CHICOPEE – No matter how advanced technology becomes, when it comes to doing business, it’s all about communication. So, as the world changes from analog to digital, Valley Communications Systems, Inc. of Chicopee is here to make sure you are ready for the needs of both today and tomorrow. Valley has been a family owned and operated fixture in New England for almost 70 years. What began as a company specializing in motion picture distribution has grown into a one-stop shop for technology, serving the entire New England region. Even as their technical expertise has grown, Valley has remained a local company committed to providing its customers with systems that make sense. By focusing on the customers’ needs, keeping up on the latest technological innovations, and forging long-term relation-ships with clients, Valley has become the go-to company for technology solutions; serving the Education, Business, Government, and Medical markets. Valley leads the way in total communications systems integration, providing equipment, supplies and expertise to K-12, colleges, universities and corporations that enhance the learning experience for administrators, managers, teachers, students and parents.
Interactvie Technologies
For over a decade Valley has offered SMART Technologies interactive solutions to help educators reach their goals of improving student engagement, increasing academic achievement and making schools across New Eng-land competitive. Today, Valley is the region’s leader in providing interactive classroom solutions, with more than 25,000 SMART Classrooms installed in schools throughout New England. A national PBS survey released in early February of this year finds Pre-Kindergarten thru 12th grade teachers embracing digital resources to propel student learning. Seventy-five per-cent said technology enables them to reinforce and expand content in the classroom. As more educators are adopting technology for a 21st century curriculum, the accessibility of educational content on a variety of platforms is key to bringing lessons to life in classrooms. Similarly, SMART Technologies offers successful visual collaboration solutions to transform the way you do business. Utilize multiple intuitive interactive displays, powerful collaboration software, dispersed collaboration options, comprehensive services, and industry compatibility. Adopting such solutions as a part of your workflow increases innovation, boosts productivity, significantly reduces costs, and allows you to make more informed and efficient decisions.
VoIP Telephone Systems
Stay at the cutting edge of telephone technology by employing the latest and most reliable telephony solutions available. With over 9000 systems installed, Valley has unparalleled industry experience and a proven track record in helping organizations realize the tremendous advantages that communications technology provides. Valley offers Digital, Hybrid, VoIP/SIP and Hosted telephone systems from leading providers within the industry. Fully-featured Hosted VoIP systems “in the cloud” can provide far greater reliability and flexibility than a premises-based system. With iPBX Hosted Communication Service from Valley, you receive all the ad-vantages of IP telephony without the cost of purchasing, installing, and maintaining an expensive phone system. On-staff certified cabling technicians can provide all the necessary network connections including fiber, wireless, voice and data cabling, to ensure your office is properly connected. Valley is an awarded State Contract Vendor for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and for the State of Connecticut.
Digital Video and Display Systems
For education and business, enlarging the image is so important. From ultra-light portable projectors to multimedia video walls, Valley has the right solution for you. Valley’s staff designs the most cost effective way to accomplish your education or corporate goals. Display systems can range from a ceiling installed projector to a short-throw projector, to flat-panel and LCD displays. Whether LCD, DLP, LCoS projection or plasma, LCD or LED dis-plays, Valley offers the right mix to meet your display needs. Be it High Definition, Digital Signage, PowerPoint or Excel, Valley can match the correct technology with your space and budget.
Security Systems
The need for a comprehensive physical security strategy has never been greater, and Valley works with industry leading security vendors to provide customers with innovative, scalable, and fully integrated video monitoring and access control security solutions. From needs assessment to design, installation, and on-going service, Valley offers the latest in integrated physical security. Valley can help design, implement and in-stall a full security package from monitoring and recording to access control, net-work integration and remote access. Valley provides tracking, analytics, support and service for multiple camera and media formats to ensure safe, accurate, and up-to-date video security records.
Video Conferencing
Valley installs video conferencing equipment over various transmission lines for single or multiple location feed sources. By helping to integrate visual communications into customer’s daily processes and workflows, Valley is helping successful enterprises remove the barriers of distance and time, improving decision making, and achieving higher performance while reducing costs. Leveraging open architectures and industry-standard design principles, video conferencing allows enterprises to apply visual communications throughout their organization, regardless of the mix of vendors providing other communication and network services. Valley’s experience providing standards-based offerings and services high-lights their unique capability to span heterogeneous, multi-vendor environments with innovative and powerful visual communication.
Network Services
In an effort to provide a value-added service to our clients, Valley has negotiated relationships with multiple telephone and Internet service companies, generating a single point of contact for all telecommunications needs. Increase bandwidth and get the very best in Lo-cal, Long Distance, and Internet services.
Broadcasting, TVs and Public Access Television
Valley can handle every aspect of small to medium/large studio designs for the school, corporate and government markets. Valley starts at the initial design level for new construction, through remodeling and up-grading of existing studio locations, or conversion of existing spaces into studio designs and providing the latest in video recording and editing solutions.
Cabling: Data and Voice
Valley installs voice, video and data cabling needs quickly. Whether you are upgrading an old system, installing a new system, relocating or expanding an existing system, Valley gets it right. Valley’s trained and experienced installers will help with the layout of your data cabling installation, run the cables and test them to make sure your systems can connect anywhere in your school or office. Voice Cabling refers to any telephone, fax machine, credit card machine or any equipment that requires a connection to a telephone system or telephone company. Valley can help ensure that your voice cabling is organized, safe and tested and any future upgrades will have minimum cost to convert.
Providing Complete Soultions
Valley works to implement technology that will not just help with immediate problems or challenges but will also set the client up for success down the road. In order for that to happen, Valley employees spend a lot of time educating their clients on what technology is coming down the road. After your system is in-stalled Valley can provide the training you may need to understand and use your new system effectively. Addition-ally, Valley services every-thing it sells with highly skilled, certified and licensed technicians. From sales, to installation, to service—Valley provides complete solutions to all your communications needs for today and tomorrow.
