Exinda Helps The Glennie School Control Social Media Traffic and Guarantee Performance of SaaS Learning Apps

TORONTO--()--Exinda, a global leader in network optimization and bandwidth management solutions, announced today that The Glennie School has implemented Exinda Network Orchestrator to help support their 1:1 notebook computer program and to help guarantee cloud-based learning applications like Google Apps for Education, YourTutor, and Mathletics, perform reliably at all times.

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The Glennie School, a private K-12 educational institution in Queensland, is a big advocate of technology in the classroom. Whether it’s ensuring reliable and predictable access to SaaS educational applications or controlling social media usage during peak hours, the school must support the mobile devices and network activities of over 1600 students, faculty and parents.

“The Glennie School was previously using a firewall to block traffic,” says Kevin Kirksey, VP of Sales, Exinda. “The challenge is that firewalls aren’t designed to control and prioritize traffic at a user or group level, let alone do so at the application level, which is needed to enforce appropriate use of the school’s network and also guarantee that important learning and administrative applications always perform.”

After installing Exinda’s fully integrated wan optimization solution, The Glennie School was able to:

  • Monitor and report on all network traffic and identify how students and faculty are consuming bandwidth
  • Prioritize faculty network usage over students and guarantee network resources for critical learning and administrative applications
  • Eliminate wasteful bandwidth consumption and restrict social media traffic like Facebook, Twitter and torrent sites during school hours
  • Ensure a safe and secure online experience for all students

“Exinda was one of the first solutions we could find that offered layer 7 application definitions for web traffic and allowed us to apply blocking rules for Active Directory users and groups without having to set proxy settings in the browser,” says Matthew Russell, IT Manager, The Glennie School. “Exinda is very intuitive to configure and use compared to other products and provides great insight into the network.”

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Exinda is a leading global supplier of WAN solutions that enable organizations to assure a predictable user experience for strategic business applications through policy-based WAN Orchestration. Exinda solutions intelligently allocate network bandwidth and optimize traffic based on the priorities of the business. The company has helped more than 4,000 organizations in over 80 countries worldwide assure application performance, improve the end-user experience, contain recreational applications and reduce network operating costs for the IT executive.
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Courtney Senior, 647.558.4634
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Release Summary

Exinda helps a K12 school control social media traffic and guarantee the performance of cloud-based learning applications.

Contacts

Exinda
Courtney Senior, 647.558.4634
PR and Marketing Manager
courtney.senior@exinda.com