The United Nations International School of Hanoi (UNIS Hanoi) is a co-educational English-language day school and the first international school established in Vietnam. Being one of the United Nations international schools in the world, UNIS Hanoi follows the ideals and principles of the United Nations in action every day and is committed to inspiring and equipping young people to build a better world.
With more than 1,100 students enrolled each year, and over 300 staff members, Adam Archer, Senior Manager of IT, and his team support the school’s network to provide their students with the best educational experience for their young global citizens. With their relationship with the United Nations at its core, UNIS Hanoi strives to provide an exceptional learning community. Archer and his team are tasked with providing seamless and market-leading technology for students and staff.
With a large and distributed campus at UNIS Hanoi, the IT team was challenged to provide a consistent and reliable network throughout the campus. Devices needed to be connected to the network everywhere across the campus -- no matter where students or staff went on campus. The existing network was unreliable due to aging technology, creating challenges to resolve issues when they arose.
Prior to Meraki, their network infrastructure consisted of a mixture of switch models, running different configuration and firmware , which made it extremely difficult for the IT team to provide uniform support between all the non-uniform hardware. With the lack of network visibility and a large number of user devices being connected, troubleshooting IT issues was difficult and time-consuming.
Archer wanted the network to follow the school’s vision of using next-generation technology. They saw Meraki as a potential partner in their journey to the cloud.
Archer and his team are tasked with providing seamless and market-leading technology for students and staff.
