Leading High School in Sweden Increases Wireless Networking Bandwidth 14X with Xirrus 802.11n


Minervagymnasium is an independent public secondary school located on the Umea University campus in Umea, Sweden. The school focuses educational activities on the sciences, crafts, and music with a concerted effort to teach social skills, communication, language, culture, and health of mind and body. The faculty and staff strive to provide the knowledge and guidance in such a way that the student, on their own merits and goals, can lay the foundation for lifelong learning with a solid foundation in technology and good understanding of global issues. Minervagymnasium has been the highest ranked school on contemporary issues in Vasterbotten County every year since 2006.


Requirements
  • Support for students and faculty throughout entire campus including classrooms, hallways, and meeting areas
  • Provide sufficient bandwidth for 475+ Apple Macbooks and iPhones
  • Nearly 10Gbps of Wi-Fi bandwidth with only four devices
  • Support for seamless roaming, data and voice over Wi-Fi
  • Easy management and long term ROI

Benefits
  • Increased Wi-Fi bandwidth 14X from a few hundred megabits to 10 Gigabits
  • Latest 11n technology enhancing interaction and communication between students, parents, and teachers
  • Controller based solution to support roaming and QoS
  • Fewer devices installed to result in less cabling, switch ports, installation time and maintenance

Savings
  • Ratio of Wi-Fi Arrays to traditional APs
1:6
  • Number of additional access points saved
20
  • Number of additional cable runs saved
20
  • Number of switch ports that saved
20
  • Average power savings per year (kWh)
4,205