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Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise achieves FERPA compliance ensuring data protection in the education sector in the United States.

Calabasas, California, USA – November 21 - 2022 – Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, a leading provider of communications, networking, and cloud solutions tailored to customers’ industries, today announces that it has achieved compliance under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) for the US market.

FERPA is a Federal law that requires schools and their service providers to protect the privacy of students’ education records. This entails the establishment and maintenance of administrative, physical, and technical safeguards that are designed to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of all education records to which a school or service provider has access.

FERPA compliance will enable Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise to provide its Rainbow^TM communications solutions, including Rainbow Classroom, to its education customers.

“ALE has been proactive in taking on the critical role of protecting students’ education records and providing educational agencies or institutions with the technology they need to ensure student success. We take great pride in offering peace of mind to education professionals, parents, and students alike,” said Salvatore Zoida, Senior Attorney and FERPA Compliance Officer at ALE USA Inc.

Achieving this milestone allows us to extend the benefits of our Rainbow communications platform, through its licensing model, to educational institutions at all levels, which is a priority vertical for ALE. We are committed to our education customers and will continue to propose the solutions they need while ensuring all the necessary protection for them to offer services in optimal conditions,

Mike Mullarkey, Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Americas at ALE USA Inc.

ALE is a key supplier of unified communications solutions tailored to organisations of all sizes across various industries. The company also provides cloud-based solutions enhancing its customers’ ability to address client needs as they increasingly move to the cloud. Rainbow Classroom by Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise delivers a standardized virtual learning experience that leverages existing Learning Management Systems or ALE’s standalone online learning platform and enriches it with real-time collaboration and communication capabilities. The solution provides everything educators need in an online virtual classroom, tailored to their requirements, using a web browser and internet connection.

A propos d'Alcatel-Lucent

ALE International, opérant sous la marque Alcatel-Lucent, est une entreprise multinationale dans les hautes technologies, qui fournit des solutions de communication et de réseau permettant aux organisations et aux entreprises de tout secteur, d’accroître leur efficacité opérationnelle et leur compétitivité. Dans le cloud. Sur site. En mode hybride.

Les solutions Alcatel-Lucent intègrent nativement la sécurité tout en minimisant leur impact environnemental. Elles sont conformes aux exigences les plus strictes en matière de protection des données des entreprises et des personnes, qu’il s’agisse de souveraineté nationale ou de standards internationaux du secteur.

L'engagement d'Alcatel-Lucent s'articule autour des trois piliers stratégiques de l’ESG : Environnement durable, responsabilité Sociétale et Gouvernance d'entreprise, avec pour mission de proposer des solutions technologiques au service de ces valeurs.

Plus de 100 ans d'innovation ont fait de la société un partenaire de confiance auprès de plus d'un million de clients à travers le monde. ALE International, dont le siège social est en France, compte 3 000 partenaires dans le monde, offrant ainsi une meilleure proximité.

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Keeping student education records safe

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise achieves FERPA compliance ensuring data protection in the education sector in the United States.

A propos d'Alcatel-Lucent