l CASE STUDY l
Customer Profile
This Board of Education (BOE) administers the school system for a Canadian city supporting
more than 100,000 students, placing a high value on personalized learning for its students
across grades kindergarten through 12. State-of-the-art facilities are top among its priorities,
with several new and updated schools coming on line since 2016 and into the upcoming
school year.
In supervising the city school system, the BOE oversees academic planning and curriculum
delivery, standardized testing and design for certain grade levels, and facilities management,
as well as delivering necessary Information Technology (IT) services to support students,
administrators, and educators.
The BOE charter empowers the organization to make its own decisions regarding IT solutions
deployed in city schools. In supporting the school system, IT operations include two data centers
and a headquarters facility.
Business Challenge
Ongoing citywide population spikes prompted a corresponding increase in new students
arriving in the school system. In addressing those increases and ongoing education needs, the
BOE managed the introduction of a cluster of new schools across the city in early-2017 and is
overseeing construction of a new high school facility scheduled to open in 2018.
For the BOE's IT teams, those new schools translate to additional facilities and resources to
support, with increased network demand and traffic being sent across more network links to the
BOE's data centers.
OVERVIEW
Business Challenge
• The addition of new City schools increased
network traffic and links to IT Data Centers,
potentially resulting in oversubscribed links
• Board of Education (BOE) IT team identified
a need for an updated network capacity
management solution
• Budget considerations play a part in
introducing new technologies
NETSCOUT Solution
• nGenius
®
3900 Series Packet Flow Switch
• nGeniusONE
®
and InfiniStream
®
Service
Assurance Technology
Business Value
• NETSCOUT's trusted business partnership
with Network Operations team drives
collaborative network traffic aggregation
solution design
• Lower-cost NETSCOUT
®
solution securely
manages network traffic, preserves school
budget, and helps ensure a consistent
learning experience
• Expanded NETSCOUT solution jointly shared
by Network Operations and Security teams
for their respective IT efforts
Canadian Board of Education IT
Teams Collaborate to Improve
Network Security and Performance
with NETSCOUT Solution
nGenius Packet Flow Switch Enables City to Securely
Manage Network Traffic from New Schools
E N T E R P R I S E
