Case Study: Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District achieves centralized, unified wired/wireless management and secure BYOD across 47 sites with Extreme Networks

K-12 School Centrally Manages its Campus Network and Implements BYOD

Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District, serving over 17,000 students across 47 sites and roughly 25,000 square miles, needed to simplify deployment and central management of a unified wired/wireless network for a small IT team (26 staff, 7 networking), enable secure BYOD, gain visibility and granular control of devices, and contain ongoing support costs. After evaluating vendors, the district selected Extreme Networks and its OneFabric architecture—using C‑Series and K‑Series switches, OneFabric Control Center, NetSight, Mobile IAM and wireless APs/controllers—to meet these requirements.

Extreme Networks implemented a unified OneFabric solution that centralized management and secured BYOD across the sprawling district. The Extreme Networks deployment lets the seven‑person networking team centrally manage roughly 8,000 computers/servers and the entire wired/wireless infrastructure for 17,000+ students with no staff increase, provides faster, more reliable application access, role‑based device control for student safety, a stable secure network, and reduced ongoing support costs (including lifetime product warranty).

Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District

Justin Michaud

CIO