With more than 35,000 students and 12,228 faculty members, the University of Maryland has a large population student both on and off campus. In the wake of recent tragic events, the University of Maryland wanted a reliable solution that could notify parents, the entire campus, or targeted areas both on and off campus in seconds.

With the Roam Secure Alert Network (RSAN) the University now has a system capable of reaching any text-enabled device including cell phones, pagers, e-mail, Blackberry as well as telephones and fax. The system is capable of sending 18.000 messages per minute, and provides two-way messaging capabilities to ensure that messages are received.

"The Roam Secure Alert Network gives the University of Maryland the ability to instantly communicate emergency information to our on and off campus constituents,” said Major Jay Gruber, University of Maryland Department of Public Safety. “We chose RSAN because of their experience managing large-scale text alerting systems over the past six years and for the easy enrollment process that was unique to the system. It is important to make enrollment easy on a college campus. We were also impressed with how quickly Roam Secure was able to make the system operational, taking only a few days to install the system, configure it to our needs, and train authorized personnel.”

Roam Secure supports more than 115 RSAN systems across the country at local, state and federal government agencies, schools, hospitals, airports, refineries and other key businesses for routine and emergency communication. The Roam Secure Information Exchange (RSIX) enables the University of Maryland to securely connect with other RSAN systems in five major metropolitan areas, including the seventeen jurisdictions in the National Capital Region, Philadelphia, San Francisco and local RSAN systems across the country in Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Colorado and California. Each new RSAN system, including existing systems throughout Maryland, can join the growing national emergency information exchange and share private and public all hazards emergency information regionally, statewide and nationally.For more information specific to Roam Secure text alerting solutions for colleges and universities, click here.

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