"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 "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 "With CACHEBOX, PollPad customers can install the app quickly and we can download the voter database much faster. It is a huge improvement!"
Mitch Milleville, Know Ink, USA "We had low bandwidth and a growing number of devices all requesting similar data. CACHEBOX was the perfect solution for our small rural school."
David Dobbins, Cascade School District 3, USA

‘Protex’ protects Essex schools

October 23, 2008
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ApplianSys, today announced Essex County Council is rolling out Protex on CACHEBOX to deliver a safer web experience in schools throughout the region.

With many more students using Internet based resources as part of lessons, the ICT team at Essex needed a reliable solution to protect students from inappropriate web content. They also wanted a simple, cost effective caching appliance to improve bandwidth utilisation.

Essex chose Protex, a content filtering solution designed for teachers, combined with the ApplianSys CACHEBOX200 because of favourable reports from other school authorities in the East of England. Protex has been developed by the East of England Broadband Network (E2BN) and ApplianSys.

“Many schools still struggle to deliver safe, reliable web access. Whether you’re in London, LA or Lagos, our experience with schools around the world shows students always find something to fill up bandwidth, and what they see isn’t always good for them,” says Steven Tee, CACHEBOX Product Manager. “Web caching in conjunction with intelligent filtering is still the most effective way to free up precious bandwidth and limit students exposure to unsuitable materials on the web.”

Essex County Council (www.essex.gov.uk) delivers services to over 1.3m residents in the South East of England. With a 2006/07 Council budget of £1.9 billion it provides a wide range of services including: Education, Social Care, Highways and Transportation, Waste Disposal and Libraries to the county.