New Jersey District Boosts Bandwidth for Classroom Instruction

Glen Rock Public Schools in New Jersey has upgraded its telecommunications network in an effort to improve performance and functionality while cutting costs.

GRPS contracted with Optimum Lightpath, which specializes in Ethernet-based communications networks for businesses and institutions in the New York metropolitan area and throughout New Jersey, to overhaul its existing network with a 100 megabit, fiber-based bundle that gives the district 30 times its previous bandwidth for dramatically faster Internet speeds, as well as a phone system that offers long distance and voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) capabilities for a flat monthly rate.