Cablevision’s Lightpath is expanding its work with Ramsey School District in New Jersey, which has been a customer for 15 years. The school district was able to recently double its Internet bandwidth while achieving a 10 times increase in private fiber connection speeds between key locations and savings of thousands annually, according to Lightpath.
Ramsey is using Lightpath’s Private Fiber Service to establish multiple 10G connections between key district locations, including the middle and high school, with 1G connections feeding each of the elementary schools. This configuration allows Ramsey to host all network equipment at the high school, which is said to simplify ongoing management and support.
“While a 1G Internet connection serves our needs today, we’ll likely have to double or triple that in just the next couple of years,” Ryan Kenny, director for Ramsey School Districts technology department, says.
The district has standardized on Google Apps for Education, which is hosted in the cloud and reportedly requires a strong, reliable bandwidth connection. It also recently deployed more than 2,000 iPads to students and teachers. Ramsey also needed to support other needs, including WiFi access to support 1-to-1 and BYOD programs, as well as state requirements, including for online-based PARCC testing.
Lightpath serves schools in more than two-thirds of the 132 school districts within the company’s New Jersey footprint.