WiredRed, the leader in enterprise-scale real-time communication software, today announced that Birmingham University has now adopted e/pop software, enabling tutors and pupils to interact - sharing applications and data regardless of their location.

With over 9,000 new students every year, the University of Birmingham is a leading research university and continues to make ground-breaking progress in industry areas such as gene structure, medicine, space research and communications.

The eLearning department at Birmingham University was looking for an easy to use and install, web-conferencing solution that would enable the lecturers and students to share applications and data using their existing PCs. It discovered WiredRed's e/pop web-conferencing software and decided to utilise a nine-month pilot scheme to decide whether the software was accessible enough and could meet the University's needs.

WiredRed's e/pop software enabled the new users to conduct online meetings and lectures via means of web-conferencing. From their individual PCs, users of e/pop found that they could utilise built-in VoIP to communicate and simultaneously share video, applications, documents and web-browsers in real time. After trialling e/pop software, Birmingham University was so impressed with its capabilities that the eLearning department decided to make the service fully available by adopting a full 100 user license.

"We found that e/pop could enable us to introduce a wide range of facilities into the online learning environment including web-conferencing, application sharing and chat - all vital in supporting the contemporary ways in which teachers teach and learners learn," explained Head of eLearning at Birmingham University, Stephen Clarke.

e/pop has saved the University substantial costs in installation, training and call costs that it would have spent with other systems available on the market. "By installing e/pop real-time communication software, Birmingham University has avoided the need to deploy more expensive and less flexible hardware solutions," explains Clarke.

"Birmingham University is a great example of an institution that is attempting to advance itself by utilising new technology in the education space," says WiredRed UK MD Tom Sloan. "Solutions such as web-conferencing are not only beneficial in delivering efficient and cost effective communication regardless of the user's location, but also as a way of augmenting the pupils' skills by using the most innovative technology on the market as an everyday tool."

About WiredRed
Founded in 1998, WiredRed is a technology leader in real-time communications. The company's e/pop product line is designed to provide busy, security-conscious IT staff with a fast and easy solution to secure instant messaging, company-wide alerting and web conferencing challenges. It licenses e/pop to more than 3,500 corporate and government IT organisations and a growing network of business partners.
WiredRed has offices in San Diego, California; Chichester, England and Sophia-Antipolis, France. For more information visit http://www.wiredred.com