Jefferson County Public Schools Connects Staff and Students with Fabric

Jefferson County Public Schools is ranked among the top 30 K-12 systems in the United States. With 170 locations and over 16,000 employees and 100,000 students, the school system needed a network capable of maintaining user and device connectivity regardless of location as it realized a 1:1 digital learning experience.

Challenges

• Robust bandwidth to support thousands of end-users and their devices regardless of location
• Delivering a 1:1 digital learning experience in classrooms Minimized downtime to give back valuable learning time

Extreme Solutions

• Extreme Fabric Connect™

Results

1:1 Digital Learning

• Reliable, high-speed connectivity for all students and faculty across entire district
• Guaranteed uptime gives back valuable class time for learning

Empowered IT Team

• Simplified network management alleviates workload on JCPS's small IT department
• Newfound time and bandwidth for enables greater focus on high-level goals

Simplified Network Infrastructure

• Hyper-segmentation technology keeps multiple operating systems securely isolated
• Expedited deployments of critical learning applications and devices without impacting network speeds and disruption