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KCK Public Schools Partner with AOS to Solve Wireless Needs
The Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools are the oldest schools in Kansas. The
First School (or National School) was the first free public school in Kansas.
Located at the time in Indian Territory, the school opened July 1, 1844. This
was the first building built solely for school purposes, freely serving both
Indian and white children.
Built and taught by John McIntyre Armstrong, the school was located near
what is today 4th street between State Avenue and Nebraska.
Kansas City, Kansas Public schools recently instated a “One-To-One Laptop
Initiative” and was the driver of updating their wireless infrastructure to
accommodate 5,500 laptops in their high school.
After discussing the needs and expectations the school district held of AOS,
the final solution was Cisco wireless access points and controllers. A key
selling point was the ability to manage the access points and controllers from
one central point.
Steve Haney, Network Manager noted that “we immediately had to make
some design changes—not because the solution wasn’t implemented
correctly, but because we quickly discovered it wasn’t being utilized as we
originally envisioned. Since then, the wireless equipment has performed
very well for the users.”
“AOS and Kansas City, Kansas School District worked together to develop a
plan that would allow us to seamlessly deploy almost 1,000 Cisco access
points to support over 5,000 laptops in a window of less than two weeks,”
explained Doug Hanshaw, AOS account manager for the district. “Our plan
also included centralized management of the solution by using Cisco
Wireless Controllers which allowed us to easily add and manage access
points on the fly,” added Hanshaw. Although extremely large in scope, the
project was completed on time and KCK Schools fulfilled their promise to
deliver a laptop to every student in each of their high schools and provide
them with wireless access to conduct their ongoing studies.
Steve complimented AOS on its strength of our “proactive, competent, and
timely sales team, engineers, project management, account management,
service, and support.”
To Steve, this wireless deployment is “another job well done.” |