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Kansas City School District Embraces IoT and Paves Way for 1:1 Learning with Aerohive Solution
Aerohive
Networks® (NYSE:HIVE), the fastest growing enterprise Wi-Fi vendor,
announced today that Olathe Public Schools, the second largest and
fastest-growing district in Kansas, deployed Aerohive's (News - Alert) enterprise-grade
Wi-Fi solution to support their 1:1 learning initiative across more than
50 schools.
News Facts
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Serving the greater Kansas City Metropolitan Area, Olathe Public
Schools is the second largest and fastest-growing district in the
state. The district is home to 35 elementary schools, nine middle
schools, and four high schools, with plans for a new high school to
open in the coming year. In addition to these schools, the district
has 21 support facilities throughout the area to support more than
29,000 students and over 4,000 staff.
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Olathe Public Schools first deployed a Wi-Fi network in 2004,
installing 3Com (News - Alert) access points in school libraries before wireless was
in high demand. After several years with 3Com, the IT team implemented
a Trapeze network to accommodate changes and growing demand at the
school. A few years ago, the district began having issues with
reliability, which coincided with a 1:1 implementation across many
schools, forcing Olathe to look at new enterprise-grade wireless
solutions to accommodate density and seamless network management, as
well as to upgrade to 802.11ac technology across all schools.
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Olathe's IT team set up a bake-off with solutions from Aerohive,
Aruba, Meraki, and Ruckus at some of the oldest elementary schools in
the district. In 2014, Olathe had many drivers for needing a
rock-solid comprehensive wireless solution that was easy to manage
across the entire network, including upgrades, configurations and
seamless management for more than 22,000 IoT devices on the network.
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Following the evaluations and pilot tests, Aerohive came out on top
for performance and reliability, as well as offering an intuitive and
intelligent network management system. Working with Aerohive reseller
Aercor Wireless, Olathe moved forward to deploy Aerohive across all
schools and throughout the entire district.
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Olathe completed the install in-house and chose Aerohive AP230 access
points, and will soon install AP245X, AP250 and AP550 access points as
the deployment expands and new schools open. At the time of the
initial deployment, Olathe's IT team used Aerohive's mapping tools to
do a walk-through at each school and administrative building to
maximize access point placement.
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The IT team is on-boarding users and devices with Aerohive's Private
Pre-Shared Key (PPSK) technology. Olathe has successfully on-boarded
an initial group of users, with plans to on-board over 22,000 users
onto HiveManager™ NG using PPSK by the end of the summer, creating
unique pre-shared keys for users on the same SSID. This solution is
ideal for a district of Olathe's significant size, as well as for a
1:1 school environment where BYOD capability is not as critical.
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Olathe is currently using CloudPath to on-board users for guest login
onto Aerohive's enterprise-grade Wi-Fi solution, providing the
required enterprise features and interoperability for the district.
Soon, guests and users requiring BYOD will be routed by PPSK to a
separate SSID with a captive web portal for optimal security and
firewall management.
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Olathe's IT team has transitioned students to new devices, such as
Windows devices, MacBooks, iPads and Mac minis. Teachers and
administrators are equipped with Wi-Fi to integrate technology into
the classroom. Every part of the curriculum and classroom is
leveraging the Aerohive solution for efficiency and blended learning.
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Students use educational tools, such as Google (News - Alert) Classroom and Edmodo,
as well as a host of other applications. Teachers and administrators
can take attendance wirelessly, and even print tardy slips from
wireless printing devices. Recently, several middle schools
collaborated on a STEM project, creating wind turbines using wireless
probe devices to test and problem-solve designs. The students used
iPads to Skype (News - Alert) and collaborate via Google Docs on blade design and
other aspects of their projects.
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Olathe Public Schools will continue to expand and advance its
technology initiatives, including integrating many STEM programs and
administrative operations onto the Aerohive network. By expanding the
Wi-Fi network to allow more schools to adopt 1:1 and blended
instruction, Olathe students and teachersare set to embrace future
technologies.
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To read the full Olathe Public Schools case study, please visit: http://www.aerohive.com/customers/Olathe-Public-Schools.html
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Comments
"PPSK is especially ideal for environments like Olathe Public Schools
that are embracing IoT since complex configuration is not required and
support is extended even for devices where 802.1X may not, providing
greater security for our schools," said Jay Merkle, wireless network
engineer, Olathe Public Schools. "Olathe has several thermostats on the
wireless network and other devices such as blood sugar monitors for
certain students that automatically send reports to school nurses. Other
departments, such as the district TV studio, may have needs to request
PPSK as more operations eventually move to wireless devices."
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