Danish School System Builds Agile, Responsive Remote IT Support Model on Black Box Emerald KVM Platform

Black Box, an industry-leading provider of pro AV connectivity and signal distribution systems, today announced that Helsing r Kommune, a community of 17 middle schools in and around the Danish city of Helsing r, is using the Emerald high-performance KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) platform to enable remote IT support and troubleshooting for students and teachers. The Emerald-enabled support booth gives students and teachers immediate access to the IT service desk throughout every school day and significantly improves the efficiency of the support team in addressing service requests.

The first Helsing r Kommune deployment, at Skolen ved R nneb r All , relies on one Emerald transmitter and eight Emerald receiver devices to carry video and USB over IP between the middle school and remote IT department. Students initiate a support session through a SkyLink video call on an iPad within the booth. Once the student connects the problematic laptop or device into the Emerald-based solution via DVI, HDMI, or USB, an IT staff member can assume control, launch a webcam chat session, and begin troubleshooting.

"It s probably one of the world s first IT solution that combines a phone box with online support for school students, said Mads William Oehlenschl ger, tech support specialist at Helsing r Kommune. "The idea originated from Kim Baumgarten, IT manager at the Center for Citizens Services, IT and Digitalization (BID) at Pr vestenen. And it actually works on several levels. For one, the problem often is that students can t get their computers to connect to the internet. Using Emerald KVM extension for video and control, our team can quickly resolve that issue. We also wanted to establish personal contact with students, using the webcam so that they can see us, and we can see them. That s really why we built our new IT support box this way. Plus, students always love it when they see us hacking their screens."

The Emerald KVM platform from Black Box provides the high level of security essential to the education sector, as well as the point-to-multipoint extension functionality that makes it easy for the tech support team to control and fix laptops remotely. Rather than travel between schools on a preset schedule, support team members use the KVM platform to address issues wherever and whenever they arise. Integration of the award-winning Black Box Boxilla KVM management platform allows for straightforward network management via a user-friendly, web-based GUI.

"It s always exciting to see the power of our Emerald KVM platform demonstrated in an interesting new application, said Josh Whitney, senior vice president of Technology Product Solutions at Black Box. "The Helsing r Kommune deployment is a great example of the significant benefits that our high-performance KVM solutions can bring in supporting remote access to critical technical resources."

More information about the Black Box Emerald KVM platform is available at www.blackbox.com/Emerald. More information on Black Box and its products is available at www.blackbox.com.

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