Customer Deployments - Pueblo School District No. 70
Pueblo School District No. 70 Chooses Xirrus W-Fi for Student 1:1 Computer Program
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Pueblo School District No. 70 is located in Pueblo Colorado. The District was consolidated from 34 smaller school districts in June of 1950 and is the largest geographical school district in the state of Colorado, educating over 8,000 students across four high schools, six middles schools, 12 elementary schools, two charter schools, one alternative middle and high school, and seven pre-schools. Pueblo School District No. 70 is preparing today's students to succeed in the 21st century by creating an environment to enhance classroom instruction and learning for students from preschool through high school, by integrating technology into the classrooms.
Requirements
- Wi-Fi coverage for three high schools servicing 2,600 students and faculty
- Enough Wi-Fi bandwidth to accommodate 1:1 computing program
- Support for Dell® Latitude D630 notebooks, Dell XT tablets, Windows Mobile® based phones, and Apple® iPhones™
- Secure network so students to access district network and resources as well as the Internet
Benefits
- Less wiring and fewer access points needed throughout the buildings
- Switch replacement allowing them to support a large number of concurrent students without the cost and space required by hard-wired computer labs in each classroom
- The Xirrus Absolute Coverage guarantee
- Only 24 Arrays needed, versus 120 access points
Savings
- Number of additional access points that did not have to be installed
| 96 |
- Number of additional cable runs that did not have to be pulled
| 96 |
- Number of switch ports that did not have to be consumed
| 96 |
- Average power savings per year (kWh)
| 34,632 |
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