Case Study: St. Joseph’s Academy achieves a 600% increase in bandwidth with Ecessa PowerLink

St. Joseph’s Academy Gets 600% Increase in Bandwidth

St. Joseph’s Academy, a private all‑girls high school with a one‑to‑one laptop program for 550 students, faced a sixfold surge in bandwidth demand as hosted services (Blackbaud, Symphony, Google Apps), cloud storage and classroom streaming became routine. To meet that growth, the school worked with Ecessa and its PowerLink® product after expanding from one fiber and two cable links to three broadband cable links and a much larger fiber connection.

Ecessa upgraded the school’s existing unit to combine all links into one active network behind a single firewall, leveraging standby cable links and providing WAN link load balancing, automatic failover, authoritative DNS and port forwarding. The Ecessa solution delivered a 600% increase in available bandwidth, higher performance and uptime for online apps and streaming, seamless rerouting during outages, and improved disaster recovery and control for inbound/outbound connectivity.

St. Joseph’s Academy

Travis Rogers

Director of Technology