Pressure for Bring-Your-Own-Device has been especially strong among K-12 schools. Cost pressures, parent and student demand, new styles of teaching, and on-line testing have all had an important role in driving this need. At the same time, insuring compliance with Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) and the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), as well as maintaining security and preventing inequities without taxing the school’s limited IT resources, present major challenges in implementing BYOD for K-12 schools.
Enterasys Mobile IAM controls access based on user, device, location, application – in fact, it can take into account up to 50 different considerations. So a teacher using video for classroom instruction can get high bandwidth, while students in the cafeteria can be limited in their YouTube viewing. High bandwidth can be provided for VDI use by the staff, while entertainment devices such PlayStation Portable may be barred from the network entirely.
All this is easily managed by the IT staff without additional resources. Mobile IAM uses a single database and provides a single pane of glass for network management including BYOD device management. Teachers and students can be automatically provisioned when they first bring their devices to school. Network usage is simply monitored by user, device, location, and application to insure full compliance with AUP and CIPA.
Enterasys Networks offers leading K-12 network solutions in terms of manageability via a pane of glass, security for BYOD, and integrity through fault-tolerance and life-time warranty.
Read More »
Questions? Have an Enterasys sales representative contact you.
You can also call Sales at +1 (978) 684-1000 or toll free in North America
at (877) 801-7082.
From Classroom to Server Room – Mobility Done Right
As many school districts move to 1:1 computing, they need the ability to deliver networked services to large numbers of computers and tablets without slowing down the network. With Enterasys, school districts can accommodate and manage both district-owned and student-owned devices into these 1:1 computing programs.
K12 school districts are making a strong push to deliver digital citizenship courses online. These courses educate faculty and students on the proper use of the technology, including how to identify credible sources of information, proper use of social media, and online bullying awareness. Districts are then allowing specific devices and application access based on the student’s successful completion of the digital citizenship course. Having access to network traffic utilization data helps verify that district content filters are performing as expected and students are being good stewards of the technology. The Enterasys network forensics can verify proper or improper use of the resources for granting or removing expanded access rights.
With the flexible network control offered by Enterasys, classroom networking can be set up to disallow students’ laptops’ access to the Internet, but allow secure access to the school’s intranet to take an on-line exam. In the same classroom, the teacher’s laptop can be granted access to all district resources as well as the Internet.
Digital textbooks can require high speed video streaming and other high bandwidth resources. With Enterasys, you can configure the network to provide digital textbooks in the classroom with the bandwidth they require, which still limiting or preventing high speed streaming of music or games to students in the cafeteria, for example.
