Case Study: Orange County Public Schools achieves rapid 4-hour school network deployment with Cisco Meraki

Orange County Public Schools can transition a school off of their legacy equipment and onto their new Meraki network in four hours

Orange County Public Schools, the 9th largest school district in the United States with about 208,000 students across 200 schools, needed to replace its legacy network infrastructure while keeping classrooms online and supporting its 1:1 device program. The district faced a large-scale rollout that initially seemed like it would take years to complete, along with the challenge of deploying school networks quickly and without disrupting learning.

Cisco Meraki implemented an MR access point and MS switch network for Orange County Public Schools, enabling school-by-school cutovers in as little as four hours. The deployment is on pace to finish in under two years, with three schools transitioning each week, while student devices, phones, and security systems continue to work reliably; the Meraki dashboard has also simplified network management for the IT team.

Orange County Public Schools