10-gig switching

Communications News, Feb, 2008

The Tornillo Independent School District, nestled just outside El Paso, Texas, recently decided on a 10-gigabit switching infrastructure with fiber uplinks to boost network performance and improve connectivity for its entire regional infrastructure. At the helm of the project was Armando Gonzales, the district's network administrator.

"We did our homework, and chose D-Link because they could provide the solution we needed at the best value" he says. The district bought 30 D-Link xStack DXS-3350SR switches and nine DEM-420X XFP 10G uplink modules to connect the switches via fiber between their campuses and administrative buildings. "The project helped us replace an inadequate foundation with an efficient, reliable 10G network" says Gonzales.