"We rolled out 1200 Chromebooks to classrooms and CACHEBOX means that we haven't needed to increase our bandwidth."
Rodney Leer, Brenham Independent School District, USA "Our bandwidth problems have been practically eliminated. Monitoring & customization is a snap with the web interface."
Desert Academy, Santa Fe, USA "ApplianSys is the only vendor that takes the time to look at our appliances for us, and it really goes a long way."
Mike Caruso, Orland Park Consolidated High School District 230, USA "CACHEBOX is already caching quite a few items and saving us considerable bandwidth!"
William Shaffer, Onsite Tech, Conemaugh Valley School District, USA "Without CACHEBOX we would have died on the vine; we now save between 47 to 68% of our bandwidth and have seen speed increases up to 150%!"
Gregory Moore, Technology Assistant, Hope Public Schools

Indy 310 boost for Perry

October 23, 2014
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ApplianSys is pleased to announce that Perry Township School District in Indianapolis has purchased a CACHEBOX310 to save bandwidth and support the growing number of devices on its network.

Like many schools in the US, Perry Township’s internet connection was struggling to deliver an increasing volume of online education content at a usable speed. With 450Mbps to share between 17 schools, the district’s bandwidth was regularly at full capacity.

“Perry Township already used traffic shaping and content filtering to help reduce the strain on its connection,” says Sophie Clark, ApplianSys Sales Executive. “But with an additional 3,000 devices to support, peak demand for bandwidth was going to significantly outweigh capacity. Buying additional bandwidth seemed unavoidable.”

Even a modest upgrade would cost thousands of dollars per month, so before signing up, the district investigated web caching as an alternative. A key concern was to find a cache that would work with the district’s existing internet filter.

“CACHEBOX was designed with schools for schools, so can be integrated with a range of existing content filters” comments Sophie. “By deploying CACHEBOX310, the district has been able to delay its bandwidth upgrade. Its schools now have the capacity needed to fully support online content like YouTube, which previously had to be de-prioritised by traffic shaping.”

Metropolitan School District of Perry Township (http://www.perryschools.org) provides K-12 education to over 14,000 students at 17 Elementary, Middle and High schools in Perry Township, a southern part of the city of Indianapolis.