Virginia Community Colleges Thrive with Private WAN.
Helping educational institutions stay connected and competitive.
“Another service provider had a product they tried to fit VCCS into, instead of making a product to fit our needs. Segra was able to create a solution that was tailored to VCCS.”
— Ralph Lucia, Chief System Architect, VCCS
Virginia Community Colleges Thrive with Private WAN.
Challenge
The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) offers education and skill development across its 40 campuses and 80+ satellite locations. Spread statewide, including in rural areas, VCCS faces challenges in providing consistent, high-speed internet. Committed to ensuring all students, regardless of location, access vital educational technology, VCCS required a telecom provider that could economically and reliably connect all its sites.
Solution
Segra became crucial for VCCS, providing connectivity solutions tailored to their campuses and facilities. Their extensive fiber network and customer-focused approach enabled high-speed internet even in Virginia’s remotest areas, ensuring every VCCS site had reliable high-bandwidth capabilities.
Segra’s offerings included a private WAN for VCCS, connecting to the internet at select points for enhanced security. This setup ensured a secure, private network across educational facilities, ensuring critical internet access.
“Segra has been a crucial partner with the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) for several years. This is especially true in helping us to connect the most remote areas within the Commonwealth with access to our Wide Area Network (WAN), which ultimately connects colleges to the Internet. The colleges and satellite locations served by Segra are often the rural communities lacking high-speed internet access. With Segra’s help, VCCS provides these college campuses and satellite locations with the same reliable high bandwidth capabilities as are offered to our colleges in more urban areas.”
— Ralph Lucia, Chief System Architect, VCCS
VCCS faced challenges linking locations economically, particularly in less urban areas. Segra’s extensive coverage and tailored solutions made them VCCS’s preferred partner, reinforced by continuous customer support and a commitment to meeting unique needs.
Education Solutions
From cybersecurity to compliance and regulation to customer service, there are lots of priorities that educational institutions can’t afford to ignore. Knowing the challenges and pressures facing the industry, Segra has a winning roster of cybersecurity, connectivity, voice, colocation and cloud services.