Case Study
Chase School
INDUSTRY - Education
- K-12 private day school in Waterbury, CT
- Established in 1865
- Approximately 500 students
- Highly progressive in their use of technology within the learning process
Challenge
As part of a campus renovation and upgrade that included construction of a new high school facility, Chase wanted to deploy a wide range of technologies to improve the student experience: campus- wide connectivity and wireless, high bandwidth multimedia delivery such as smart-boards, IP security and much more. The variety of low-voltage services involved in this upgrade also presented a project management challenge for Chase’s small IT team.
Additionally, in order to achieve seamless integration of these technologies and meet their expected 20 year lifecycle, they specified a minimum 10Gb/s solution.
Solution
Working closely with Siemon GPS, Chase explored category 6A systems in both shielded and unshielded configurations before selecting Siemon’s fully-shielded category 7A TERA system. The selection was based both on TERA’s industry-best 10+Gb/s performance and flexibility.
In addition to structured cabling product and network design support, Siemon GPS also offered a managed services approach to the network and related low-voltage applications. This service could provide the Chase team with a single point of contact for the layer 1 deployment, simplifying a major managment task.
Results
The performance headroom of the TERA cabling plant, along with an upgrade of the switching infrastructure, had an immediate impact at Chase. Between TERA’s performance and cable sharing flexibility, it allows new applications to be quickly deployed quickly and without concerns for network capacity.
With the support of Siemon GPS, the network’s enhanced capabilities extended beyond the traditional communication services, providing better control and management of low-voltage applications such as surveillance and access control.
GPS's managed services approach also ensured that the project went smoothly, coordinating design assistance, labor and logistics across a range of low-voltage deployments.
