Marshall Independent School District

With their updated infrastructure, Marshall is now looking into the possibility of rolling out VoIP system-wide.

Marshall Independent School District is located in Marshall, Texas.

The district has 1 early childhood development center, 6 elementary schools, 2 middle schools, 1 junior high school and 1 high school.

The District also supports 3 satellite campuses and other administrative facilities.

Challenges

They wanted to refresh the existing outdated network, while building an infrastructure with higher performance that would support new devices and new applications.

They increased capacity 100-fold, allowing for high bandwidth applications, and capability to handle mobile devices in the hands of students.
The network infrastructure is capable of future growth and long life switches.
They have lower power consumption for ports that in use and idle, smaller size requirements, less cooling all make for a lower operational cost for the long lifespan of their network.