User Guide

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Despite being equipped with iPads, teachers and students alike were not making use of
them. The reason for this was because of the slow network access speeds. Apps would
not download and course contents were inaccessible. Often, having more than a couple
students connected to the same Wi-Fi access point was enough to bring it to its knees.
Colégio Next needed a unique solution, so they contacted Peplink.
Requirements
- Solve network congestion problem caused by 600 students over rural Internet
connections
- Wi-Fi that can handle 50+ users per classroom
- An affordable network infrastructure that can provide simultaneous access to
media-rich educational content
Solution
- Peplink MediaFast
- Multi-WAN Content-caching router, tailor-made for Education networking.
- AP One 300M
- Enterprise grade AP, 5GHz Wi-Fi, up to 60 concurrent users.
Benefits
- Instant, simultaneous access to media-rich educational content for 500+ iPads
- Wi-Fi connection stability for 50+ users per classroom, not achievable by other
tested equipment
- Teachers, students and guests can be assigned access priority to available
bandwidth, further preventing congestion
- iOS updates (often 2GB size) no longer congest the network as they are
downloaded only once, cached on the MediaFast and then distributed to all iOS
devices
- AP Controller makes MAC Address Filtering easy. Students are assigned to
designated APs by their devices' MAC Address in order to prevent saturating any
single AP.
- Flawless iPad AirPlay mirroring at all times
- iPads are used all day, reaching their full potential with a fast and stable network
all the time
- Students are far more engaged and teachers rely on their iPads all day