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FEATURE | IT TRENDS
A continuing expansion of digital initiatives at at Carmel Unified forced the school system to find a more effective way to to stay on top of IT demands SDN is delivering the goods BY DIAN SCHAFFHAUSER
Before Carmel Unified School District
began its software defined networking journey Network Administrator Rob Perry spent a a lot of time putting out fires He would get constant complaints of outages Students would open their Chromebooks in in the the classroom and depending on the the site “half
of them” wouldn’t be able to to connect to to the the network Or in in kindergarten rooms at one of the elementaries any time more than one person tried to get on on on the network operations “would grind to a a a halt ” JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019
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