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Case Study

Priory School

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  • Sector

    Education

  • Solution

    Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

  • Platform

    Cisco, WatchGuard

Founded in 1939, The Priory School is a secondary school with academy status in the market town of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. The school was opened in September 1939 and became a Business and Enterprise College in 2003, with the addition of Applied GCSE courses to the curriculum. The Priory was formerly a girls' grammar school, but has since become a mixed non-selective school.

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Challenge

SysGroup were invited to look at Priory School’s infrastructure as their previous wired and wireless network was unreliable and not able to cope with modern demands. The school had a D-Link Network with poor structure and little management capability.

Solution

After a complete survey of the existing network, SysGroup proposed a solution including:

  • A new network to allow for greater control and cope with user demands
  • Fully-designed VLAN and IP Schema
  • Migration plan which involved installing a Cisco 4 X 3750X stack layer 3 core connecter to the server infrastructure
  • Cisco 3750X core connecting fibre to 17 Cisco Meraki switches and 50 Cisco Meraki access points
  • 5 series WatchGuard firewall for web security
  • IPS/AV/APT Blocker

Result

The school now has:

  • A robust, secure infrastructure to cope with wireless demands
  • Full availability during evenings and holiday periods
  • Entire system monitored securely from SysGroup's Telford data centres

Testimonial

With SysGroup, I ended up with a complete plan and roadmap. I’d recommend SysGroup as they understand, listen and care about what they do passionately. I also found them really professional.

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