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Caldwell County Government serves over 38,000 local area residents from the county seat in Lockhart, TX. Backing up their large volume of data from digitised public records forced the county to upgrade its entire network infrastructure to Gigabit so that data could be consolidated and backed up more quickly, providing better manageability to its office network.

The Royal Grammar School, Worcester is one of the leading independent coeducational day schools in the West Midlands. RGS Senior School has approximately 800 pupils aged 11-18, including a Sixth Form of 240. There are a further 450 pupils aged 2-11 in the two RGS Preparatory Schools, RGS The Grange (two miles north of Worcester City Centre in the village of Claines), and RGS Springfield (a two-minute walk from the Senior School in Britannia Square).

Pana School District in Pana, Illinois needed to replace a dated 10/100 Mbps network with a unified, centrally managed virtual WAN and LAN infrastructure with 802.11n wireless and a VoIP phone system. The new installation would need to function across 11 miles of campus geography and support 1500 students with smartboards and high-speed multimedia access.

Horse owners from the Kriftel Riding and Driving Club keep watch over their beloved horses via Video Surveillance from D-Link.

Singularity University is not a traditional educational institute: it offers both postgraduate scholarships for young researchers and innovators from all corners of the world and also works with large companies (including Google, Genentech, etc.) to provide a platform for discussing the technological trends unfolding across the globe and their expected consequences.

D-Link provided step by step assistance from assessing Softcat’s requirements and evaluating different camera and storage options, through to the installation and fine tuning of camera locations.

An outstanding school serving children from deprived backgrounds, Holdbrook Primary School’s use of IT to enrich the learning experience and aid the assessment of pupils is seen as an essential part of its quality teaching provision. However, with a wireless network stretched to capacity, teachers were struggling to get a whole class on the network at the same time. So while undergoing a server upgrade, the school took the opportunity to implement a new wireless network switch and access points from D-Link.

Building on an initial successful installation, King Edward VI College Stourbridge wanted to expand its wireless coverage to its entire college campus to provide access to 1,500 students and staff. Computerworld Business Solutions, working closely with the college IT team and D-Link, completed detailed site surveys to ensure full coverage to meet with the demands of users in different locations, and implemented the solution in a short timeframe with minimal disruption.

When Carterhatch Junior School decided to move its IT provision from static, wired Windows-based PCs to wireless mobile devices including iPads and iPod touches the set-up of a functional wireless network was an essential prerequisite.

D-Link provides high end network cameras that are professional, cost-effective and reliable and the support is always excellent. There are competitors offering alternative products but they do not have as many features or the broad range that D-Link provides.