Higher education reference catalog

See how campusesreplaced theirPOTS lines.

Elevator phones, blue light call stations and fire alarm lines still depend on copper on most campuses. Our free 16-page catalog shows how universities moved them to POTS Link without disrupting campus life.

Real campus deployments
Compliance requirements explained
Cooperative contract options
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16 pages, free PDF
What is inside.

A practical look at campus POTS replacement, from the first inventory to cutover day.

01

Where copper still serves the campus

Elevator emergency phones, blue light call stations, fire alarm communicators, security systems and other analog equipment.

02

Four campus deployments

How the University of Pennsylvania, UT Austin, the University of Scranton and UT Chattanooga each approached their projects.

03

Life-safety compliance

What NFPA 72 and ASME A17.1 require of fire alarm and elevator lines, and how POTS Link meets them.

04

Monitoring with RCN Edge

How your team sees every line and device from one portal, backed by the 24/7 RCN NOC.

05

From inventory to cutover

The five-step process RCN uses to discover, engineer, coordinate, validate and manage a campus rollout.

Different campuses. One proven approach.

Every campus has its own buildings, schedule and safety requirements. The catalog walks through four of them.

Penn
Philadelphia, PA

University of Pennsylvania

The requirement was not simply dial tone.

UT Austin
Austin, TX

University of Texas at Austin

High density. Not high sprawl.

Scranton
Scranton, PA

University of Scranton

The deadline set the pace.

UTC
Chattanooga, TN

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Campus safety at the table.

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