St James Boys’ School building sits within a picturesque and breathtaking 30-acre site. The Head Teacher, David Boddy, always had the vision of ensuring he had a “State of the Art” wireless network, both within the school buildings and across the external campus, to allow flexible learning and anytime access to the school network and internet services.
The school required a wireless network which would be able to support large numbers of wireless clients (in excess of 30 users in all classrooms), and both data and VoIP traffic across the entire campus, including the 6th form areas, admin areas, various outbuildings, dormitories and external areas of the school. They needed reliability, quality of service and peace of mind that the product and service selected would meet all their requirements.
The security of the system was paramount, but so too was the necessity for the wireless network to provide VoIP support for the new school telephone system users and data access for any other IP devices.
It was important that three wireless networks could be broadcast for the teachers, students, visitors and boarders at the school; namely, a secure wireless network for general data connectivity, a guest network for all visitors to the school which would only allow secure connections to the internet gateway, and also a Voice over IP network which would provide a guaranteed (QoS) service for the roaming VoIP telephone handset users in all areas of the school.
