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Deer Creek School District in Edmond, Oklahoma has replaced their existing low-frequency wireless radios with BridgeWave’s (News - Alert) gigabit wireless links. Featuring exclusive AdaptRate technology, the BridgeWave AR80X GigE radios provide increased bandwidth and improved network services to the district’s rural campuses.

 

The District faced several problems before deploying BridgeWave’s gigabit wireless links. Deer Creek provides students and faculty with remote access to the District's computer system, and two of the District’s elementary schools – each located four miles away from the data center – relied on low frequency wireless solutions to connect to the District’s existing network.

 

Interference issues and severe weather in the region caused problems with maintaining connections to the District Offices’ data center. Also, the teachers at the elementary schools were not able to reliably utilize essential education applications such as online programs, video, and classroom Internet sessions on the network due to the limited bandwidth from low frequency wireless solutions.

 

In order to solve all these problems, Tony Brancich, director of technology at Deer Creek Public Schools, searched for an affordable, reliable and high-performance solution to address the lack of bandwidth and connectivity for the two schools. He required a gigabit of bandwidth for applications, including data, video and voice over IP (VoIP) traffic and found BridgeWave’s 80 GHz high-frequency, licensed wireless radios to be the best solution.

 

Brancich selected BridgeWave’s AR80X product after considering the four miles of distance between each school and the data center, and the heavy rain conditions. Boasting exclusive AdaptRate capability, the AR80X radios momentarily switch transmissions from GigE to 100 Mb/s data rates during intense or violent weather patterns or during moments of torrential downpour, to maintain a highly available link.

 

BridgeWave’s AdaptRate technology has the ability to temporarily increase link budget by reducing over-the-air signal bandwidth instead of changing modulation. This capability ultimately improves link availability in times of heavy rainfall. Deer Creek decided to install radios at both the elementary schools as well as the data center to serve as the functioning network backbone as well as for backup, said BridgeWave.

 

The BridgeWave AR80X AdaptRate radios also feature built-in AdaptPath capability that extends the reach of gigabit wireless, while ensuring superior link availability. Thanks to this functionality, Deer Creek was able to leverage the flexibility in meeting network capacity, range and uptime requirements and provide higher levels of service availability.

 

Amir Makleff, president and CEO of BridgeWave stated that BridgeWave provides schools with an affordable, fiber-equivalent alternative. He emphasized that their technology is the perfect solution for large, rural districts like Deer Creek that need to stretch their IT budgets.

 

 

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