"ApplianSys is the only vendor that takes the time to look at our appliances for us, and it really goes a long way."
Mike Caruso, Orland Park Consolidated High School District 230, USA "We rolled out 1200 Chromebooks to classrooms and CACHEBOX means that we haven't needed to increase our bandwidth."
Rodney Leer, Brenham Independent School District, USA "Our bandwidth problems have been practically eliminated. Monitoring & customization is a snap with the web interface."
Desert Academy, Santa Fe, USA "We purchased CACHEBOX to improve speeds, it really is set and forget"
Richie Williams, IT Manager, Orchard Farm School District, USA "We have a 70 Mbps connection and CACHEBOX is showing us savings of 11.74 Mbps."
Jim Bingham, Franklin Pierce University

CACHEBOX delivers secure web in US prisons

March 21, 2023
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ApplianSys is pleased to announce that the US Federal Bureau of Prisons has deployed four CACHEBOX devices as part of a pilot scheme designed to improve access to online training content for prisoners.

When the Bureau decided to introduce online learning for its inmates, it needed a practical way of protecting them from harmful web content. That is why the nationwide organisation only allows offenders to access a very narrow subset of the overall internet – it hosts this curated content on its own AWS (Amazon Web Services) server. However, as the Bureau is charged every time someone accesses the content, the costs soon began to mount up By storing content locally as it is requested and serving repeat requests directly from the cache at LAN speed, it completely avoids the internet and saves the Bureau money.

The US Federal Bureau of Prisons has initially purchased and deployed three CACHEBOX130 devices along with a CACHEBOXCMC for centralised management. By deploying central management now, the Bureau will be able to extend its caching solution to all 190 facilities across the country without a technician visiting each site.

In addition to storing content as it is requested, CACHEBOX’s Media Library gives each prison a way to safely store a library of pre-approved, educational video files. And because these files are served locally, they are not dependent on bandwidth at all – they will work regardless of any other demands on the internet connection.

“Prisons have a dual responsibility to safeguard inmates from harmful content and give them opportunities for rehabilitation”, explains Sales Director Magdalena Jovanovic. “Caching makes online learning content faster and more reliable. Coupled with rigorous user-access controls and content-filtering features, CACHEBOX prevents inmates from accessing harmful content whilst saving the Bureau money every day”.

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The US Federal Bureau of Prisons is responsible for the custody and care of federal offenders. It relies heavily on its computer network to support critical service infrastructure and processes, including organising and filling in inmate records, visiting schedules, managing staff resources and monitoring the facilities’ security systems.