Managed Network Switching
Switching Solutions for your School’s Local Area Network. Support your school’s digital infrastructure and optimise network performance with traffic-prioritising switching solutions.
Wavenet Education
Managed network switching for a better safer learning environment
A reliable and effective network switch infrastructure is crucial for avoiding connectivity and network problems in school networks. As education increasingly depends on online resources and systems, outdated hardware can expose your network to security vulnerabilities and hinder access to essential resources and applications.
Advantages of an effective network switch infrastructure:
Simple accessible interface
Manage, monitor and identify areas of concern within your Local Access Network's traffic and activity from a simple comprehensive interface.
Optimise performance with traffic management
Configure your switch to identify the network traffic that should be prioritised on your local network at peak usage times.
Improve online security and safeguarding
Control how data travels through your school's network and who has access to it to safeguard students and teachers and prevent unauthorised access.
DfE standards compliance
Our managed network switching service ensures compliance with the DfE digital guidance standards for providing fast, reliable, secure network connections.
The Department of Education’s key network switching standards
- Fast, reliable and secure connections - Due to schools facing a high number of users accessing the network at the same time, the DfE outlines that network switches should provide a minimum of 1Gbps connectivity to the user device and provide fast, reliable, secure, connections to both wired and wireless networks.
- Central management platform - Network switches should be configurable from a single central management tool which can also monitor performance and provide alerts in the event of a network failure.
- User-protecting security features - Switches should be configured to 'support network segregation, security and quality of service' whilst not impacting the network's deployment or performance. To ensure continued security and performance, software updates should be implemented as soon as they are available and any administrative accounts able to make switch configuration changes must be secure and fully documented.
- Reducing major outages - Critical switches and their connections should be identified and provided with multiple uninterruptible power supply solutions and dual connections to ensure single-element failure will not cause a major outage. The DfE requires core switches should have 2 power supplies, 2 management modules, and 2 connections to other critical infrastructures.
Why Wavenet
30+ Years Experience
Our teams have been delivering 'designed-for-schools' technology for over 30 years.
4,000 Schools Nationwide
We’ve already implemented 100s of networks in over 4,000 school environments.
Full Project Management
As an IBSL Approved Partner, we offer complete ICT solutions for your school.
DfE Compliant Solution
Tailored services that support compliance with DfE digital and technology standards.
Accredited DBS Checked Engineers
All our engineers undergo a thorough vetting process and possess extensive experience.
