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District staff propose switch to Cisco Webex phone system, citing cost savings and Alyssa's Law readiness
Summary
Technology director Adam Dennison recommended replacing the district’s aging on-premise phone system with a Cisco Webex cloud solution to reduce hardware failures, support Alyssa’s Law emergency buttons, and save roughly $27,000 annually; board questions focused on redundancy and web-based reliability.
Adam Dennison presented a proposal to replace Romulus Community Schools’ aging on-premise phone system with a cloud-based Cisco Webex platform, saying the current system — installed in July 2016 — is increasingly obsolete and recently suffered a hardware failure.
Dennison summarized projected costs and benefits: the original 2016 installation cost was $115,659; last fiscal year the district paid roughly $36,436 to AT&T for phone service…
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