Sherborne Qatar, a secondary school in Qatar, has deployed its latest Smart Education solution to enhance greater levels of e-learning for its students and faculty.

In line with its commitment to create an environment that is conducive to modern learning, Sherborne Qatar selected Huawei and Saturn to deploy a fully integrated Smart Campus network, which will allow both staff and students to enjoy faster connectivity and a streamlined secure access to the school’s network and education tools.

By implementing a full agile campus infrastructure, Sherborne Qatar’s faculty and students will experience the latest e-learning technology with a software-based architecture that can allow IT managers to better manage the school’s network and ensure that it operates at its optimum.

With a software-based infrastructure that is more flexible than ever before, the new agile network also will allow for the infrastructure to be easily built and programmed according to the education needs of the faculty.

IT managers maintaining the network are able to respond to requirements on-demand, and have the power of scalability to accommodate future plans to build out more college campuses.  
 
Michelle Walker, Sherborne’s School IT manager, said: ”Sherborne Qatar holds itself to the high standards of our UK counterpart with a vision to offer the best learning experiences possible for our students. We have seen the role that innovative technology plays in enabling a more dynamic, interactive and fruitful learning environment.

“We wanted to create an engaging educational environment for our students so that they are able to reach the highest levels of academic success. Huawei’s Smart Campus solution was able to address the issues we were facing. The team helped us to build a scalable infrastructure that allows us the flexibility to easily extend e-learning platforms to more college campuses in the near future.”

Leading on the project, Huawei, a global ICT solutions provider, utilised its expertise in deploying smart education solutions to implement the Smart Campus Network, which includes the latest in switches, WiFi connectivity, Firewall Security protection and  routers.

The solution forms part of Huawei’s Agile Network series that is designed to prepare itself for the Software-Defined-Networking era that will assist end-users with addressing the future challenges of network development and convergence.

Emad Ramadan, director, Huawei, Enterprise Business, Qatar, said:  “In an increasingly digital age, educators are taking steps to deploy an ICT infrastructure based on  campus wide networks that are agile and can easily accommodate new service requests on demand.

“This has been a prevalent trend in Qatar in light of its Smart City vision to develop into a digital knowledge economy. Being involved in such collaboration is an important part of Huawei’s commitment to enriching the region’s education sector and building a better society through sharing knowledge and ICT expertise.” - TradeArabia News Service