Kew High School

Kew High School Solves High Density Wireless Networking with Xirrus 802.11n

Kew High School is a co-educational school for students from years 7-12. It has over 1000 students from the neighborhoods of Kew, Balwyn, Ivanhoe, East Ivanhoe, Alphington, Clifton Hill, Richmond, Abbotsford and Hawthorn. Kew High School has established a firm reputation for providing a secure environment and high quality learning experiences to help all students achieve their full potential. Computer technology has been progressively integrated into the curriculum with four fully equipped computer laboratories, many pods of computers in classrooms with two class sets of laptops using wireless technology, and further technology support in our well-equipped Resource Centre.

• Enough Wi-Fi density and bandwidth to support a 1:1 initiative for students
• “Controller-less” Wi-Fi architecture that distributes the intelligence to the network edge
• Manageability from a central point

• One Wi-Fi Array supports three classrooms with 25 computers in each
• Easily scale from today’s 1:2 initiative with COWs to 1:1 initiative with hundreds of notebook computers
• Central manageability through the Xirrus Management System makes deployment and manageability a breeze