Eastern Sierra Unified School District

Eastern Sierra Unified School District Deploys Xirrus Wireless Networking Throughout District


Situated south of Reno, Nevada and east of Mammoth Lakes, California, ESUSD services its elementary, middle, and high school students with top notch staff and technology. Making a district-wide Wi-Fi change is part of an overall technology upgrade that includes over 500 Apple® MacBook® computers and Internet connectivity for students and faculty in order to further enrich the district's curriculum, online project collaboration, and extend reference materials to students where libraries are limited.

Requirements
  • Pervasive, High-Peformance Wi-Fi coverage across four sites, totaling 10 buildings
  • Ability to support high-density classroom environments
  • Secure, reliable connectivity for 300 Apple® MacBook® computers
  • Zero frustrations

Benefits
  • Ability to wirelessly access all types of educational content using computers in and out of the classrooms
  • Maximum coverage, bandwidth, and student capacity with far fewer devices to deploy and manage than the competition
  • Advanced security measures to control student access times
  • Support and technical expertise of the Xirrus account team

Savings
  • Ratio of Wi-Fi Arrays to traditional APs
        4:1
  • Number of additional access points saved
        18
  • Number of additional cable runs saved
        18
  • Number of switch ports saved
        18
  • Average power savings per year (Kwh)
        3,416