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Enabling the spread of education through the use of technology, Mesa Public Schools in Mesa, Arizazona, will deploy Colubris (News - Alert) 802.11n WLAN equipment. With this, the students and employees of the school district will get next-generation wireless applications and services.

 

Being the nation’s 38th largest school district, Mesa Public Schools have more than 10,000 employees who cater to the educational needs of approximately 75,000 students in 97 different school locations. With the help of Colubris’ 802.11n wireless gear, the school plans to connect a wide variety of applications such as student information, library management and physical plant work order systems to e-mail, Internet access and streaming video. With this, the school will look to provide its students and employees an unprecedented level of mobile access to key information and resources.

 

Mesa Public Schools receives a live feed from its sister school in Fairfax, Virginia through streaming video. With their Colubris 802.11n equipment, more than capable of delivering error-free viewing, Mesa Public Schools can enjoy the feed over a Wi-Fi connection, eliminating the fear of performance degradation and an unsatisfactory viewing experience. Also, school security officers can use the WLAN to easily check on students’ current schedules or status with a handheld device.

 

Colubris’ integration partner for the project is Able Information Technologies, a provider of complete technology solutions for the education sector. The first phase of deployment, which involves approximately 40 different sites, is currently underway and expected to be completed within 18 months. Mesa Public Schools is looking to complete the entire project, which covers 97 locations within three years.

 

“Our goal with this project is to enable reliable wireless access to our central network from anywhere on a school’s campus, and do so in a highly secure, cost-effective way,” said Eric Freed, network operations supervisor, Mesa Public Schools.

 

“In addition to the applications we use to run our schools’ operations, many of our Internet-based, multimedia educational applications – such as virtual operating rooms, flight simulators and streaming video - require a lot of bandwidth for proper performance. Deploying Colubris’ 802.11n gear means that our students and teachers can access the applications they want to, where and when they want to, without being impeded by the limitations of an Ethernet cable,” added Freed.

 

 

 

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