Education

Connecticut State University System

The Connecticut State University System (CSUS) consists of four comprehensive universities and a system office. The four locations serve about 15,000 end users from a telephony perspective; the total number of students is more than 36,000. CSUS sought to evaluate its network infrastructure against industry best practices and elicit recommendations for improvements. In a joint venture with Network Strategy Partners, LLC, PowerHouse assessed the universities’ technology infrastructure and voice, video, and data networking capabilities that served both faculty/student learning initiatives and administrative services. The project served as a prototype for a systematic design process - ensuring that network infrastructure, services, objectives, and plans aligned with the needs of all four universities. The project yielded a concrete and long-term architecture that reflected the CSUS’s future plans and unique priorities for network improvements.

Daniel Webster College

Daniel Webster Collage is a four-year, private, commuter/residential college with a primary focus on experiential learning and a student enrollment of about 1,200. PowerHouse has maintained a long-term relationship with the college’s administration. Our consultants have assisted the college in a variety of assessment initiatives, including analyzing the telecommunications infrastructure among campus buildings, selecting a new phone system, and building a Help Desk capability.

Quinnipiac University

Quinnipiac University is a private, co-educational university with 5,400 undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students. The university planned an ambitious building program that included the construction of two new campuses and an investment in state-of-the art Information Technology. Quinnipiac sought to yield a communications architecture that would guide and shape IT capabilities through the next decade of construction and expansion. Toward that end, PowerHouse (in a joint venture with Network Strategy Partners, LLC) collaborated with the university within three broad phases, each with its own set of detailed activities and deliverables. The Telecommunications Systems Capacity Analysis inventoried all telecom platforms, analyzed traffic reports, and assessed current system capacity. The Review of Current Cabling Infrastructure included an examination of all available drawings, cabling inventory documents, and phone company documentation. The Strategic Plan for Telecommunications and Cabling resulted in a combined view of requirements and existing infrastructures that would lead Quinnipiac University into the future.