The nation’s second-largest school district needed to modernize its aging LAN infrastructure to support current technologies and a growing student population. After eight years on the same systems, the district issued a request for bids to identify a provider that could upgrade network, voice, wireless, and public announcement capabilities across multiple school sites.

PM2 NET was selected to deliver professional services for the modernization initiative. PM2 NET engineers visited 11 school sites, migrated existing networks, implemented VoIP, deployed public announcement systems, installed Cisco access points and wireless controllers, and improved wireless performance across the district’s environments.

By working around school operating hours and completing after-hours implementation when needed, PM2 NET delivered the upgrades within the required timeline and helped the district improve connectivity, centralize voice management, and reduce ongoing managed services dependency.

Client Background

The client is the second-largest school district in the United States. It serves more than 640,000 kindergarten through 12th grade students across more than 900 schools and 187 public charter schools.

The district’s boundaries span more than 720 square miles and include all or parts of 31 smaller municipalities, along with several unincorporated areas of Southern California. Because of its size and complexity, the district requires scalable, reliable, and centrally manageable technology infrastructure to support teaching, administration, communications, and emergency operations.