Just How Wireless Is Your School District?

The Charles County School District in Maryland has universal wireless access with a network that can carry both data and voice. The system has a substantial amount of bandwidth—enough for transmitting voice, data, and video without slowdowns or other usage problems. Many of the textbooks used have been digitized, teachers have wireless laptops, and there are over 4000 Voice Over the Internet Protocol (VoiP) phones and approximately 650 wireless phones. To keep all this safe, district officials say that they've added Cisco security to each laptop. So what's the school district looking to do next—wide-area wireless. With that, Charles County wireless will be available between all the facilities in the district. According to an article in School CIO, the project cost about $6 million.