protect your campus’s sensitive systems from unauthorized access by implementing security protocols at both the user and device levels with Secure Access with Cisco Duo. |
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DDoS Protection |
Help shield applications and systems with a cloud-based service that automatically identifies and mitigates DDoS attacks. |
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SpectrumU TV |
Enable students to stream TV wherever and however they want on tablets, smartphones, laptops and devices such as Apple TV, Chromecast and Roku. Watch live TV plus an extensive library of shows and movies on demand. |
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Unified Communications |
Streamline faculty and staff collaboration with our all-in-one, cloud-based platform for voice, messaging, file sharing and video conferencing. |
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SIP Trunking |
Cost-effectively connect your legacy private branch exchange (PBX) and key systems to the public switched telephone network (PSTN). Includes telephone numbers, unlimited local calling, inbound toll-free calling and an outbound long-distance package — backed by our 100% uptime SLA guarantee.4 |
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Is your campus ready for the future?
Managed network solutions can transform your campus into the smart campus your faculty, staff and students expect with secure, always-on connectivity no matter where they are on campus. With our wide range of managed services, networking technologies and 100%, 24/7/365 U.S.-based support, Spectrum Enterprise® can provide the tailored education technology and managed solutions you need.
E-Book
Managed solutions for higher education
Elevate your campus experience, better support your IT team and budget for the future. Facing uncertain budgets and enrollment trends, colleges need to optimize their spending. Managed solutions offer a flexible approach to maximizing budgets while modernizing IT for the future of learning. This e-book explores use cases across campus where managed solutions can deliver powerful upgrades to legacy systems and increase efficiency by bringing multiple technologies into a single platform and service provider relationship.
Case Study
St. John’s University transforms campus experience with robust connectivity upgrade
See how St. John’s University is leveraging new network service and connectivity upgrades to enhance the campus experience with video streaming, WiFi and more.
Guide
Solving IT staffing challenges with managed services - HED
Historically, colleges and universities have taken a "do-it-yourself" approach to deploying and managing their network infrastructure. However, campus leaders are starting to rethink this method.