Ruskin Infants School

Ruskin Infants School is based in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, with 190 pupils on roll. The school had an ageing WiFi network and insufficient cabled network capacity to support their existing teaching and learning requirements – which was uncovered during the due diligence process prior to conversion to joining the Lion Academy Trust in January 2020.

The Solution

The first requirement was to deliver a full rewire and upgrade to Cat6 cabling, along with installing a new comms cabinet and termination point for separately procured fibre broadband. This was procured through Simpli-Fi’s partner installation company and was project managed and overseen by the Simpli-Fi account management team. All legacy domestic-grade network infrastructure was removed prior to installing a new Ruckus wireless network as part of the agreed Simpli-Fi managed WiFi service.

Challenges

At the point of joining the Lion Academy Trust, the school was reliant on poorly installed domestic-grade network infrastructure, with large areas of the school premises experiencing no wireless coverage at all.

Following a full network audit, Simpli-Fi needed to install a temporary network to give the school full connectivity whilst the team installed the permanent upgrade required to support the mobile devices the school were introducing as part of their transformation to meet the Trust’s operational standards.