For a while now, everyone has been trying to keep their budgets tight and with money tending to go on exploring or implementing potential money-saving solutions such as virtualisation, unified comms, VoIP and cloud computing, the networking infrastructure that has to carry all these new solutions and services has been somewhat neglected.

For many businesses in the education sector it now makes sense to look at making the leap from current 802.11a/g wireless technologies to the latest 802.11n standard or from 100Mbps (or even 10Mbps) Ethernet to 10 gigabit on the backbone and gigabit to the desktop.
Schools and colleges are likely to benefit from both upgrades to WiFi and to core networking bandwidth: the former to provide extended range, performance and reliability across the school or campus, or in selected areas where consistent wireless access is particularly important; the latter to deliver the higher performance needed to support multimedia-rich traffic and to enable adoption of cost-saving technologies such as VoIP and more robust remote backup and DR solutions.

These technologies will enable users to get the best out of web access and all IP-based services available to them. Although the solutions cost a little more, they deliver real performance and reliability benefits, so any upgrade will deliver significant and measurable benefits and dependable return on investment.

Equally, the pervasive use of laptop computers and mobile devices in academic institutions has created a unique opportunity to dramatically improve the quality of teaching and learning. The integration of new interactive tools such as blogs, YouTube and other useful sites has created new teaching paradigms that expand the learning opportunities to all students.

In order to enhance teaching and learning quality, schools and universities need to provide better services and equipment to students, teachers, researchers and administrative staff. In practice, one of the ways to enhance the competitiveness of the educational environment is to incorporate complete internet connectivity throughout the campus; then the demand for unlimited learning resources is satisfied through both wired and wireless deployments for every laptop or smartphone to easily access the resources wherever they are.

Although internet learning brings considerable opportunities, there is still undesirable Web content such as pornography, gambling, drugs, cyber-bullying and other offensive material that could easily be accessed by students, causing them to be exposed to inappropriate and sometimes harmful content. The school must not only control access but also protect students from these threats. To address the demand, ZyXEL’s Education Solution offers a comprehensive product portfolio featuring wired networks with gigabyte backbone and Power over Ethernet (PoE) switching, along with wireless connectivity utilising an 802.11a/b/g/n system.

The solution has been designed for internet connectivity and security appliance for better management and protection. All these benefits will enable a safer and top of the range learning environment.

With high demands from government initiatives and increasingly savvy pupils, the need for schools and colleges to have a strong secure network is absolutely critical for success.

With proven success in the education sector, ZyXEL understands the market and can deliver the right products and support. Offering the complete end-to-end network solution ZyXEL can work with you to provide secure, wireless internet access, multibuilding network and remote access.

ZyXEL’s solution for educational institutes offers a complete product portfolio from a single vendor to build and maintain convenient, efficient academic network infrastructures. The solution offers not only easy-to-use WLANs that leverage the existing infrastructure to provide superior scalability and investment protection, but also Ethernet switches with outstanding performance, availability and resilience to ensure that the network resources are always available to minimise network downtime.

In addition, the robust network security features, such as behaviour control and malware protection, also guarantee regulation compliance and secure learning environments for all users.

Benefits to schools:
Protection for students; protection of infrastructure and staff; remote access; segmentation of networks; 'Bring your own device' mobility; social networking control; hacker protection; eLearning connectivity; bandwidth to run several applications; liability issues reduction; scalable solutions; firmware upgrades and warranty.

Who is eligible:

• Accredited Colleges and Universities
• Public and private primary and secondary schools
• School Districts
• School Boards
• University Hospitals
• Libraries
• Public Sector Organisations
• N on-profit Organisations
• Educational Institutions
• (Language Schools, etc)
• Dormitories and School related Institutions
• The right solution for every potential scenario

Whether you are a Primary School with under 250 staff and pupils, or a Language School, Library or College with over 1000 users, ZyXEL has the right solution for you.

ZyXEL offers an attractive discount of up to 12% and local complimentary technical support to Education Institutions.

For more information
Please contact ZyXEL on 0118 912 700 or email us on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it