Case Study: Cobb County School District - Network At Cobb Schools Keeps Cool With Liebert Foundation Mini Computer Rooms

Many of the servers on the Cobb County School District's wide area network were running in dangerously hot environments, according to tests conducted. Temperatures in 49 of the 102 cabinets tested – one at each school building – were found to be above 93° F.

The WAN had become an integral part of the operations of the Cobb County School District — at 96,000 students, the second largest in Georgia and the thirtieth largest in the U.S. Connecting all the schools with the central office, the WAN is used by teachers and staff for administrative tasks and by students for instruction, research, and out-of-class assignments. The WAN supports e-mail for 10,000 employees, 20,000 computers, 2000 printers, and hundreds of fax machines over T1 lines.