CACHEBOX reduces Santa Ana’s load

ApplianSys is pleased to announce that Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) in California has purchased a CACHEBOX310 to reduce the load on its congested internet connection.

Catering to 56,000 students, 3500 staff and 20,000 computers, SAUSD’s 1 Gbps bandwidth would be saturated through much of the school day. The district didn’t have the capacity it needed to cope with demand for online learning material, YouTube videos and news sites. Videos were very slow to buffer which made it difficult for teachers to incorporate technology into the classroom.

The district plans to deploy a 1:1 scheme across all 61 of its schools, initially piloting at 5 middle schools. The scheme would provide each student with a Chromebook to encourage independent learning during lessons. “Santa Ana were concerned about the duplicated downloads it already saw for educational content from Smarty Ants, Windows and app updates,” comments Sophie Clark, ApplianSys Sales Executive “By adding thousands more devices to its network, the district feared that their internet connection would become unusable.”

Santa Ana therefore sought a caching solution to save bandwidth in the short-term and complement its long-term plans to upgrade to a 10Gbps connection in mid 2015.

“CACHEBOX gives Santa Ana a solution for their short-term requirement to make better use of existing bandwidth. And when the district upgrades to a bigger connection next year, CACHEBOX will reduce latency, improving the connection speeds that students experience in the classroom.”

Santa Ana Unified School District consists (http://www.sausd.us/) caters to 56,000 K12 at 61 schools across the United States’ 57th largest city. It is the 6th largest school district in California, with approximately 40% non-English language students.