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Customer Deployments - Envision School District

Envision School District Deploys Xirrus for Personalized Learning


Envision Schools is a non-profit charter organization located in the San Francisco Bay Area, currently operating four innovative college-preparatory high schools with a fifth scheduled to open in Fall of 2007. Co-founded by Daniel McLaughlin, a former Vice President at Bank of America, and Bob Lenz, an award-winning teacher and nationally recognized school reform leader, Envision Schools began operations in June 2002 with support from many organizations including a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. ES creates small, high-performing urban public schools designed to serve diverse student bodies and is recognized with high attendance rates and impressive test results. To support its instructional model based on project-based, personalized, and workplace learning, ES is in need of increasing its wide area network and is rolling out the latest in technology.

Requirements
  • High bandwidth connection to the internet throughout all school campuses to support students, faculty and staff
  • Support authentic learning approach that integrates multiple subject-matter disciplines when teaching a particular subject
  • Highly secure network

Solution
  • Xirrus High Performance XS4 and XS8 Wi-Fi Arrays

Benefits
  • Higher bandwidth coverage per device
  • Centralized Management without requiring large amounts of control traffic going over WAN links
  • Advanced security features including an integrated Stateful Firewall and multiple SSIDs with secure authentication and encryption settings

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