600studentsasateachingandlearningtool.
Despite being equipped with iPads, teachers and students alike were not making use of
them. The reason for this was because of the slow network access speeds. Apps would
not download and course contents were inaccessible. Often, having more than a couple
studentsconnectedtothesameWiFiaccesspointwasenoughtobringittoitsknees.
ColégioNextneededauniquesolution,sotheycontactedPeplink.
Requirements
Solve network congestion problem caused by 600 students over rural Internet
connections
WiFithatcanhandle50+usersperclassroom
An affordable network infrastructure that can provide simultaneous access to
mediaricheducationalcontent
Solution
PeplinkMediaFast
MultiWANContentcachingrouter,tailormadeforEducationnetworking.
APOne300M
EnterprisegradeAP,5GHzWiFi,upto60concurrentusers.
Benefits
Instant,simultaneousaccesstomediaricheducationalcontentfor500+iPads
WiFi connection stability for 50+ users per classroom, not achievable by other
testedequipment
Teachers, students and guests can be assigned access priority to available
bandwidth,furtherpreventingcongestion
iOS updates (often 2GB size) no longer congest the network as they are
downloaded only once, cached on the MediaFast and then distributed to all iOS
devices
AP Controller makes MAC Address Filtering easy. Students are assigned to
designated APs by their devices' MAC Address in order to prevent saturating any
singleAP.
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