Shawfield Primary School is a small, friendly primary school in Ash, in Surrey Heath, Surrey and has 230 pupils and teaching staff. At Shawfield they strive to ensure that all the pupils reflect their motto ‘We Shine’.
Key objectives
- Cost-effective WiFi solution
- To take full advantage of the capabilities of the laptops, tablets and hand held devices the school has invested in
The Situation
Shawfield prides itself on its teaching facilities and its WiFi provision is no different. Over the past years, more WiFi teaching aids have been added to the network and the existing Netgear has struggled to cope with the increased demand placed upon it, not allowing staff and pupils to take full advantage of the expensive client devices the school has invested in.
The Benefits
- Affordable and Enterprise level WiFi solution
- Easy installation and set up
- Concise analytics
- Superior signal strength
- Free Lifetime Warranty*
- Free Fimware upgrades for Life
- Free Technical Support
The Solution
With school budgets falling, a robust cost effective WiFi solution was required with all the benefits of an Enterprise solution but at a budget the school could afford, but importantly have no ongoing costs.
The school investigated other WiFi solutions, and the EnGenius was selected for a Free trial period being implemented in various parts of the school to see how it performed.
The IT Technician Brian Hooper said that “this is a very easy solution to use and its intuitive management provides good analytics of the users across the site”.
The EnGenius provides a seamless WiFi blanket across the school and its superior signal strength enables coverage for users not only in the playgrounds but the school Nature area where lessons are also held in the summer.
The Installation
An EnGenius EWS5912FP Gigabit PoE controller was installed with 9 x EWS310AP access points as a direct replacement for the Netgear As the IT Technician is part-time, the EnGenius was supplied pre-configured and was implemented simply and easily and was up and running in minutes. The EnGenius comes with a Lifetime Warranty*, Free Fimware upgrades for Life and Free Technical Support.
