The edgeBOX offers Schools and other educational institutions the ability to connect to the global Internet, provides email and other collaborative tools as well as offer web-based capabilities to develop communities based on shared interests. In fact, the edgeBOX is widely enabling an effective communication avenue between students, between students and staff and also between staff and parents. Of course, core networking services such as telephony and secure networking can also be delivered using the same edgeBOX.

The edgeBOX also provides the ability to filter access to inappropriate material on the web, while also blocking annoying spam (junk email).

The edgeBOX has been successfully deployed in Schools since its early market introduction in 2006. In fact, recently over 1200 schools in Portugal are installing the edgeBOX, with several thousand more slated to do so in the near future. It is being used as the access gateway to the Internet, for hosting a school Intranet, and also providing a public website.

Schools, like their commercial SMB counterparts, have limited IT budget and staff. The edgeBOX squarely addresses this issue by reducing the initial investment, and also by almost eliminating the on-going costs due to the inherent simplicity in managing it.

Key Benefits/Details for Educational Institutions:

Secure Access to the Internet

Access to all network services is controlled by passwords providing a greater level of security and accountability. By effectively controlling junk mail and filtering web sites and web pages, all information delivered to the school is guaranteed to be appropriate for minors to view.

Applications/Capabilities to enhance value

The edgeBOX is used to host web-based applications (e.g. secure Intranets) as well as having an email server to enhance communication between students, teachers and parents. Furthermore, it offers value-added applications such as edgeEXCHANGE and edgeLMS to provide a web-based collaborative environment to exchange information such as schedules and time-tables, course-work, assignments and so on.

The edgeBOX also provides the ability to filter access to inappropriate material on the web, while also blocking annoying spam (junk email).

Schools, like their commercial SMB counterparts, have limited IT budget and staff. The edgeBOX squarely addresses this issue by reducing the initial investment, and also by almost eliminating the on-going costs due to the inherent simplicity in managing it.

Key Benefits/Details for Educational Institutions:

Secure Access to the Internet

Access to all network services is controlled by passwords providing a greater level of security and accountability. By effectively controlling junk mail and filtering web sites and web pages, all information delivered to the school is guaranteed to be appropriate for minors to view.

Applications/Capabilities to enhance value

An all-in-one solution to fit the school's needs

Sophisticated Telephony & Networking services

The edgeBOX of course also delivers a platform for telephony, security, storage and other features it makes available.

Simplifying Administration/Management & Lowered Costs

The edgeBOX’s user-friendly GUI walks through administration tasks (e.g. adding user accounts, permissions etc) in a straight-forward manner. The edgeBOX is in fact designed to minimize the need for qualified – and expensive IT staff.