USC Video Enables Classrooms and Conference Rooms with DTEN and Zoom By DTEN
Hands-on experience led the University of Southern California to choose DTEN as their enterprise-wide solution. Vetting new video collaboration hardware involves complex calculus: performance, reputation, durability, connectivity, user experience and cost are all key factors for consideration. Now imagine the process being accelerated from a year-long initiative to virtually overnight. USC was exactly in this scenario: their strategic digital transformation plan needed to be quickly advanced in response to COVID-19. In a recent interview, Joe Way, Director, Learning Environment at USC, explained how DTEN came to be selected in their thorough, yet fast-track, vetting process. 6
“Our classrooms and even a lot of our conference rooms did not yet have professional technologies in them for video conferencing, whiteboarding or any of those types of interactive collaboration tools,” notes Joe.
“We knew almost immediately that these DTEN units would be going everywhere, because it solved the problem.” Joe Way Director, Learning Environment at USC
