McAllen Intermediate School District
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McAllen Intermediate School District in Texas serves over 25,000 students and has implemented advanced technology to enhance learning, including a successful BYOD policy. The adoption of Cisco solutions has minimized server crashes, reduced onboarding time by approximately 20%, and enabled 24,000 students to securely access network resources via iPads. The transition to Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) 1.2 has been pivotal in achieving secure and efficient network access across the district.
McAllen Intermediate School District
- 1. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 1 ImpactChallenges Why Cisco? SolutionCustomer Stats McAllen Intermediate School District • Industry: Education • Students: 25,300 • 34 campuses • Teachers: 1,500 • Employees: 1,500 • Location: McAllen, TX • Pre-K-12 • 65 percent of students are from economically disadvantaged families. • District provides a learning environment to foster creativity, ingenuity, and resourcefulness by giving students advanced technology. • Stopped server crashes caused by profiling, enabling guest access to be used. • Reduced onboarding time by ~20 percent, moving most users to self-service • Fosters learning initiative, freeing district to increase iPad distribution from 8,000 students to 24,000. • Supports BYOD policy, enabling teachers and staff to securely access network via smartphone, tablet, or district-provided laptops. • Ensures HIPAA, CIPA compliance to meet initiative grant requirements. • Enable 24,000 students to have secure network access with district- provided Apple iPads for use anywhere, anytime – on or off campus. • Secure multiple devices used by faculty and staff, including their own and district-provided, in minimally restrictive environment. • Facilitate onboarding by users, the majority of them students, with some as young as five years old. • Support HIPAA, CIPA compliance. • Migrated to Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) 1.2 as best solution to level academic environment with secure network access: Transforming Learning in Campus, Classroom & Community. • Serve a central role in bring- your-own-device (BYOD) policy for faculty and staff, as well as guest users, with district’s MDM provider. • Cisco ISE 1.2 • Cisco AnyConnect® • Cisco ASA 5585 Firewall • Cisco Web Security Appliance • Cisco Email Security Appliance • Cisco Nexus® 7000 • Cisco Catalyst® 6504 • Cisco UCS® • Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers 5800, 1700, 2600, 3500 “With the converged Cisco solution, we can now centralize monitoring and management for all our resources and provide better support and services to users without increasing IT staff.” — Brian C. Young, Infrastructure Manager, Adena Health System “We are an 18-year Cisco customer due to trust in our team and a shared passion to enhance learning. ISE 1.2 is central to our initiative to put an iPad in every student’s hands who needs a computer. Even five-year-olds can onboard themselves.” -- Pat Karr, Director, Network Services, McAllen ISD