"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 "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 CACHEBOX has been online for two weeks but, even in that short space of time, the difference has been dramatic"
Bob Ney, Support Engineer at Esplanade Wireless, USA "Every question, concern and need has been addressed in a timely manner"
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Nueces bridges bandwidth Canyon

October 30, 2014
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ApplianSys announced today that Nueces Canyon Consolidated Independent School District (ISD) in Texas has purchased a CACHEBOX solution to ease bandwidth congestion from educational downloads and software updates.

Nueces Canyon ISD shares a 40 Mbps link among 3 schools with up to 180 users browsing the internet at any point. It runs a 1:1 student-to-device scheme whereby teachers upload learning content to a website for students to access using Android-based ‘LearnPads’.

According to CACHEBOX Sales Executive Ross Parker: “The district’s connection would become saturated whenever teachers uploaded a new assignment to the LearnPad site because many students would try to download it simultaneously. In addition to the district’s website, students needed to be able to access other online content and education websites like BrainPOP and Mathletes. The internet connection would also slow down whenever new versions of Android OS were released and automatically applied to devices. “

Nueces Canyon previously used a content filter with some caching capability which saved some bandwidth. However, when its provider introduced an additional fee to use the caching features, the ISD decided to purchase a dedicated, high performance web caching appliance instead.

Louis Webb, Network Manager at Nueces Canyon, says: “I was doing some research about caches and came across ApplianSys and CACHEBOX in almost every forum that I went on. I saw the product’s benefits in a demo presentation, asked for a quote and got CACHEBOX210 before the start of the new academic year.”

Louis is delighted with the outcome: “CACHEBOX has met and surpassed my expectations! It just sits there and does its job – that’s exactly what I was looking for in an appliance. It’s far better than anything I’ve used in the past. The savings we are making on software updates and the 1:1 scheme are phenomenal: I’m getting a minimum of 40% average bandwidth savings per day.

“ApplianSys has a great product that is doing a great job. I would recommend CACHEBOX to any school, especially ones with a 1:1 deployment”

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Nueces Canyon Consolidated ISD serves the small rural communities of Barksdale and Camp Wood, in West Texas, halfway between San Antonio and the Mexican border. Its Elementary, Junior High and High Schools serve around 300 students in total.