voice and network solution for education - mobile
MADE FOR EDUCATION

Learning depends on access. Keep every line open.
 

Pure IP keeps voice and network running across every campus, service, and building you operate - from admissions to the residence hall to the cloud, without disrupting the services students and staff rely on.

 

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Trusted by global education providers

Behind the world's most connected campus environments  

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What education IT teams tell us

It grew campus by campus, and students feel every gap

Legacy running the campus, sprawl across sites, emergency calling at risk, and copper switching off.  
01 · STUDENT ACCESS

A failed number reaches every student

When voice goes down, students can't reach the people they need. At clearing or enrollment, that becomes a crisis fast.

student access
  • Admissions, enrollment, financial aid, advising, and IT helpdesk all on the same voice path.
  • Libraries, housing, wellbeing, and support teams that peak at set points in the academic year.
  • A failed number measured in student experience and missed enrollments, not just minutes.
  • Student-facing lines that cannot fail while the estate moves to the cloud.
02 · EMERGENCY CALLING

A campus call has to reach help

A 911 call from a residence hall or lab has to connect, notify staff, and locate the caller. The law now requires it.

a campus call has to reach help
  • Direct emergency dialing from every campus phone, with no prefix to remember.
  • On-site notification so campus safety knows when and where a call is placed.
  • Dispatchable location down to the building, floor, and room.
  • Legacy campus phone systems that were never configured for any of it.
03 · ESTATE COMPLEXITY

One institution, too many systems

Campuses you expanded. Groups you merged. Either way, the voice estate keeps multiplying.

one institution, too many systems
  • Each campus adds another PBX, another platform, another set of carrier contracts.
  • Number ranges, phone systems, and support paths inherited from every merged-in site.
  • What works for the main campus rarely reflecting the full estate underneath it.
  • PSTN switch-off arriving before the retailer has a plan for what still depends on it.
04 · LEGACY LINES

Copper still runs the campus

Blue-light phones, lift lines, and alarms on estates the carrier is switching off, on campuses that stay open.

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  • Blue-light phones, help points, and elevator emergency lines tied into a PBX marked for retirement.
  • Fax still in production for admissions records, transcripts, and compliance archives.
  • Alarms, door entry, and residence-hall phones on the same analog estate as the desks.
  • PSTN switch-off arriving before the institution has a plan for what still depends on it.

What's at stake

Four numbers behind every education voice and network conversation, across every market you operate.  

UK
91% of universities

Higher education institutions that identified a cyber breach or attack in the past year, well above businesses
UK Cyber Security Breaches Survey, 2025

US
82% Of K-12

US school districts that experienced a cyber incident between mid-2023 and end of 2024.
Center for Internet Security

Global
251 Attacks

Ransomware attacks claimed against educational institutions worldwide in 2025, many causing days of downtime.
Comparitech, 2026

UK
Jan 2027 Switch-off

PSTN retirement deadline for institutions still running voice and safety systems over analog and ISDN.
Openreach / BT

Built for the connected reality of global education

One estate, every outcome the campus relies on

ONE GLOBAL VOICE AND NETWORK ESTATE

Teams, Webex, and Zoom across up to 137 countries. One provider, one estate for every campus, department, and merged-in institution.

CAMPUS-READY EMERGENCY CALLING

Direct 911 dialing, staff notification, and dispatchable location on every handset. Built to meet the rules that apply across campus.

CAMPUS SYSTEM CONTINUITY

Blue-light phones, lift lines, fax, and alarms stay working. Each device moves when the campus is ready.

RESILIENT CONNECTIVITY

Network services built and run by us, with failover that holds through peak. New campuses and sites live in days.

Five outcomes shaping global education today.

Our own global voice network, with PSTN replacement in 50+ countries and flexible voice in up to 137.

Pure IP owns and runs its global voice network from 12 points of presence across North America, EMEA, and APAC. Campuses and merged-in institutions consolidated onto one estate as they join, with number porting and management handled centrally across countries.

  • 12 global points of presence across North America, EMEA, and APAC
  • PSTN replacement in 50+ countries, flexible voice in up to 137
  • Carrier consolidation across regions on one contract
  • HyperNetwork for DID resiliency on US inbound numbers

 Most providers cover one platform. We cover the three most used in education - Teams, Webex, and Zoom - so faculty, administration, and support teams don't split the estate underneath them.

 

Explore Unified Integrations ›

  • Microsoft Teams Phone via Operator Connect and Direct Routing
  • Cisco Webex Calling via Cloud Connect and Local Gateway
  • Zoom Phone via Provider Exchange
  • Contact center voice integrated into the same global network

Our managed SBC bridges your existing PBX, analog devices, and PSTN estate to your cloud voice platform. Campuses move when they're ready. SIP Connect brings analog devices into the cloud environment, with dispatchable location on every handset for campus emergency calls.
 

 

Connect analog devices with SIP Connect

  • Managed SBC bridging your existing PBX to Teams, Webex, or Zoom
  • SIP Connect for analog devices: library phones, fax, door entry, residence-hall phones
  • Dispatchable location and staff notification for campus emergency calls
  • Devices that can't move to SIP kept on parallel paths: blue-light phones, lift lines, alarms

Resilient connectivity at every site, with a failover path that doesn't share wires or carriers with the primary. New campuses and sites live in days. Voice, video, and cloud learning traffic prioritized so services hold at peak.
 

 

Explore our Global Network Services

  • Managed SD-WAN, built and operated by us
  • Managed Wireless using LTE/5G for failover, new sites, and satellite campuses
  • Dedicated Internet Access where the site warrants it
  • Global NOC, 24/7 follow-the-sun, with central visibility

Our Solution Lifecycle Enablement team handles Teams Phone deployment and ongoing support. Discovery, design, migration, and 24/7 support that doesn't disappear after go-live. 

 

Explore Solution Lifecycle Enablement

  • Microsoft Teams Phone deployment, end to end
  • Migration sequenced around the academic calendar, not the other way around
  • 24/7 Teams Phone support after go-live, on the same contract
  • One commercial relationship through discovery, build, and steady state

For the people running education IT

Different priorities, one team

Keeps the campus running

Head of Infrastructure and Telephony

The problem

Multiple carriers, aging PBX systems, campus exceptions, and undocumented numbers. A residence-hall outage on a move-in weekend is your problem, not the vendor's. So is the analog line on the lift phone that went down after the carrier swap.
 

How we help

We bring the estate onto one managed network, with one support team and one view of every line. Legacy campus systems stay live through the migration, not ripped out. Managed SBC removes the hardware layer no one has capacity to maintain, so the team stops being reactive.

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One partner for the voice and network that keeps education connected.
 

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