Published: June 28, 2011
HP Makes the Grade with K-12 Educational Institutions from Coast to Coast
PALO ALTO, Calif. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced that three large school districts have
chosen HP
Networking solutions to improve network performance and keep pace
with the demands of thousands of students and faculty.
Thompson
School District in Colorado, Westerly
Public Schools in Rhode Island and Paso
Robles School District in California evaluated networking solutions
from HP as well as Cisco and other vendors. Each district selected HP
Networking products to address increased bandwidth consumption on their
networks by laptops and mobile devices.
In addition, growing student and faculty populations required IT
departments to deliver on-demand services rapidly, securely and
affordably.
HP Networking solutions are part of the HP Converged
Infrastructure portfolio, which integrates data center technologies
into pools of interoperable resources to improve agility.
Network upgrade speeds performance, increases flexibility
Supporting more than 17,000 students and staff across 35 locations,
Thompson School District needed to upgrade its 10-year-old network
infrastructure to keep the district's operations running smoothly. The
highly competitive bid also included Cisco, Foundry and Extreme
Networks. The district selected HP products through Lewan
& Associates, a provider of networking solutions and an HP
channel partner.
"Our existing network was not keeping pace with our bandwidth demands,"
said Derrick Hoffman, senior systems engineer, Thompson School District.
"The new HP-based network delivers over 50 percent better performance
than the old one. In addition, with HP's lifetime warranty we can free
up budget to invest in other IT projects that provide value to faculty
and students."
Thompson has deployed more than 160 HP edge and core switches. HP E5400zl
switches provide consistent connectivity at the core, while HP E3000
intelligent-edge switches perform routing on the district's wide-area
network. At the core of these switches is HP
ProVision ASIC, which ensures quality of service and scalable,
granular security. Thompson also opted for HP intelligent-edge,
dual-radio HP
E-MSM310 access points, which provide secure wireless connections
for approximately 6,000 desktop and notebook PCs throughout the district.
Extended wireless network addresses boom of mobile devices
With more than 4,000 students and faculty, Westerly Public School
District was struggling with the growing use of laptops and
internet-enabled mobile devices connected to its network. After
evaluating solutions from HP and Cisco, Westerly chose HP
E8200 zl, HP
E5400 zl and HP
E2910 al series switches. Westerly also selected HP
E-series MSM wireless controllers and HP
Networking Manager Plus for simplified, single-pane-of-glass
management of its wired and wireless network environments.
"We started experiencing an increase in the number of devices connecting
to our network, and the subsequent rise in the volume of data being
accessed," said Mark Lamson, director, Information Technology, Westerly
Public Schools. "HP Networking products allowed us to enhance the
performance of our wired and wireless networks without sacrificing
security or manageability."
Revamping IT for faster and more secure connectivity
Paso Robles School District serves more than 7,000 faculty and students
across 13 campuses. After evaluating competing HP and Cisco solutions,
Paso Robles chose the standards-based HP E2910 al and E5400
zl switch series, as well as HP
E-series MSM wireless controllers. By simplifying network management
and increasing network performance at a reduced total cost of ownership,
Paso Robles gained a significant return on its IT investment.
"A school district of our size needs a robust and reliable IT system,"
said Carl Behmer, technology supervisor, Paso Robles School District.
"HP Networking solutions enabled us to deliver quality service to our
students and faculty without network downtime."
At the International
Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) 2011 education
conference, HP also announced
new products for the HP
Digital Learning Suite and that Derry Township School District has
chosen HP notebooks for the expansion of its one-to-one computer program
to schools throughout the district.
More information about HP networking solutions is available at www.hp.com/networking.
HP Converged
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Enterprise. The Instant-On Enterprise embeds technology in
everything it does to serve customers, employees, partners and citizens
with whatever they need, instantly.
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