怀特里弗联合学区(Whiteriver Unified School District)

Reliable, secure network internet connectivity helps Native American students explore the world outside their Arizona reservation.

Pays: États-Unis
活动领域:教育
解决方案:数据中心, 自主网络, 在艰苦环境, WiFi Solutions, Accès unifié, 视频监控

The 怀特里弗联合学区(Whiteriver Unified School District) serves the communities of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in Eastern Arizona. With more than 2400 students and staff, the district includes five schools and an administration building across a rural, underserved area.

A vision to elevate and extend the reach of Native American students via the Internet came true with the implementation of a reliable, sophisticated, and secure, 有线和无线网络. By securely assuring access and connectivity, Pierre Dehombreux and the district have opened opportunities for those growing up on the reservation.

从一开始, we wanted our network to provide our students the ability to communicate with the world outside to gain more education. ALE showed interest in being a partner to build this network.

Pierre Dehombreux, Director of Information Technology, 怀特里弗联合学区(Whiteriver Unified School District)

Whiteriver学校客户视频

Défis

Parts of the United States remain technologically underserved. Without reliable internet access and connectivity, 农村地区，如怀特里弗, struggle to advance their communities and create opportunities for citizens.
过去二十年, Whiteriver’s IT leader has strived to expand technology, and ease of access for the district’s students and staff. This entailed creating a fiber backbone, backed-up by licensed microwave for redundancy. This was followed with a network architecture that would provide sufficient reliable bandwidth to all Whiteriver students, teachers, and staff, suitable to meet 21st century learning needs. With the build-out came the question: How do we secure an open network? An intelligent network with access policy enforcement, reliability, security, 这是自我纠正。, 将被要求.

Action

Whiteriver conducted a thorough evaluation of solutions from several vendors for the network refresh. The incumbent vendor had lost touch with Whiteriver after it had been acquired by another company. Service and support proved to be a key element in Whiteriver’s decision criteria for the new network. 由三名工作人员提供支持, with only one certified to manage the network, it needed to offer a combination of automation, reliability, 高级安全特性集, to satisfy Whiteriver’s demanding requirements. Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise networking solutions was selected to deliver on these needs. Today Whiteriver has built a sophisticated, 高级局域网网络, WAN and WLAN which is beyond many big city schools. Most recently, the network has enabled Whiteriver to deploy security cameras and door access on their five campuses.

Résultats

Technical benefits

OmniSwitch and Stellar wireless solutions deliver higher performance, 提高骨干和访问速度
An intuitive CLI and friendly OmniVista2500 NMS streamline day-to-day management
Security at the network level is enforced using advanced automated user and device access policies
Resiliency is achieved using virtual chassis, redundant links, and a dedicated out-of-band network

Financial benefits)

A network automation fabric eases operational overhead
ALE switches deliver technology advances with an anticipated 5+ year lifecycle
Considerably more cost-effective to deploy and maintain than the previous network