The Customer: St Albans High School for Girls
St Albans High School for Girls is a selective, independent day school for girls aged 4 – 18 years, which is affiliated to the Church of England. There are approximately 328 pupils in the preparatory school with 900 in the senior school and 186 sixth formers.
Their vision is to develop happy, resilient young people who will embrace opportunities and lead lives of consequence.
The Challenge
Babble had previously supplied St Albans High School for Girls with a Toshiba CIX670 equipped for ISDN30 and 85 extensions in July 2007. This serviced the school well for 14 years; however, they wanted to upgrade to a VoIP-based solution. This would need to be integrated with mobile smartphones and require Babble to manage the system in-house with their dedicated IT team. There was also a strong requirement to offer paging throughout the entire school, this was to be used in the case of the school going into a lockdown situation for example.