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Category: Education, GWAVA Success StoriesThe American School for the Deaf, located on a 54 acre campus in West Hartford, CT is the first permanent school for the deaf and hard of hearing children in North America and remains a leader in deaf education.
The American School for the Deaf, located on a 54 acre campus in West Hartford, CT is the first permanent school for the deaf and hard of hearing children in North America and remains a leader in deaf education. Dedicated to serving deaf and hard of hearing people throughout their life span, ASD offers a wealth of resources including: K-12 Education, Birth to Three Services, PACES Program, Adult Vocational Services, Family Education Services, Sign Language Classes, In-House Audiological Services, In-House Cochlear Implant Services, Educational Assessments & Counseling, Outreach Educational Services.
Unique Needs
The American School for the Deaf has one GroupWise post office with about 500 users. GroupWise is available for the staff only; however, the campus is spread over 54 acres with 12 buildings and is open all of the time. Having a mobile group over such a large area and a mix of hearing and non-hearing impaired staff makes email critical.
Twiggy Girouard, Assistant IT Director – Network and Telecommunications Manager for the School, explains, “Because traditional methods such as phones and pagers do not work for our school, email communication is key for our staff. We can’t afford to have our system compromised.”
Sensitive to Spam
As a school, ASD is particularly sensitive to receiving emails that are inappropriate for children to see. With the GWAVA SMTP appliance stopping spam before it even enters the system and GWAVA’s other spam filters working inside GroupWise, Ms. Girouard is confident that these types of emails will not appear in their users’ mailboxes
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- Files: American School for the Deaf
