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Q: How does joining the UEN save my school
money?
A: By joining the UEN and its unique strategy for technology
deployment in schools, your school will save money by adopting
the centralization and standardization scheme the UEN uses. The
UEN concept uses turn-key technology solutions that allow for
the off-site management of your schools technology. By
implementing a 3 to 5 year transition strategy to get to the
fully deployed UEN infrastructure, your school is guaranteed to
go from your current variable technology deployment and
management costs to a fixed annual cost from Cheqtel. This
annual fixed cost from Cheqtel is between $10,000 to $15,000
depending on the
UEN Support
Agreement you choose and assuming you
have deployed the standard minimal CheqWAY hardware.
Q: What is the “Centralization and Standardization Scheme”
that Cheqtel uses?
A: Cheqtel has proven that by centralizing your technology
infrastructure your infrastructure becomes significantly more
stable, and much more manageable. With this centralization
scheme, your entire infrastructure can be managed remotely with
very little on-site assistance required to maintain your
systems. Additionally, by standardizing your systems,
and deploying the new virtual infrastructure technologies from
Cheqtel, maintenance is as simple as placing a spare unit in place of a
defective unit.
Q: How does “Centralization and Standardization” improve
maintenance and management?
A: Cheqtel deploys the latest in Virtualization techniques that
makes a centralized system possible. Our virtualization
techniques are implemented on the servers as well as the
workstations. Should there be any sort of hardware failure, we
simply replace the hardware and boot a common image to restore
your system. This is a plug-and-play method of hardware
maintenance. Additionally, should there be a need for software
maintenance all of this is done remotely by the Cheqtel
technicians. And since we are using common images we need
to install the software changes only once and immediately all
systems throughout the network are updated.
Q: Does this standardization detract from my student’s
experiences while using computers in the classroom?
A: No, not at all. The standardized systems deployed are
full-functioning Dell™ Smart-Client computers capable of all
uses of any other computer. These systems are capable of
performing full multimedia functions and interact with all types
of devices such as digital cameras, scanners and external
storage devices. Additionally Cheqtel deploys Thin-Client type
devices in applications where full multimedia requirements are
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