Case Study: Bergen Catholic High School achieves scalable bandwidth and real-time traffic visibility with Barracuda Networks

How Bergen Catholic High School Easily Prioritized and Scaled Bandwidth Using Barracuda Solutions

Bergen Catholic High School, a 725‑student, single‑building Roman Catholic school in Oradell, NJ, was expanding its 1:2 MacBook/iPad program and planning full device rollout but hit infrastructure limits. Their Cisco ASA firewall capped bandwidth at 1 Gbps, IronPort filtering was hard to manage and lacked visibility into student browsing, and a SaaS test app (ExamSoft) once crashed the network — creating an urgent need for a more scalable, manageable solution.

Bergen deployed Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Barracuda Web Security Gateway to enable dynamic uplink balancing, prioritize app traffic (Google, Office 365, Blackboard, ExamSoft), and scale to dual 2 Gbps links. The result: quick, low‑risk installation, real‑time dashboards and reporting that exposed browsing behavior, reliable higher bandwidth without frequent hardware upgrades, and responsive support from Barracuda.

Bergen Catholic High School

Albert Spiegel

Laptop Program Coordinator