The U.K.'s Hundred of Hoo School Increases Coverage and Reliability with Xirrus
The United Kingdom's Hundred of Hoo School is a comprehensive secondary school located in the Hoo Peninsula. The school provides standard secondary education as well as offering advanced media facilities. The complex also includes a nursery , a conference centre and sports centre. The school holds specialist Arts College status and provides the best possible facilities for its 1,800 students and 200 staff.
Requirements
- Support high user density throughout classrooms, buildings and outside campus
- Provide seamless roaming and ubiquitous coverage for each user
- Increase coverage and reliability
- Support for data and voice over Wi-Fi
- Easy management and long term ROI
Benefits
- Only 18 Arrays needed to cover the entire campus, versus 72 access points previously deployed
- Support for data and voice on single infrastructure
- Controller based solution to support roaming and QoS
- Fewer devices installed to result in less cabling, switch ports, installation time and maintenance
- Ability to remotely manage and monitor the network
Savings
- Ratio of Wi-Fi Arrays to traditional APs
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1:4 |
- Number of additional access points saved
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54 |
- Number of additional cable runs saved
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54 |
- Number of switch ports that saved
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54 |
- Average power savings per year (kWh)
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10,249 |