SUCCESS STORY: Evangeline Parish School District
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- Brocade VDX 6740 Switches
- Brocade ICX 6610 Switches
- Brocade ICX 6450 Switches
- Brocade Network Advisor
Tech Stack
- Ethernet fabric top-of-rack switch
- Layer 3 routing services
- Power over Ethernet (PoE)
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
- VMware View
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
- Digital Expertise
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries
- Education
Applicable Functions
- Human Resources
- Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases
- Building Automation & Control
- Remote Collaboration
- Virtual Training
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Hardware Design & Engineering Services
- Software Design & Engineering Services
About The Customer
Evangeline Parish School District is a rural school district in Louisiana, United States. It serves approximately 6000 students across 12 schools. The district was faced with the challenge of upgrading its outdated network infrastructure to support upcoming computer-based Common Core testing requirements. The district's network infrastructure was outdated, leading to frequent speed, connectivity, and latency problems with both the wired and wireless networks. This resulted in poor application performance and switches dropping users when network traffic peaked. The district also faced issues with aging Cisco wireless equipment, which relied on Power over Ethernet (PoE) injectors, deployed in the ceiling near each access point. The injectors generated heat, which in turn affected the access points and made them unreliable.
The Challenge
Evangeline Parish School District, serving approximately 6000 students in 12 schools in rural Louisiana, was faced with the challenge of upgrading its network to support upcoming computer-based Common Core testing requirements. The district’s network infrastructure, including the cabling, was outdated, leading to frequent speed, connectivity, and latency problems with both the wired and wireless networks. This resulted in poor application performance and switches dropping users when network traffic peaked. The district also faced issues with aging Cisco wireless equipment, which relied on Power over Ethernet (PoE) injectors, deployed in the ceiling near each access point. The injectors generated heat, which in turn affected the access points and made them unreliable. When problems arose, an IT team member would have to drop everything and drive out to the school, which might be 40 miles away, resulting in lost teaching time.
The Solution
The district turned to Brocade solutions and DETEL Wireless, a Brocade partner and leading provider of technology solutions for the K12 education community in Louisiana. The Brocade team helped Evangeline Parish evaluate its needs and designed a reliable, manageable, and expandable network with a simple architecture. The data center now uses Brocade VDX® 6740 Switches to provide 10 Gbps connectivity to Brocade ICX® 6610 Switches in the network core. Each school uses a Brocade ICX 6610 Switch to provide advanced Layer 3 routing services for 10 Gbps WAN and LAN interconnection while also acting as a 10 Gbps aggregation point for Brocade ICX 6450 Switches at the edge. Brocade Network Advisor simplifies troubleshooting by centralizing management of the entire family of Brocade wired products and Aruba wireless products. Now the IT team can see, manage, and deploy configurations anywhere across the network.
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