Union School District in San Jose, CA is gutting its old wireless infrastructure and moving to an enterprise-class WLAN to support its mobile computing efforts.
Hamden High School in Connecticut is installing a 400-kilowatt fuel cell to provide 90 percent of its electricity needs.
George Washington Carver Elementary School in Lexington Park, MD will formally activate a 2,100-panel solar energy system May 3.
Advanced networking consortium Internet2 will be working with Level 3 Communications, which develops fiber-based communications services, to deliver 8.8 terabit capacity to support institutions nationwide, including K-12 schools.
Two K-12 districts in Ohio--Elyria City School District and Perrysburg Schools--are beefing up their bandwidth with new agreements to tap into high-speed fiber.
The Berkshire School in Sheffield, MA has begun construction of a 2 megawatt solar installation.
The Mountain View Los Altos High School District in California has nearly completed construction of a 1.26 megawatt solar photovoltaic system.
The Paradise Valley Unified School District in Arizona has completed construction of a 2.66 megawatts solar installation.
Arista Networks has rolled out its new 10/40 gigabit Ethernet data center switch, the Arista 7050 series. Delivering 1.28 terabits of switching performance at less than 2 watts per 10 GbE interface, the 7050 series is, according to the company, the most power-efficient 10/40 GbE switch on the market. It is optimized for Hadoop Clusters, VMware virtual machine farms, and other broad-ranging enterprise deployments.
The Lodi Unified School District in California has begun construction of a 2 megawatt solar photovoltaic system that will generate $200,000 annually.