WALTHAM, Mass.-Orthogon Systems said it has deployed its OS-Gemini and OS-Spectra Ethernet point-to-point bridges at Aurora Public Schools in Colorado. Orthogon said the equipment is designed to increase bandwidth and establish a next generation network to handle future applications such as Voice over Internet Protocol, video and distance learning, connecting 27 schools.
“In order for our students to take advantage of new learning tools, we needed significantly more bandwidth to deploy these advanced voice/video applications,” said Mark Lindstone, chief information officer for Aurora Public Schools. “With our previous system, connections between our elementary schools were slow and expensive to maintain, and carrier-provided options to increase the bandwidth were too expensive over the long-term. We decided to replace our T1 lines with a completely new wireless network and have been extremely impressed with the high performance, ease of installation and reliability of the Orthogon products. In addition, our school system is able to take advantage of 10 times the bandwidth of our previous system.”
“Public school systems have a vital need for low-cost, reliable and flexible computer networks that span the open spaces between buildings,” said Ken DuBuque, vice president of worldwide sales and marketing at Orthogon. “The Aurora Public Schools now have a solution that not only provides a 10-fold increase in their capacity at a lower cost, but provides them with the performance they need-consistently, securely, and without unexpected interruptions. Furthermore, the OS-Gemini and OS-Spectra products will sustain them now and into the future as newer applications come on board or additional schools need to be connected to the network.”
Aurora’s school district is the sixth largest in Colorado with 33,000 students and is located in Denver’s eastern suburbs.
