More bang for your E-rate buck

E-rate has helped US schools afford high speed internet connectivity. But this doesn’t always mean high speed access for students and teachers. Many schools still suffer latency and rural areas often can’t get high speed connections even with E-rate support.

To address this, the FCC has approved caching servers for E-rate funding under Category 2 – Internal Connections.

Now, with very little investment, all E-rate eligible schools and libraries can dramatically improve browsing speeds by storing and serving web content – web pages, videos and documents – locally.

Using a caching solution has advantages for both students and teachers:

• No more wasted class time waiting for files to load
• More capacity to use large files like video and software updates
• Supports the growing numbers of devices from 1:1 / BYOD schemes
• Deals with sharp bursts in traffic volume, like at the start of a lesson
• Schools can keep up with advances in teaching, like independent learning and ‘flipped classrooms’ that let students learn at their own pace using interactive resources

With CACHEBOX you spend your technology budget wisely and get more bang for your E-rate buck:

• Developed with schools, for schools, it’s the specialist cache appliance for education
• Pedigree in schools with reference customers around the world including hundreds in the US
• It supports education content repositories like Pearson’s Equella, Compass Learning and Smarty Ants
• Schools focussed features like pre-caching help teachers prepare online content before lessons
• As a dedicated cache the entire solution is eligible for E-rate funding, whereas multi-function solutions like bandwidth optimisers that only feature some caching are only part-funded
• It costs of fraction of other caching appliances – at the highest level of eRate discount, you could get a CACHEBOX for as little as $350

CACHEBOX already helps teachers across America cope with increasing demand for bandwidth-intensive content in the classroom.

Find out more about why CACHEBOX is the best choice for caching in education here or contact us now to arrange a demonstration.