Steamboat Springs School District Enables Digital Learning and PoE with Extreme

Steamboat Springs School District in Colorado is a highly rated public school district of seven schools that serve over 2,600 students in grades PreK through 12. With an already limited class time to go over curriculum, the district needed a new network solution that could not only enable faculty to maximize learning time, but also securely streamline IT operations. Additional focus on keeping students safe and learning spaces secure via a large network of IP surveillance cameras meant the new network solution must have the elasticity and automated performance necessary to support the data generated by surveillance systems.

At Sleeping Giant School, one of the district’s larger K-8 schools, every light on campus runs on ethernet – making it the first and only school in Colorado to have power over ethernet. Thanks to ExtremeSwitching, the school can use network switches to deliver power and data to each light source, improving operational management and cost efficiency. And now, Extreme Fabric supports the district’s network of Verkada IP security cameras with the scale automatically with shifts in the network. The team is no longer constrained by manual configurations and management across the surveillance network is now streamlined and automated.

Aside from enhanced sustainability and operations, Sleeping Giant now has access to a sophisticated network authentication system through Extreme’s hyper-segmentation technology. All student and faculty needs are met with the utmost security and peace of mind, and with Extreme Wireless, end users never have to worry about connecting to the district’s network, regardless of location or time.