Higher Education

Higher Education

Give your higher education institution the adaptable, reliable, and secure communications it needs with a personalized PAETEC solution featuring our complete suite of data, voice, and system-management products and services.

Ensuring Network Availability and Business Continuity

In times of emergency, it's critical that key components of your networks remain up and running, and that you're able to communicate with students, parents, faculty, and staff. We'll assist your business continuity planning and personalize a solution that will ensure your school always stays connected.

PAETEC's Business Continuity Solutions give you access to the products, services, and expertise you need for effective business continuity planning. We'll help you be ready for anything, offering:

  • Network designs that include carrier, equipment, protocol, and "last mile" diversity
  • PAETEC's state-of-the-art, fault-tolerant network, delivering a reliability rate of 99.999%
  • Alternative communications transport channels such as Fixed Wireless
  • Reliable, off-site Data Backup and Recovery services
  • Network Diversity Engineering (in select markets)

Our Hosted Broadcast Notification allows you to contact students and other groups in times of emergency, giving you the ability to:

  • Launch thousands of notifications simultaneously from any Internet connection, or by using a toll-free number
  • Send alerts via phone voice message, email, and SMS text message
  • Create custom messages "on the fly" or use pre-defined, pre-recorded messages
  • Track real-time notification reports that update every 60 seconds

For further assistance with Business Continuity or virtually any facet of your communications, PAETEC Managed Services give you the opportunity to implement and utilize the latest applications and solutions, while we handle their management, maintenance, and service.