Xirrus High-Performance Wi-Fi Covers Britain's Prestigious Uffculme School


Located in a vast rural part of England, Uffculme School is a highly rated secondary school with approximately 1,000 pupils. Servicing over nine villages, the School offers a comprehensive curriculum of 15 subjects ranging from art and foreign languages to information technology along with extra-curricular activities including charity, drama and outdoor pursuits. Uffculme School specializes in mathematics and computing and aims to provide effective formal and informal learning through which all of its pupils will achieve their potential, develop spiritual and moral values, obtain a variety of skills and qualifications which will prepare them for the next stage of their lives, and be a part of a community within which all will feel secure and valued.


Requirements
  • Support large number of connected users simultaneously including pupils and staff
  • Provide wireless support for laptops and mobile devices as well as Channel 4 Clipbank, Office, Adobe Suite and Uffculme's Streaming Media system
  • Minimum devices installed
  • Support for data and voice over Wi-Fi
  • Easy management, upgradeable platform, and long term ROI

Benefits
  • Entire school covered with minimum number of devices; fewer than all competitive offerings
  • Support for high density usage and future 1:1 student to laptop ratio
  • 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
1:4
  • Number of additional access points saved
36
  • Number of additional cable runs saved
36
  • Number of switch ports that saved
36
  • Average power savings per year (kWh)
6,833