CASE STUDY ABBOTSFORD SECURES ITS NETWORK & ENABLES BYOD WITH NETWORK ACCESS CONTROL INTRODUCTION The Abbotsford School District in the city of Abbotsford, BC, has about 18,500 students and 2,100 teachers and staff at its 46 schools. Every classroom has wireless devices, including document cameras, projectors, and a laptop/desktop for the teacher. The district also provides tablets, laptops, and lab devices for students—about 10,000 devices in total. The district’s network was under siege. Students were flooding the network with their cell phones, taking up valuable bandwidth needed for instruction and putting the network, students, and the district at risk. Moreover, passwords to school-owned devices were constantly being compromised, allowing unknown devices onto the network, a

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