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Brocade networking solutions enable schools and school districts to cost-effectively deliver world-class education using innovative technologies that provide new ways of teaching and learning.

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Schools and school districts are striving to enhance their e-learning capabilities. The old "one size fits all" classroom paradigm of a teacher lecturing to a classroom full of students cannot compete with the ways that today's digital natives learn on their own. Today's students have access to the most sophisticated and functional devices imaginable. Customizable e-learning applications and high-speed Internet browsing are providing students—at the individual and small group level—with a more interesting, in-depth, and personalized learning experience that is helping to improve their academic performance. As a result, 1:1 computing is becoming more prevalent, and schools are choosing to use more personal end-user devices in the classroom.

Schools need their networks to support a variety of services, such as providing Internet connectivity and virtual desktops for students, teachers, administrators, guests, and parents; accommodating voice communications and video streaming; and supporting remote monitoring from video surveillance cameras. Educational networks must also offer network security to protect student records and information from hackers. With today's economic realities, schools need networks to be as effective at reducing costs as they are at increasing student performance.

As a leader in networking solutions, Brocade has partnered with schools to tackle these challenges and provide a high-quality learning experience. Brocade offers reliable, high-performance, and cost-effective networking solutions that deliver:

  • Increased network reliability and availability to support anywhere, anytime communications infrastructures now and in the future
  • Strong end-to-end security, including IPSec VPN gateway to prevent unauthorized access to data
  • High-speed, non-blocking 802.11n wireless video, voice, and data services for client access
  • The ability to support wired/wireless traffic and unite devices on a single network
  • Data, voice, and video traffic prioritization and hyper-fast secure roaming
  • The ability to isolate and control access for different user groups (students, faculty, staff, and guests) across the network
  • Unified wired/wireless network management to reduce complexity
  • A full range of professional services and technical support

Learn more about Brocade networking products for schools:

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Technological advances and trends, including improvements in WLAN performance and security, are encouraging IT administrators to consider wireless networks as a core part of every enterprise network. By simplifying wired and wireless deployment through integrated, end-to-end solutions, companies can significantly increase productivity and save costs to achieve unified and robust communications.