May 28, 2008—Cooper Notification, a platform of Cooper Industries, Ltd., has announced that 17 additional Virginia Community College System colleges have launched the patent-pending Roam Secure Alert Network (RSAN) for emergency notification, joining Northern Virginia Community College, which launched its system in August 2007.
Through RSAN, campus safety officials on each college campus can now send targeted alerts via email, text and voice messaging, and other delivery channels to students, faculty and staff, notes the company.
Each campus launched RSAN independently. Parents, alumni and friends of the university can also sign up for RSAN at no charge by visiting each corresponding Web site. The remaining five VCCS colleges have pre-existing contracts with other providers, but will have the opportunity to install the RSAN solution when those contracts expire.
The Web-based RSAN system supports over 18,000 messages per minute and automatically delivers real-time information and alerts to email, pagers, cell phones, BlackBerry, desktops, voice calls, indoor and outdoor speakers and more. Alerts can be generated from a single web interface, or using a mobile device. The systems are hosted in highly secure, fully redundant data centers for optimal performance and easy maintenance and support.
Cooper Notification currently provides critical, campus-wide emergency communications for universities across the US. For more information, see the company Web site.
