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With Exinda’s WAN optimization solutions, students & faculty benefit from:

• The use of online learning systems such as Blackboard
• Real-time collaboration and communication between classrooms
• Improved response time for online assessments
• Seamless streaming of educational content
• Secure, safe internet environment for students

Information technology is increasingly being used to support innovative models of teaching and learning.  K-12 schools and school boards are embracing new applications that enable educators to share information and collaborate on new educational programs, as well as those that enhance and promote learning for students.  

School networks must be able to support the delivery of these applications while providing a secure, safe, and controlled network environment for  students.

Exinda’s WAN optimization tools are enabling K-12 schools and boards to increase the available bandwidth in the network and optimize performance of educational tools and applications. At the same time, Exinda’s network appliance enables the schools’ network administrators to manage and control network traffic in accordance with school board policies. Administrators can give priority to educational applications, while limiting or blocking access to other types of traffic and content.

Exinda addresses the challenges that network operators face to accelerate and increase application delivery under strict budgets. By improving network performance and their ability to monitor network traffic, school boards can maximize the use of their existing networks, without the need for additional spending on their infrastructure.

Higher Education

Universities face a unique set of WAN performance challenges. Heavy use of laptops and other wireless devices consume large amounts of wireless network bandwidth. Satellite campuses, dormitories, libraries and eLearning applications all contribute to an enormous volume of traffic passing across the WAN. Universities specializing in scientific and medical research must also facilitate real-time collaboration between peers and support bandwidth-intensive online applications.

Exinda’s WAN optimization solutions have helped universities around the world to monitor, control and increase network performance to support the increasing use of eLearning, file sharing and other high-bandwidth applications, while ensuring that students experience consistent network access. While universities are frequently pioneers in using networking technologies to advance communications and education for students, they also require strict policies and controls to limit or restrict usage to protect proprietary their resources and prevent inappropriate use of school networks.

University network operators must also maximize available bandwidth in the network so that recreational traffic such as P2P (peer to peer) file sharing and social networking doesn’t impede network performance. Exinda allows universities to establish fair-sharing and usage controls in such a way that they do not impede network access or performance for tuition-paying students. This allows institutions to balance the needs of students with the requirement to maintain network and application performance while lowering network operating costs.

With Exinda, administrators can:

• Accelerate applications
• Control network access
• Increase network speed and performance
• Monitor and prioritize network traffic

Key features and benefits for higher education:

• Control recreational usage and P2P traffic that threatens network performance
• Accelerate legitimate eLearning, research and administrative applications
• Make the most of available network resources and defer bandwidth upgrades
• Optimize the WAN so satellite campuses and remote users experience near LAN-like speed