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K-12 Education

Seamless Wi-Fi, everywhere your students go.

From the classroom to the gym to the bus loop, one Arista network delivers reliable, secure, high-density wireless coverage across your entire district — built for lean IT teams, not against them.

Josh Drooks — Account Manager, Arista Networks
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The K-12 Reality

Your network has to work harder than most

Schools ask more of a wireless network than almost any other environment — and with less staff to run it.

1:1 Device Programs

Every student now carries at least one connected device, sometimes two or three — multiplying the client density a single classroom AP has to handle.

High-Density Spaces

Gyms, cafeterias, and assembly halls pack hundreds of devices into one room for pep rallies, testing days, and lunch periods.

Outdoor & Transitional Spaces

Athletic fields, stadiums, bus loops, and parking lots need reliable coverage too — often with nowhere convenient to run cable.

Lean IT Teams

Many districts run their entire network — across a dozen or more buildings — with one or two IT staff who don't have time for a fleet of separate consoles.

Student Safety & Compliance

CIPA compliance, content filtering, and Wi-Fi threat protection aren't optional extras — they're expected of any E-Rate funded network.

Uneven Funding Cycles

E-Rate and district funding often arrive in multi-year, uneven cycles — the network needs to be built to last, not to force another renewal every year.

Coverage That Follows the Day

Every space a school day touches

Click a space to see how Arista covers it.

The Arista Approach

Five ways this actually gets easier

Click any pillar for the detail behind it.

Budget & E-Rate

Built for how districts actually fund networks

E-Rate, the FCC program that helps schools and libraries afford connectivity, tends to fund in uneven, multi-year cycles — not smooth annual budgets. A network built around forced subscriptions fights that reality. One built on perpetual licensing works with it.

Perpetual, Not Rented

Arista EOS licensing is perpetual — the access points and switches a district buys keep working without a forced renewal just to stay manageable and supported.

One License, Everything Included

No premium tier to unlock application visibility, hitless upgrades, spectrum analysis, or WIPS — every Arista Wi-Fi license includes the full feature set from day one.

Predictable Multi-Year TCO

Districts can budget a network refresh against an E-Rate funding cycle instead of bracing for a subscription renewal that competes with classroom line items every year.

Scales Without Re-Architecting

The same EOS and CloudVision platform that covers one school covers fifty — a district doesn't outgrow the architecture or need a new management system as it expands.

District-Wide, Not Building-by-Building

Run every school from one dashboard

CloudVision Cognitive Unified Edge (CV-CUE) gives a district's IT team — often just one or two people — a single pane of glass for every building, cloud or on-prem.

Zero-Touch Provisioning
New APs ship, get racked, and come online without a truck roll — ideal for rolling out a whole school over summer break.
One Login, Every Building
A district-wide view of every school's Wi-Fi health, not a separate console per site.
AI-Assisted Troubleshooting
Built-in AIOps (AVA / AskAVA) flags problems before a teacher has to call the help desk.
Cloud or On-Prem
Districts with data residency or connectivity requirements can run CloudVision on-prem instead of in the cloud.
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Ready to see it across your district?

One architecture, one dashboard, one license — built to make pervasive Wi-Fi simple for the team that has to run it.

Josh Drooks
Account Manager, Arista Networks
jdrooks@arista.com
617-777-2817
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