Case Study: Travis Unified School District achieves improved security, faster networks, and easier management with Barracuda Networks' CloudGen Firewalls

Travis Unified School District Keeps its Networks Secure and Running Smoothly with the Barracuda CloudGen Firewalls

Travis Unified School District, a Northern California K–12 district serving about 5,500 students across nine schools (including Travis Air Force Base communities), struggled with an aging port-based firewall that couldn’t stop peer-to-peer apps, unsanctioned streaming, anonymizers and VPNs. Those workarounds caused frequent slowdowns despite ample bandwidth, and daily troubleshooting was slow and CLI-heavy—often taking up to an hour to identify and remediate issues.

The district deployed two Barracuda CloudGen Firewall F900s in a high-availability cluster with Firewall and Application Control enabled, which blocked unsanctioned content, freed up misappropriated bandwidth and significantly improved performance. Administrators gained centralized, GUI-based management (no CLI), fast troubleshooting with Firewall History View, better traffic visibility and shaping, and resilient VPN access for staff—delivering a more secure, responsive and easier-to-manage network.

Travis Unified School District

Fabio Zampieri

Coordinator, Technology Services