Southington Public Schools Facilitate Modern Learning Environment

Southington Public Schools (SPS) is a district located in Connecticut that serves 6,200+ students in grades PreK through 12. Founded in 1779, the district oversees twelve schools, providing educational services via 725 faculty members. The mission of SPS is to engage students in a range of academic experiences to become informed, adaptive problem solvers who are committed to improving themselves and their communities.

Challenges

• Difficulty connecting student and faculty devices across multiple schools
• Significant increased number of devices connecting to network
• Improve uptime to 100%
• Enhanced bandwidth to support critical, bandwidth-hungry learning applications

Extreme Solutions

• ExtremeSwitching™
• ExtremeWireless™
• ExtremeCloud™ IQ

Results

• Seamless deployment of modern network infrastructure
• Easy onboarding of existing switches and APs simplified phase out of old hardware to upgraded equipment
• Improved uptime means less interruption in classroom, giving back value time to teachers
• Reliable connectivity for thousands of devices across the district
• Scalable solutions will meet the future needs of the district as it grows and develops new initiatives requiring a high performing network