Alaska's Galena City School District Goes High Tech with Xirrus Wireless Networking
Located on the banks of the Yukon River in Alaska, the Galena School District has a rich history of innovation and success. The GCS programs bring state-of-the-art technology, recreational facilities, recognized academic excellence, and industry standard vocational programs to a rural Alaskan community. The school's mission is to ensure that all students will succeed in their education and work, shape worthwhile and satisfying lives for themselves, exemplify the best values of society, and be effective in improving the character and quality of the world about them. The Galena Interior Academy is a statewide boarding school for grade 9-12 and is Alaska's longest operating residential secondary vocational school.
Requirements
- Ability to support WDS and Bridging
- Fully upgradeable system
- Minimum devices installed in a rapid deployment
- Dependable vendor to stand behind product and service
Benefits
- Patented built-in bridging capability dramatically reducing the number of cable drops required
- Support for data and voice on single infrastructure
- Architecture designed for variable use and fully scalable
- Fewer devices installed to result in less cabling, switch ports, cost, installation time and maintenance
Savings
- Number of additional access points saved
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90 |
- Number of additional cable runs saved
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90 |
- Number of switch ports that saved
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90 |
- Average power savings per year (kWh)
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3,265 |