Belfast firm Niavac, has secured a £250k VC contract with the Western Education and Library Board (WELB) earlier this month following a detailed tender process and have also been selected to provide tech support to the project on an on-going basis over the next three years.
WELB is the largest of province’s five Education Boards, responsible for education, library and youth services across Fermanagh, Omagh, Strabane, Derry city and Limavady.
Their ICT Management Services are responsible for the management and delivery of all ICT services for administration for all these services – representing a network of 18 outcentres stretching from Gortatole to Magilligan Field Centre.
The new contract with NIAVAC will see the roll out of seven new Video Conference suites in centres and upgrading communication systems and infrastructure across all outcentres so that their existing VC hardware can communicate with each other.
Noel Burke, Niavac says: “WELB are very actively embracing new technologies to increase efficiencies and their decision to upgrade their existing videoconferencing network has allowed more users participate in the videoconferencing experience.
“The system we are installing will allow the user to integrate multipoint calls from a desktop without any additional hardware requirements and they can also participate in videoconference through a tablet or android device wherever they may be.
“The outcome for WELB is a huge saving on travel time and increased communication efficiencies between departments will be achieved. We look forward to working with such a progressive Education Board to support them in achieving their goals,” adds Noel.
