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Wifi Solution for School and Colleges

M.S. Ramaiah University, Bangalore

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Problem

Large university in South India that caters to over 18000 students
Over 16 campus buildings housing different departments
Automate user registration and enforce authentication of students, staff and visitors
Over 500 DLink access points and 16 different VLANs
Highly redundant and failsafe architecture

Solution

Deployed Campus Series UniBox controllers in active-active configuration
Designed solution to handle 12000+ concurrent users
Automated student registration using approval-based method and MIS integration
Enforced access and bandwidth policies for each group of users
Maintained access logs and browsing history of each student

Result

Significant improvement in uptime of the WiFi network in the campus
Reduced WiFi complaints by 50% after automating registration and enforcing single sign-on
Increased average browsing speed per student by 60%

Student Housing, Toronto

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Problem

Bell Canada was upgrading Internet infrastructure in student housing near universities
Needs reliable and high performance controller for managing user access and bandwidth
Network needed to support HD video, Gaming consoles, video conferencing and streaming
Needed controller that provided full control, diagnostics and usage analytics

Solution

Bell Canada deployed UniBox controllers for managing the wireless infrastructure
Seamlessly integrated with existing Cisco and Ruckus infrastructure
Provided zero downtime with failover architecture
Implemented multi-WAN for bandwidth aggregation and bandwidth control policies

Result

Improved network performance by 70% within 1 year
Reliable and free Internet increased occupancy for student housing by 30%
Residents were able to easily setup new devices like gaming consoles on the network

Sharda University, Noida

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Problem

Sharda University is one of the largest universities in North India with 20,000 students
Needed campus wide WiFi network with reliable network controller
Needed to handle 1 Gbps Internet backbone and evenly distribute Internet bandwidth
Prevent Internet misuse, track student usage, logs browsing activity and filter URLs

Solution

Deployed UniBox controller for managing 200 acre campus network with failover architecture
Created customized login and student registration process with email and phone verification
Setup bandwidth rules, access policies and web filtering to track all student activities
Implemented separate access network for visitors and staff

Result

Managed network reduced network downtime and improved average browsing speed
Helped system administrators keep student activities in check
Reduced network complaints and provided greater visibility into the network