"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 "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 "We've been using CACHEBOX for nearly 5 years now and it's certainly benefitted the district over the years"
James Caudell, Blanco Independent School District, USA "CACHEBOX works very well, it's been set and forget for the most part"
Richie Williams, IT Manager, Orchard Farm School District, USA

Cache-rich sultans enjoy faster web

September 23, 2019
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ApplianSys is pleased to announce that Bagdad Unified School District (USD), Arizona, has purchased a CACHEBOX solution to eliminate bandwidth congestion and speed up web browsing.

With an open network policy and hosting over 750 devices for students and staff, the district’s 300Mbps connection was routinely congested by huge software files from Apple, Windows and Microsoft. As a result, web browsing was slow and unreliable, leading teachers to swamp IT staff with support requests.

With plans to introduce more interactive media content and further invest in e-learning platforms for its Maths and English programs (Rosettastone, MathXL, Accellerated reading and maths), Network Administrator Gary Cummins was concerned the district’s link would not be able to cope with additional demand.

Gary applied for cache funding via the federal E-Rate programme and secured the ideal solution with CACHEBOX.

Once deployed, CACHEBOX’s impact was immediate. By offloading more than 21GB of software updates it took the strain off the WAN, freeing up capacity for congestion-free access to other content. And by serving updates directly over the LAN at faster LAN speeds, CACHEBOX delivers them many times faster.

“Since deployment, over 65% of Microsoft and Windows software updates are now served directly from cache – freeing up enough capacity to meet additional classroom demand,” says CACHEBOX Consultant Ilaria Mancinelli.

About

Bagdad Unified School District is situated on Sultan Drive, Bagdad, in a small copper mining community in the high deserts of Arizona. The district caters for 410 students at its 2 schools – elementary and combined junior high / high school. Because of its unique location, the district is nicknamed ‘Home of the Sultans’ and well known across the town for its symbolic Sultan mascot.
Recognised for its academic performance, the district is committed to exploiting learning technologies and online resources.