Is your ICT team wasting hours managing users' access to your network?
There are only so many hours in a day at your school or college, managing high volume access and authentications across your network at all levels of authorisation can take time to work through, especially when this is compunded by users' raising technical queries and losing their log-in details.
Ruckus Cloudpath Enrollment System (ES) software is a security and policy management platform that enables your ICT department to easily and definitively manage network enrolment through Pre-boarding (remote automated onboarding) and security access for users secured wired and wireless devices.
Blackpool and the Fylde College have recently purchased the Ruckus CloudPath system and have been impressed by the immediate effect in terms of much reduced admin and technical requests by users which has allowed the ICT team to work on the many other high priority tasks, making the department more efficient and cost effective.
Testimonial from Blackpool and the Fylde College:
“This support means that users only come to IT if there’s a serious problem. That has spread the load of assisting people with connecting to the network and has allowed our 20-person ICT staff to focus more on other projects”
Nick Wright, Blackpool and the Fylde College
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B&FC has undertaken a three-year program of infrastructure upgrades intended to improve the user experience. Working with Cloudpath ES is part of that initiative, along with upgrading wireless controllers, core switches and access points. “We also want to improve users’ experience in terms of the device in their hands,” says Wright. “We found we can do that much more cost-effectively with Chromebooks than with PCs, so we’ve purchased many of them and, with Ruckus support, have built a separate network for them. Ruckus shared best practices on how to design and configure the network and deploy certificates for the Chromebooks. They’ve taken off like a storm. We wouldn’t have gotten where we are with this initiative without Ruckus technical support.” According to Wright, “Cloudpath wireless connectivity is also central to the college’s initiative to provide an integrated experience for users. A reliable, robust wireless system with good authentication is critical to everything we’re doing at the moment.”
If you would like more information on how Ruckus Cloudpath can revolutionise the management of your school or college network userbase, please call our team at P&C Communications on 01704 542 420, or email us here
