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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 "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 "CACHEBOX was the best choice for us - pricing was very competitive, the range presented different price/performance options..."
Harare International School "Having CACHEBOX in the network makes it so much better and the internet much faster"
Eric Esteban, Director, Gurnee School District 56, USA

CACHEBOX & PROTEX get into Cambridge

June 29, 2007
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ApplianSys today announced that Cambridgeshire Local Education Authority (LEA) have selected Protex filtering and CACHEBOX cache server appliances to support their web infrastructure and usage within a variety of educational sites in the county. The solution is supported by Cable & Wireless who have worked closely with E2BN (the Regional Broadband consortium for the East of England) on the Protex solution and with ApplianSys on the Web cache appliances going into their larger colleges and secondary schools.

“We have been working with Cable & Wireless and E2BN for several years delivering caching services and Protex content filtering to develop and enhance the broadband infrastructure of Education in the UK. The Cambridgeshire LEA solution used a number of our CACHEBOX200 web caches together with full support for the Protex Web Filtering solution. It was purchased under the Goods & Services Framework Agreement with the UK Government’s Department of Education and Skills. This delivered best value procurement combined with a top quality web access solution designed specifically for education,” said Mike Clark, CEO ApplianSys.

The Cambridgeshire Local Education Authority (www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk) provides education and skills training within the county of Cambridgshire supporting 2,400 teachers who teach over 77,000 children in 250 schools. Their client architecture and web content provision has to enable access and control at an individual level to all these children, their teachers and support staff.

The East of England Broadband Network (E2BN – www.e2bn.net) is one of 10 Regional Broadband Consortia (RBCs) set up by the Government to help raise standards in teaching and learning by the use of broadband technology. Each RBC is formed from a group of Local Authorities (LAs) who work together with the aim of achieving better provision, value for money and performance for schools than could be achieved individually. Further details can be obtained at (E2BNs Local Authorities are Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Luton, Milton Keynes, Norfolk, Peterborough, Southend On Sea, Suffolk, and Thurrock. These LAs have 2822 schools in the most rural areas of the UK. Their regions have the highest concentration of market towns below 10,000 and very poor conventional communications so the delivery of reliable and consistent Broadband is of paramount importance both to education and the improvement of the local economy. One of E2BNs core services is content filtering using the Protex Service and Caching from ApplianSys.

Cable & Wireless Europe, Asia and US (www.cw.com) is one of the world’s leading international communications organisations, providing enterprise and carrier solutions to the largest users of telecom and broadband services around the world. The E2BN solution is a key part of their Public Sector offering in Europe.