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Whiteriver Unified School District
Reliable, secure network internet connectivity helps Native American students explore the world outside their Arizona reservation.
- Country: United States Of America
- Industry: Education
- Solution: Data Center, Autonomous Network, Harsh Environments, WiFi Solutions, Unified Access, Video Surveillance
The 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, wired and wireless network. By securely assuring access and connectivity, Pierre Dehombreux and the district have opened opportunities for those growing up on the reservation.
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Challenges
- Parts of the United States remain technologically underserved. Without reliable internet access and connectivity, rural areas such as Whiteriver, struggle to advance their communities and create opportunities for citizens.
- Over the past two decades, 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, and that was self-correcting, would be required.
Action
Results
Technical benefits
- OmniSwitch and Stellar wireless solutions deliver higher performance, improving backbone and access speeds
- 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
User experience benefits
- Security and performance of the network met user expectations
- Teachers utilize more education tools and apps for broader learning
- Students access the network using Chromebooks and other BYOD devices
- Security cameras and secure door access add to campus safety
Products & Solutions
Products
- Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch® 6865 Hardened Ethernet Switch
- Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6465 Compact Hardened Ethernet Switch
- Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6900 Stackable LAN Switch
- Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6860 (E and N) Stackable LAN Switch
- Alcatel-Lucent OmniAcess® Stellar WLAN Access Points
- Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista® 2500 Network Management System
Solutions
- Data Center
- Autonomous Network
- Harsh Environments
- Wi-Fi Solutions
- Unified Access
- Video Surveillance
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Reliable, secure network internet connectivity helps Native American students explore the world outside their Arizona reservation.
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Whiteriver Unified School District short case study
Reliable, secure network internet connectivity helps Native American students explore the world outside their Arizona reservation.