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Brownsville ISD’s BestBYOD Management Tips

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Featured Presenter

Chris RowanNetwork EngineerBrownsville ISD

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Largest district in Rio Grande Valley with

60 locations

IT supports over 48,000 students and

7,200 staff

Running a BYOD program with over 54,000 devices

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The Challenge

Managing BYOD

Explosion

Limited Network Visibility

Maxing Out

Bandwidth

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Solution Requirements

Visibility and

Control

Has to Work

Reliably

Solution Must Grow

With Us

Helped confirm

suspicions

Deployed in 30

minutes

Created initial policy

set

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The Results

Improved UserExperience

BYOD Control

Restrict Bypass Traffic

Conserve ValuableBandwidth

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The Results

Bandwidth allocation to priority applications to ensure fast and reliable performance – especially

for online testing and streaming media

Improved User Experience

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The Results

Web filter couldn’t see VPN or Anonymous Proxy traffic.Using Exinda, we created a policy to drop all bypass traffic

Restrict Bypass Traffic

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The Results

Technology department now has visibility into which users are doing what, where, when,

why and how

BYOD Control

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The Results

Restrict educationally irrelevant traffic like P2P, social media and online gaming to conserve bandwidth

Conserve Valuable Bandwidth