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- Humble ISD's Centralized, Clustered Network Infrastructure Is Improving the Quality of Education Through 20-Fold Faster Data Access, Greater Uptime, More Reliable Data Backup and a 40% Reduction in IT Administration Time
- The Humble Independent School District is named for a pioneering Texas settler, not for its approach to education. The fast-growing Humble Independent School District needed to improve network bandwidth and uptime, make data backup faster and more reliable, and reduce the time its IT staff spent on repairs and routine...
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- Arlington Independent School District Deploys Unified Communications to Cost-Effectively Enhance School Safety
- The Arlington Independent School District AISD is the ninth largest school district in Texas, with 74 school campuses and 63,000 students. Arlington Independent School District ISD wanted to ensure effective emergency communication and cost-effectively provide telephone coverage for every classroom. The challenge was to reduce communications operating costs. As a...
- Case studies 2007-10-10
- Acceptable use policy? What's that?
- Kids these days...If my students spent half as much time studying as they do trying to get around my content filters, wed have a bunch of Harvard-bound geniuses. I spend way too much time keeping the latest proxies blocked and otherwise thwarting attempts to get to their MySpace and...
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- US chip leadership is in trouble - but business is good
- US chip leadership is in trouble - but business is goodDistorting the market forces...If I remember correctly, letting the market forces take care of this would be a better approach in the long-term. Right?If so, those chipmakers should be looking for the best place to set their factories and then...
- Discussion threads 2006-07-03
- Is Mac OS as safe as ever?
- Is Mac OS as safe as ever?It's Just a Matter of Time...There was a time when viruses were not on anyone's radar for Windows either... OS X users, though better protected, should not be reckless. Use Protection !Safe no more.This was inevitable. Viruses for Windows has become...
- Discussion threads 2006-02-27
- Improving the Management and Efficiency of Instructional Systems Development Teams
- This paper presents solutions for select problem areas that impact instructional systems development teams and introduces Integrated Knowledge Elements or iKe, a tool that can improve communications, increase efficiencies, and significantly reduce development time. Using iKe, Instructional Systems Development ISD teams can produce web-based or CDROM-based training products that conform...
- White papers 2004-09-30
- Optical Network Ensures a Bright Future for Growing School District
- Klein ISD is a sprawling suburban school district. The community wanted a phone in every classroom. They wanted teachers to be able to call parents or emergency personnel without leaving the classroom. Forming the core of the new network will be 12 Passport 8600 routing switches arranged in a physical...
- Case studies
- Cisco Video Applications in K-12 - Washington Township Independent School System
- Washington Township Independent School District ISD in Sewell, New Jersey is a vibrant community in the southeastern suburbs of Philadelphia. Washington Township ISD did not have a strong record of maximizing their technology ROI. Expenditures were made on certain technologies that did not meet expectations and new equipment was under...
- Case studies
- Cisco Video Applications in K-12 - Denton Independent School District
- Denton Independent School District ISD borders the northern suburbs of Dallas, Texas. Teachers and administrators, concerned for their students and families, felt isolated and did not have access to breaking news and video. The superintendent had limited communication channels to reach out to staff and students to calm nerves and...
- Case studies
- Spring ISD Makes the Grade With VMware
- Spring ISD in Houston is one of the largest school districts in Texas, serving some 26,500 students from kindergarten through high school. Spring ISD needed a more efficient setup for its grading servers. After testing and a successful trial rollout on three servers during the summer, Spring ISD chose GSX...
- Case studies
- Dell Case Study: San Angelo, Independent School District
- The San Angelo, Texas, Independent School District operates as a traditional kindergarten-though-grade 12-school system. The San Angelo Independent School District wanted to migrate their 40 servers to a single platform. Evans' first step in migrating to a single Microsoft Exchange platform began with managing the installation of eight new Dell...
- Case studies
- Nortel Networks Case Study: Tyler Independent School District
- Founded in 1882, the Tyler Independent School District ISD is the largest in East Texas, with facilities at 31 sites. Focused on using technology solutions to streamline communication throughout the district, Tyler ISD decided that a next-generation communication system capable of providing Internet connectivity, e-mail, and advanced phone services was...
- Case studies
- Distance Learning in Spring Independent School District
- Spring ISD is centered 20 miles north of Houston, Texas. To provide needed distance-learning services, the Spring Independent School District ISD would have to transmit video across its 22-campus network. However, the District lacked both the necessary infrastructure and the funds required to build it. Nortel Networks conducted an ROI...
- Case studies
- Delivering Multimedia Content to the Classroom
- The Plano Independent School District ISD serves the residents of southwest Collin County, Texas, just north of Dallas. The Plano IT department needed to accommodate current network requests while also building an infrastructure that could scale to meet future needs. As the Plano district investigated new switching solutions, it based...
- Case studies
- Klein Independent School District (ISD): Optical Network Ensures a Bright Future for Growing School District
- Klein ISD is a sprawling suburban school district that covers 87.5 square miles of north Harris County, Texas. Klein ISD needed to upgrade a 32-site Metropolitan Area Network MAN whose voice system was producing an annual telephone bill of over $500,000 and whose data system was running at 75% to...
- Case studies
- Birdville ISD: Creating an Infrastructure for Change - And a Partnership for Success
- Birdville ISD is a large district located in Tarrent County, Texas, an urban/suburban region that includes seven cities near Ft. Worth. Closing the "achievement gap". In student learning through advanced technology was a challenge for Birdville ISD. Meeting the education needs of an economically-disadvantaged student population and overcoming annual budget...
- Case studies
- K-12 School District Makes Big Move to Wireless, Giving Students, Faculty and IT Staff Hassle Free Connectivity
- Spring Independent School District Spring ISD, north of Houston, Texas, is known for its innovation in technology to enhance education. As a next step, the school board wanted to provide one-to-one, continuous computer and network access to every single one of the 27,000 students in the district. But before choosing...
- Case studies
- Texas Public Schools Go Wireless, Connecting Teachers to the World
- Due to their range and accessibility limitations, traditional telephones are unable to respond adequately to the physical and logistical challenges faced by teachers every day. In addition, traditional telephones are also ineffective in the classroom environment. With limited coverage and disruptive ringing, traditional wired phone systems are proving to be...
- Case studies
- Avnet Case Study: Navarro Independent School District
- Located in central Texas near the city of Austin, the Navarro Independent School District ISD continues to experience steady growth. The district had an existing network that was becoming increasingly unstable and unreliable. Outmoded technology and inadequate bandwidth to securely support various user needs were making the system virtually obsolete....
- Case studies
- Dell Partnerships Support Successful TIP Program
- In order to introduce wireless technology into curriculums, the Texas Education Agency has formed the new Technology Immersion Pilot TIP program to provide wireless computer resources to students and teachers in an effort to develop technology skills, including schools with smaller budgets. Clarksville ISD, located in Red River County, Texas,...
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