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Azusa Unified reviews multi‑year technology upgrades including VoIP, Wi‑Fi 6 and expanded cybersecurity
Summary
Director of MIS Manuel Sanchez briefed the Azusa Unified School District Board of Education on completed and planned upgrades to the district’s data center, phone system, wireless network and cybersecurity posture, funded in part by E‑Rate and district sources.
Manuel Sanchez, the district’s director of management information systems, told the Azusa Unified School District Board of Education on April 8 that the district has completed major infrastructure work and is moving into a phase that assigns personal phone extensions and completes a Wi‑Fi 6 deployment.
Sanchez said the upgrades include a new data center with improved cable management and UPS capacity, a full migration to SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) phone service last week, replacement of dozens of network switches, and a planned rollout of 555 high‑density Wi‑Fi 6 access points for middle and high schools.
Sanchez said the work began with long‑standing reliability problems in the district data center and at school sites. "The new solution is...we transitioned to full SIP," he said, and added that the district increased its WAN/LAN transport capacity to 20 gigabits and that existing equipment can later…
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