Motorola Case Study Sample

“We face two major challenges,” says Stephen Choi, director of technology, San Marino Unified School District. “The first is the rapid growth of Internet-based educational resources such as streaming multimedia content. The second is a huge increase in the number of students with Internet-enabled wireless laptop computers, phones and other devices.”

The district quickly recognized that to accomplish their goals, its communications technology needed to be faster, more powerful and more mobile. The technology upgrade project was planned in stages, beginning with the multi-building high school campus. The objectives were clear. The high school needed high-speed Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) connectivity, campus-wide mobility, multi-user streaming multimedia capabilities and the need for a forward-looking network in terms of standards and performance. The search began for a high-performing network solution that would meet all these requirements now and into the future.

Solution: High-Speed Wireless Network

The district decided to partner with Moonblink Communications, a highly experienced wireless solutions distributor headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. “We did quite a bit of research looking at what technology is available on the market,” notes Choi. Together, the team selected a Motorola 802.11n WLAN. “San Marino had a very good idea of what they wanted,” says Moonblink’s CEO, Darrell Alfaro. “At the core of their vision was the ability to have multiple users, including both students and faculty, using streaming multimedia from the Internet at the same time. We believed that the high-bandwidth Motorola 802.11n WLAN, with throughputs of 150 Mbps, would be the ideal network for the district.”