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WiFi For Education
Supporting anytime, anywhere learning
Lansafe provide wireless connectivity for educational institutions, this includes all aspects of integration with current legacy systems or to a whole upgrade of existing hardware. Schools requiring solutions for complete coverage, connections that don’t drop and fit within budget constraints can look to Lansafe. Lansafe have been providing the education sector with Wi-Fi since the early adoption of 802.11g. With a dedicated educational team and pricing plans, plus the experience in working with schools across the UK, they can be considered the knowledgeable Wi-Fi installers for a school network.
Have you come across these challenges?
- Dead spots with no coverage
- Slow speeds with low capacity
- Poor security with visibility of teachers network to students
- Connections and packages that drop
- Unable to connect to the Wi-Fi network
- Constrained budgets to update the network
- No guest access
Benefits of Lansafe Educational Wi-Fi
- Ease of management – Take control of managing your own wireless network, or take a full management support package from Lansafe
- Education pricing – Very strong connections with leading wireless manufacturers.
- UK based support – Unparalleled support for wireless networks, from helpdesk support to same day failed hardware replacement
- Security – Networks are implemented with the latest security standards to maximise network security
- Reliable coverage – Guaranteed 100% coverage ensuring users always have the ability to connect anywhere within the zones
- Leading hardware – Providing technology from leading manufactures provides reliable equipment
Features of Lansafe Education Wi-Fi
- Consistent, reliable connectivity no other Wi-Fi system can touch
- Two to four times the coverage using fewer APs than competing solutions
- Low packet loss and high performance
- A safer environment with less interference, through “eco-friendly” adaptive signal technology1
- System self-healing capabilities1
- The lowest cost of ownership
- Support for standard 802.1x, WPA (PSK) and WPA-2 (AES) security, plus automatic wireless setting and encryption key security
- Guest access for visitors
- High capacity network capable of delivering all the data needed for a fast, sufficient network
- 1 When supplied with Ruckus
The next steps to having a Lansafe Education Wi-Fi solution
- Provide site plans/floor plans to receive a proposed system design and budgetary no-obligation quote
- Arrange for a site survey to receive a guaranteed coverage system design
- Book a Wi-Fi installations date supplied by our in-house certified engineers
- Confirmation site survey to ensure 100% coverage, apply optimisations and network topology
- Supported with a UK based team capable of providing next business day onsite replacement
- Optional on-site training for network staff
A Typical school configuration would be
Separate Wi-Fi SSID’s (Networks) for teachers, students and visitors
VLAN’s to separate traffic on the LAN side
Integration of security into Microsoft Active Directory so that users have one account for all access
Automatic client laptop configuration via Active Directory GPO (Group Policy Object) for ZERO configuration at the client side!
