Alaska School Deploys Passive Optical LAN

THE Journal: Grace Christian School, a K-12 school in Anchorage, AK, has upgraded to a passive optical local area network (LAN) to provide increased bandwidth and reliable connectivity for the school's 60 teachers and 600 students.

Over the past three years, the school has purchased $100,000 worth of technology, including Smart Boards, interactive projectors and Apple TVs. However, teachers were reluctant to use the technology in their classrooms because the school's network infrastructure used category 5/5e (CAT5) copper cabling, which resulted in lack of bandwidth, signal degradation and dropped connections. The school wanted to upgrade its infrastructure to support the growing number of networked devices throughout its large campus and also provide parents with access to a campus intranet.

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