Case Study: Falkner House - mtech.cloud

Falkner House is a school for girls aged between four and 11 years, with a co-ed nursery for children from two to four. Established in 1954, there is an immense family history to the school, with the hallmark values of kindness, good humour, grit and resilience stemming back to the founder Mrs Nunes.

The small but unique school provides an outstanding academic education in a family atmosphere. All children are given the confidence and opportunity to excel, each one being nurtured as an individual.

Falkner House describe themselves as Londoners through and through, embracing the best of British values in one of the most diverse cities in the world.

The project commenced Phase 1 with configuration and installation of new wireless infrastructure. On a daily basis and during most lessons, Falkner House were running 48 iPads and 24 MacBooks through struggling access points from a leading industry vendor. M-Tech opted to use Aerohive for their exceptional fully managed enterprise wireless system. The chosen AP230s provide high performance and increased capacity with dual concurrent 2.4Ghz 802.11n/g/b radio and 5Ghz 802.11ac/n/a radio with beamforming which can support legacy 802.11a, b, g and n clients.

Phase 2 focussed on moving the existing physical servers to the cloud. These were getting to an age where they needed to be replaced to avoid the risk of disk failure; the school also needed an off-site disaster recovery and backup platform in place. After reviewing the options the school went with the m-tech.cloud platform. The servers were moved into the cloud and the school simply access their data via Citrix over a secure VPN, leaving no on-site server infrastructure.