Ruyton Girls School selects Brocade for eBook Programme Rollout

Brocade has revealed that students at Melbourne's Ruyton Girls School have deployed their core IT network to enable the students with new online learning opportunities.
 
A key area of the focus was the network core, which depended on a single switch that was identified as a bottleneck and a potential single point of failure. To address this issue and increase bandwidth across the network, the school deployed Brocade ICX 6610 Switches at the network core. This approach is expected to eliminate inter-switch bottlenecks while delivering wire-speed, non-blocking performance across all 1 GbE and 10 GbE switch ports.
 
"With a wide range of media-rich materials – such as video and voice – being consumed, shared and created as we educate today's students, we were experiencing ever-increasing demands on network bandwidth, reliability and resilience. Previously this was not a network issue, as material was stored on the local drives of each device, whereas now most of our online course material is delivered with a 1 Gigabit Ethernet link into Australia's Academic and Research Network," said Chris Karopoulos, IT Manager, Ruyton Girls School
 
Greig Guy, Country Manager Australia and New Zealand, Brocade, stated, "With more young people owning portable communications devices, BYOD is the future for students. With Brocade ICX Switches, Ruyton now boasts a non-stop networking infrastructure with enhanced redundancy and a resilient design, along with a high-speed backbone to support wireless users."
 
The use of Brocade Network Advisor software to centralize and streamline network management will save the School approximately half a day per week in network administration. This will make network reliability crucial as the school transitions from paper textbooks to eBooks.