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Bangalore
18th May, 2007
Bapatla Engineering College in Bapatla, Guntur District, AP will deploy for
the first time in India Cisco Digital Media System to extend the classroom
environment and create anywhere, anytime learning experiences. Cisco Digital
Media System will virtualize the classroom environment with remote broadcast and
viewing of lectures and on-demand materials. The college will stream live,
sessions conducted by visiting professors and subject matter experts to the
classrooms. Lectures can be viewed online in 15 class rooms and 40 e-class rooms
simultaneously. The solution will also help the institute to simultaneously
record and archive the sessions. This will help the students to refer the
sessions at their convenience from their hostel rooms as well. The archived
sessions is presented to the students over Cisco Video Portal, a Web-based
application that allows students to quickly browse, search, and view digital
media interactively.
"Being a premier institute, we have lectures by several senior
professors and subject experts regularly. Providing access to all and archiving
these lectures was proving to be a challenge and so we were looking for an
E-learning solution that would provide benefits beyond the classroom
environment," says Seshagiri Rao, President, Bapatla Engineering College.
"The Cisco Digital Media System provides anywhere, anytime learning
experiences not traditionally available to all students and thus delivers its
benefits beyond the classroom environment."
Says Jagdish Mahapatra, Regional Manager (West)-Commercial, Cisco India &
SAARC. "Cisco Digital Media System is a solution that integrates rich
digital media creation, management and access, for communications anywhere,
anytime."
Cisco is partnering with its Premier Partner Shell Networks to deploy Cisco
Digital Media System at Bapatla Engineering College. The DMS solution to be
deployed includes Cisco Media Encoder 2000, Cisco Digital Media Mgr Base V4.0,
Cisco Video Portal V4.0, Cisco Wide Area Application Engine 512, Cisco IP
Conference Station and Cisco License Call Manager 5.1. The system is expected to
be deployed and go online by July 2007 Page(s) 1
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