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Using network technology to create productive learning environments
Educators are enhancing student experiences by accessing career technical education, delivering personalized learning, and supporting online assessments.
To make these initiatives a reality, GCI's team of educators and technologists leans on more than 20 years of experience being the trusted IT partner of districts throughout Alaska.
Connect anytime, anywhere with education network solutions
Maintain visibility into your education network
We continually invest in making our education network solutions the most robust in Alaska. Since 1998, GCI’s team has worked with districts to identify network technology priorities and drive infrastructure investment to support this initiative. Our facilities provide districts with multiple options to connect your schools to each other and to outside education resources.
What questions should rural school districts ask network providers?
Network solutions for education
Maintain connectivity
Receive advanced network resiliency by combining multiple transport technologies into a single connection.
Enhance voice and video performance
Ensure your latency-sensitive, real-time applications perform optimally with application-aware routing.
Service your network
Be at ease with remote technicians stationed throughout Alaska, ready to deploy for rapid repairs.
Assure ongoing quality
Support high-functioning technology and continuous operations with our preventative maintenance service.
Eligible category 1 & 2 services
Receive services designed around both your district's communications objectives and E-Rate eligibility criteria.
Use our E-Rate expertise
Support your E-Rate compliance efforts with our team of experts dedicated to handling your E-Rate needs.
Close the homework gap with internet coverage
Extend learning to the home
An increasing amount of out-of-classroom learning opportunities depend on access to the internet to complete assignments and computer-based lessons. GCI's Mobile Internet for Education is closing the digital divide.
Network security solutions for education
Enable home access
Give students access to educational resources from home, with safe, accessible internet service.
Ensure safe connections
Protect your students who access the internet outside the school with an extension of your district's firewall and filtering rules.
Provide education content
Deliver education content without the distractions of entertainment services.
Expand managed IT support capabilities
Employ our resources
Maintaining sufficient support capabilities becomes more difficult as your technical environment balances the drive toward access and usability for learning, with the need to maintain network safety and security. With managed IT services, your team can focus on supporting your core mission of delivering high-quality education, while we put our wide range of technology skills to work for you.
Managed IT support solutions for education
Evaluate and escalate service requests
Let us manage your service desk tickets from initial call to resolution or escalation.
Experience ongoing tech support
Use our service center to deliver managed IT support to your employees 24/7/365.
Expand access to support
Troubleshoot with our specialized technicians and highly experienced engineers.
Unify monitoring and management
Receive proactive and preventative support services on your network systems, UC environment, and network security.
Strengthen your cybersecurity
Monitor physical and network security controls from a centralized security operations center (SOC).
Enable Collaborative Learning Opportunities
Your network is the portal to a world of possibilities.
With our education network ecosystem, which includes a growing number of technology and content partners, the potential for learning opportunities is only limited by what you can imagine.
GCI’s TERRA network provides connectivity to some of the most remote regions in Alaska.
Collaboration solutions for education
Build the ideal education network
Connect classrooms for real-time collaboration throughout the state, country, and the world.
Collaborate with education partners
Receive cost-effective, education-appropriate services through our partnerships with content and technology leaders.
Optimize performance
Guarantee voice and video performance with priority access across GCI's managed network.
Simplify video conferencing
Deliver easy-to-use videoconferencing for classrooms, desktops, and mobile devices, using GCI's experience and network of partners.
Secure your education network
Keep your staff and students safe
As schools become more connected, they are increasingly vulnerable to cybersecurity intrusions. Our enterprise-grade security solutions will protect your ever-expanding network. This education network solution is supported by GCI's certified security, compliance, and technology specialists.
Maintain CIPA compliance
Satisfy your Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) filtering requirements with our Security Essentials solution.
Strengthen network security
Equip your network with the latest Internet firewall protections, including advanced intrusion detection capabilities.
Customize security policies
Filter content based on applications, categories, protocols, and IP addresses.
Secure devices and applications
Ensure the safety of your hardware in Alaska’s largest, fully monitored and restricted-access data center.
Prevent security breaches
Improve network safety by immediately detecting abnormal behavior with integrated services and analytics.
Customize network permissions
Customize network capabilities and access based on role, device, and location policies.
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For more than 45 years, GCI has partnered with organizations small and large, to pursue their goals and overcome technological barriers to success. Let’s discuss ways we can help your organization meet its objectives.