Case Study: Manhattan School of Music achieves smoother, faster campus network performance with Exinda

Exinda Helps Manhattan School of Music Find Harmony in its Network

Manhattan School of Music, a private conservatory on New York’s Upper West Side serving about 800 students and 275 faculty, was facing chronic network congestion from bandwidth‑intensive peer‑to‑peer sharing and other “hog” applications. Slow web access, poor voice/video quality and frustrated users made it clear that simply buying more bandwidth wouldn’t solve the root problem and their legacy PacketShaper solution couldn’t scale affordably.

The school deployed an Exinda 6700 appliance to gain granular visibility and enforce bandwidth policies: throttling P2P, limiting heavy users, and prioritizing real‑time and web traffic across two separate networks. The result was faster, more responsive applications, far fewer complaints, the ability to defer costly bandwidth upgrades, and a scalable, cost‑effective solution with clear ROI.

Manhattan School of Music

Jonathan B. Keeley

Network Engineer, Manhattan School of Music