Case Study: Dunamare Education Group achieves campus-wide reliable Wi‑Fi and 20% telecom cost savings with Riverbed Xirrus

Dutch School District Enriches Learning and Lowers Telecommunications Costs by Providing Wi-Fi in all Indoor Areas

Dunamare Education Group, a northern Netherlands district with 24 schools and about 13,800 secondary students, faced deteriorating Wi‑Fi performance as bring‑your‑own‑device (BYOD) usage and high‑density social and streaming traffic grew. Their original network, deployed in 2010, began showing slowdowns and errors that interfered with teaching, so the district sought a reliable, school‑grade Wi‑Fi solution that could handle heavy, always‑connected student usage.

Dunamare deployed a Xirrus Wi‑Fi system—classroom arrays plus multi‑radio units for large spaces—managed centrally to switch radios between 2.4GHz and 5GHz, monitor issues, and tune capacity with a click. The result: fast, dependable campus‑wide indoor connectivity that enabled flipped and personalized learning, let administrators work anywhere, reduced local calling costs by 20% using Skype for Business, supports thousands of school and personal devices, and can be upgraded or tuned to protect bandwidth for learning applications.

Dunamare Education Group

Bastiaan Groeneveld

Head of IT