Case Study: Burnley College achieves 99.8% network uptime and campus-wide Wi-Fi reliability with Extreme Networks

Burnley College Builds First-Rate Student Experience on First-Class Network

Burnley College, a further education institution serving about 9,000 students, needed to replace legacy infrastructure, eliminate wireless dead spots, and gain deeper troubleshooting and analytics to support new classroom technologies, labs and a competitive esports program. In partnership with Extreme Networks (and partner NetProtocol), the college deployed Extreme Wireless Access, Extreme Wired Access and ExtremeCloud IQ to modernize connectivity and management across campus.

Extreme Networks delivered a wired and wireless refresh plus ExtremeCloud IQ for centralized visibility and management, with NetProtocol providing site surveys to remove dead zones. The upgrade delivered measurable results: record uptime of 99.8%, a significant drop in trouble tickets, faster issue resolution through granular analytics (client history, signal strength, AP workload), improved VLAN-based security, and a scalable foundation to support new labs, esports facilities and future campus expansion.

Burnley College

Nick Williams

Infrastructure Lead, Network Services