ACS Education Solutions

Focus on Students
ACS offers best-in-class services to ensure reliable access to digital teaching tools to let educators focus on their primary objective of growing student performance.

Create Safer Learning Environments
Creative technology solutions can help protect students inside and outside the classroom. From reducing online threats and encouraging digital citizenship to improving communications with students, parents and teachers in times of needs.

Encourage 24/7 Learning
ACS can help provide innovative connectivity and technology solutions that extend learning beyond the classroom, encourage peer-to-peer collaboration through social learning tools and enable individual learning plans and specialized instruction.

Engage 21st Century Learners
Capture student interest in learning with educational tools for specialized web content, classroom-to-classroom collaborations, content creation and High Definition video conferencing.

Advance Life-Long Learning Through Community Involvement
Alaska’s economy and communities benefit from successful outcomes in our educational system. ACS supports schools through community / industry partnerships designed to create resilient life-long learners.

Overcome Educational Barriers
ACS can help overcome the obstacles that challenge Alaska’s educators. Create world class outcomes for all with flexible, tailored solutions that reduce the total cost of ownership and bridge the digital divide.

Better Service
Local is Better
Better Value
Better Technology

Better Service for Better Outcomes

ACS knows that the first and most important element to achieving better outcomes and building longterm relationships is to listen. We know that one solution does not meet the needs of every school. Each classroom, school and district has unique challenges and ACS has customizable solutions to meet the unique and diverse needs of our state. ACS is committed to building longterm business partnerships with educators. Our commitment is to provide excellent service and support. Your Account Team is there every step of the way - to help with strategic planning, solutions that are designed just for you, on-going satisfaction assurance for installation, services changes, billing and followup including E-rate process support. Count on your ACS team to provide the support you need to enable you to focus where needed - on your students.

Local is Better

ACS has been serving Alaskans even before Alaska became the 49th state. Our network reaches 70% of Alaskans making ACS the largest full service provider for local, long distance, wireless, Internet and advanced data network solutions in Alaska. ACS employees live, work and raise their families in Alaska. We are personally invested in Alaska’s success which we know relies on the success of our state’s most precious resource, our children. Our employees are personally involved in education community partnerships because we know that learning doesn’t only happen in the classroom but includes the community.

Better Value for Alaska’s Schools

ACS has developed tomorrow’s technology to ensure educators have the opportunity to help students achieve superior outcomes today. Our intent to build trust and provide cutting-edge technology will ensure educators realize the value and long-term viability of our solutions. Today’s educational technology purchases must be flexible and scalable to meet tomorrow’s need as well as provide lower total cost of ownership. Additionally, new technologies have the capability to extend learning opportunities on a 24/7 basis to empower 21st century learning. We also have the knowledge and experience to help educators navigate the complex funding process to ensure our customers receive the maximum benefit for all of their technology purchases.

Better Technology and Better Solutions

ACS integrates network solutions for unprecedented access to global educational tools. We are the state’s foremost experts on MPLS and “cloud computing.” ACS leverages its extensive resources to develop custom solutions that provide reliability, speed and network security as well as safer learning environments. With our technology you can leverage one broadband connection to meet all of your needs. There’s no longer a need to purchase separate connections for voice, data, Internet and video conferencing. ACS provides access to better technology to enable our educators to transfer knowledge and inspire a thirst for lifelong learning.

ACS is confident in our technology solutions, unparalleled customer service and knowledge of the educational outcomes Alaska’s educators seek. Like the educators that we proudly support, ACS knows that education never ends and technology’s impact on education will continue to grow. We look forward to gaining a greater understanding of how we can provide the best solution for you and your students. To get started, contact a member of our Education sales team.

	Wireless Increase communications and your district’s productivity with Smartphones, educational software & apps, and Mobile Broadband.		Custom Data Network Solutions Get increased, flexible and guaranteed bandwidth and lower your costs with industry standards-based MPLS and Metro Ethernet.
	Enhanced Internet & Voice Converge your voice and internet service in one powerful communications solution connecting your schools and classrooms to the world.		Satellite Coverage Regardless of where your schools and facilities are located, ACS is there and offers reduced latency through satellite acceleration technologies.
	HD Video Conferencing Capture student engagement through classroom to classroom collaboration and virtual field trips and facilitate teacher training through state-of-the-art, high-definition video conferencing.		Network Management Services 24/7/365 monitoring of your network’s performance and capacity utilization to ensure guaranteed Quality-of-Service levels.
	Data Centers Ensure continuity and the security of your data through remote hosting and back-up with 24/7/365 access to our out-of-state data center.		r2 Built-In Network Redundancy Ensure teaching tools have the reliability you can count on in the classroom through our intelligent, fully redundant network design.

For additional information please contact us.

Alaska Communications Systems
600 Telephone Ave., Anchorage, AK 99503
acseducation@acsalaska.com
907.564.3333 toll-free: 877-564-3393


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