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Hi folks, What solutions are your Admissions offices using to securely receive sensitive documents from prospective students? Any recommendations? Jason Jason Alderfer Director of Technology Systems Information Systems Eastern Mennonite University

We are very pleased with Lumen (formerly Centurylink, formerly Level 3) Ready-Access Conferencing for the exact use case you describe. Very easy for participants, and the moderator has a simple app they can use to admit callers and control access for executive sessions, etc. It is very reasonably priced, ...

For those who are using VoIP gateways, what is your design standard for how long service will remain available in a power outage? Does your AHJ have requirements you have to meet? Jason Alderfer Director of Technology Systems Information Systems Eastern Mennonite University \

This is not the first time I've heard of such a thing involving off-net circuits where Verizon was the incumbent carrier. Here in north central VA, another organization had their PRIs rapidly terminated erroneously due to a similar error, which resulted in loss of service for them as well. Beware. Jason ...

I'll add that while we were making the transition to VoIP we had a vintage 1994 PBX connected to the outside world via SIP trunks run through media gateways that provided PRIs to the PBX. Surprisingly enough, this worked flawlessly for about 3 years until we shut down the PBX. Jason Alderfer Director ...

We never actually ran PA, we just evaluated them when we replaced our Cisco ASA. So we never lost any functionality. I can't say how we'd feel if we had run PA. I will say that some of the more advanced features of Fortinet such as WAF we have never been able to get working reliably. In the case of the ...

Our first choice would have been Palo Alto, but the recurring costs were just too high. We felt like Fortinet offered similar functionality at a better price point for the recurring costs. We've now had Fortinet for 4 years and are happy with them. Jason Jason Alderfer Director of Technology Systems ...

We built a custom web app to manage faculty loading and generate info for payroll. It works well for us at least and is quite popular among the folks who had to manage this prior to the app, but it was not easy to build. Jason Alderfer Director of Technology Systems Information Systems Eastern Mennonite ...

We are satisfied customers of RAVE. Happy to answer any questions. https://www.ravemobilesafety.com/ Jason Jason Alderfer Director of Technology Systems Information Systems Eastern Mennonite University