Suresh estimates the PLC environment hosts around 600 different applications, which have enabled a larger degree of tailoring for particular teacher, student and subject needs.
“Every student is different, and different at every stage. We make solutions that even the creators [original software vendors] don’t know about.”
For Cisco, the PLC deployment illustrates perfectly the company’s approach for its burgeoning education business, according to Ken Boal, director of Cisco Australia/New Zealand’s Public Sector Business.
“Cisco’s partnership with schools such as Pymble Ladies’ College is based on the simple premise of building a platform that enables highly engaging, online, video-based curricula to involve, challenge, and inspire students,” Boal says.
“This platform also provides teachers and staff with the information they need about students, scheduling, and administrative matters, around the clock, from anywhere.”
Cisco hopes its platform will see it make further inroads into the education market. Already the company is a foundation partner with Ideas Lab, the IT component of the Victorian Government’s $2 billion program to upgrade the state’s education system. Intel and Microsoft are among the other key vendors involved.
The networking juggernaut is also working with the Victorian Department of Early Education and Child Development to build a wired and wireless network capable of supporting one-to-one computing, mobility, high definition video and the sharing of digital content.
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