Australia's Wangaratta High School Students Get Covered with Xirrus Wi-Fi
Located in Victoria Australia, Wangaratta High School provides a safe and supportive learning environment where high expectations of behavior and achievement are established and expected of its 1,300 students. These principles are the very foundation of everything that is achieved and taught at the school. To celebrate 100 years of its rich history and excellence in education, Wangaratta High school underwent a major renovation with an entirely new school built to revolutionize the way education takes place. With open spaces to foster student autonomy, wireless networking to increase learning collaboration, and environmentally friendly facilities to be more resource and earth conscious, Wangaratta High School remains committed to its high standards of education.
Requirements
- Support large student population
- Provide seamless roaming for each user and support for Windows laptops, Apple MacBooks, and PDAs.
- Minimum devices installed and less energy consumed
- Support for data and voice over Wi-Fi
- Easy management, changes, upgrades and long term ROI
Benefits
- Full Wi-Fi coverage for newly rebuilt environmentally-friendly high school
- 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
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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9 |
- Number of additional cable runs saved
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9 |
- Number of switch ports that saved
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9 |
- Average power savings per year (kWh)
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3,042 |