Case Study: Durham Catholic District School Board achieves simplified network management and enhanced security with Extreme Networks

Powering a Better Education Experience at Durham Catholic with Extreme Fabric

Durham Catholic, serving 23,000 students across 52 locations with roughly 15,000 concurrent devices and a three-person IT team, needed a more flexible, secure network after their aging, telco-controlled infrastructure went out of warranty and could no longer support multimedia labs, growing wireless demand, or stricter data-protection requirements. They selected Extreme Networks, deploying Fabric Connect and ExtremeCloud IQ to give the district internal control, improved performance, and stronger security.

Extreme Networks’ Fabric and ExtremeCloud IQ simplified and centralized management so Durham Catholic’s small team could manage 50+ sites from a single view, dramatically reducing time spent on network tasks and enabling staff to focus on other priorities. The solution increased security and compliance, provided reliable next-business-day hardware replacement and training support, and—per the district—allowed administrators to be confidently managing the large network within about a month.

Durham Catholic

Chris Skelton

Supervisor, Network and Cyber Security