"Our bandwidth problems have been practically eliminated. Monitoring & customization is a snap with the web interface."
Desert Academy, Santa Fe, 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 "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 "Without CACHEBOX, we'd easily be maxing out our current bandwidth connection"
Dylan Lambert, Technology Director, Alcorn School District, USA "Everything provided was instrumental in our decision-making process and made us believe that DNSBOX was a good fit for our environment"
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Wildcats pounce on CACHEBOX again

April 10, 2018
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ApplianSys is pleased to announce that Durant Community School District in Iowa – home of the Wildcats – has again chosen CACHEBOX to handle huge traffic spikes, despite having boosted its bandwidth by five times.

Durant deployed its first CACHEBOX solution in 2014, when it was struggling to meet demand for internet capacity. The school had an 85Mbps connection shared by over 600 students across three sites. Performance was poor, and slow content was negatively impacting lessons.

With rural bandwidth costs too high for an upgrade, the school deployed CACHEBOX210 instead. This delivered effective capacity of 120Mbps during the school day and up to 682Mbps at peak times.

“CACHEBOX has done a wonderful job for our district,” reported network manager Denise Paustian, “Teachers can cache content in advance of lessons to meet those peaks in demand. And, behind the scenes, we can manage domains to ensure the right resources are accessible”.

The network has grown a lot since 2014. Durant’s 1:1 e-Learning program has taken off, more devices have been added, included iPads and Apple TVs, and students are accessing more video content than ever. Yet despite upgrading to a 500Mbps connection, the school still experiences spikes in demand that can only be handled effectively through web caching.

Therefore, Durant recently renewed its support contract with ApplianSys and upgraded to the larger CACHEBOX230 – which provides more caching capacity for the school’s higher traffic throughput and additional devices.

“CACHEBOX has again proven itself as the right solution for Durant Community Schools, even after its large bandwidth upgrade. The District has confirmed that serving resources locally from cache provides faster, more reliable content delivery than using its internet link each time,” says ApplianSys Sales Specialist, Charles Noirot.

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Durant Community School District is a public school district in Cedar County, Iowa. It consists of a high school, a junior high school and an elementary school, all located in a central building in Durant.