Address Today#$#s Pressing Education Challenges With Flexible, Low-Cost, Energy-Saving Networking Solutions

Overview

Public and private schools across the U.S. are facing some downright brutal choices when it comes to staffing, budgeting, personal security and discipline. On one hand, students, staff and visitors need to be protected from aberrant physical behavior, unsavory Internet activities and hacked networks. On the other, there's pressure to improve the education product, increase networking coverage, bolster cyber-security and make it easier for users to access information and applications. Individuals within the user populations are now much more tech savvy, as well. They're capable of putting the networks and systems to extreme tests - in terms of bandwidth and performance (e.g. P2P file sharing of video and audio files).