Get comprehensive security of all your endpoints. Cisco Duo brings the power of a Zero Trust model to your school, ensuring only trusted users and devices can enter the network. Students and staff can use personal devices securely by authenticating their identities quickly and easily. Secure Endpoint offers cloud-delivered, advanced endpoint detection and response across multidomain control points to rapidly detect, contain, and remediate advanced threats. Connect it all with SASE using Umbrella: the cloud-native, multi-function security service at the core of Cisco’s SASE architecture. It unifies firewall, secure web gateway, DNS-layer security, cloud access security broker (CASB), and threat intelligence solutions into a single cloud service.

Whether you need converged wired and wireless, cloud-managed, or out-of-the-box solutions, Cisco has a switch to fit your business needs.

Cisco switching advantages include:

• Gigabit and Power over Ethernet are now the minimum requirements in the access layer
• With Full Flexible NetFlow, you can use the network as a sensor
• True stacking turns several switches into one, with one interface and IP address
• Over-the-air management for configuration when a console cable is not practical
• Quiet, fan-less operation for environments sensitive to noise

Connected Transportation for Education provides students with high-speed connectivity while they are en route. Parents can rest easy knowing their children are safe on their way to and from school. Administration can ensure communication stays open and transportation remains on schedule.

Benefits include:

• Reduced fuel costs
• More fleet uptime
• Real-time vehicle tracking
• In-cab applications

The Cisco Connected Transportation for Education solution can help transportation managers reduce fuel costs by as much as 10 to 30 percent while gaining thousands of hours of more productivity from the fleet and its workforce.

The need for secure, zero-trust networking is growing as campus networks become more distributed and offsite IT teams become the norm. Cisco DNA Center is a powerful network controller and management dashboard that lets you take charge of your network, optimize your Cisco investment, secure your remote workforce, and lower your IT spending. Full automation capabilities for provisioning and change management are enhanced with AI-enhanced analytics that pull streaming telemetry from everywhere in the network.

Simplify management and streamline network operations with an intelligent intent-based network controller.

Cisco WiFi-6 allows you to provide more consistent and dependable network connection. Give your students and staff a seamless experience.

As wireless demands increase and include more IoT devices, Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) handles more data across the airways than previous Wi-Fi standards. It also handles more active clients per access point.

Wi-Fi 6 achieves speeds up to 4 times faster than previous Wi-Fi standards, improving the user experience and performance of bandwidth-hungry apps like voice, video, and collaboration.

Schools today have been forced to adapt to new learning models, such as the hybrid model to maintain learning continuity in this ever-changing environment. More than ever, technology is called upon to provide equitable, effective, and efficient learning, and Cisco Meraki networking and security solutions are ready to help.

While many learning resources are now hosted in the cloud, there’s always a few essential services back in the classroom - that students or staff may need secure access to.

Meraki MX provides the perfect termination point for remote connections, with no special software for up to 10,000 connections.

Cisco’s end-to-end security architecture creates a highly safe and secure learning environment. That includes network, endpoint, and web security, as well as identity and access control, and more.

Our security solutions connect teachers and classrooms to first responders for instant alerting and notification. Systems that allow teachers to send alerts instantly with just the press of a button. Administration can let teachers know help is on the way by discreetly acknowledging the alert from the front office. The interface empowers administrators with more awareness of the entire campus, which allows them to provide more useful information for first responders in the event of a crisis.

Systems built with K-12 in mind. It empowers you with all the features you’ve come to expect, like bell scheduling, zone creation, bell manipulation and two-way intercoms.

EPIC makes it easy to communicate on campus. You can broadcast to the entire campus or just a single room. Administrators can have full-duplex audio, hands-free communication between the office and any classroom. EPIC’s interactive campus map feature provides real-time situational awareness from communication during urgent situations.