Managed networks and Wi-Fi for schools and universities in Portugal

Because the peak load is brutal and daily. At 8:30, a school with 600 pupils receives 600 phones asking to connect in the same minute, on top of classroom laptops, interactive whiteboards and library tablets. A 30-person office never sees anything like it.

Add projection in every lesson, the school management platform, the admin office and online tests. The result is a production infrastructure with a rush hour every school day, and almost no room to stop.

• Density Covering the building is not enough. You need capacity: access points per classroom where occupancy calls for it, central control and a throughput cap per user.
• Mixed profiles When pupils share the network with administration, grades, records and accounts are within reach of the curious. Separating networks is the first design we do, and the one we most often find missing.
• Minors' data Health, family background, identification and grades have enhanced protection under the GDPR. Encrypted backups, retention periods, role-based access and an incident response plan are an obligation, not an option.
• Calendar Nobody replaces cabling or servers in November. Major works fit into the summer, Christmas and Easter breaks.
• Spread-out campus Sports halls, canteen, library, gatehouse and classroom blocks, joined by cables nobody has records of. Fibre or wireless bridges between buildings, one rack per block and everything documented: that is how you prepare for the next decade.

• Certified cabling In every classroom, with a rack per block and fibre linking buildings: structured cabling and network infrastructure.
• Campus Wi-Fi Separate networks for pupils, staff, administration and visitors, under central management: high-density business Wi-Fi.
• Perimeter security Access control, isolation of the administrative network and filtering suited to each age group: managed firewalls and filtering.
• Systems and platforms Servers, admin office and library workstations, computer rooms, school management, Microsoft 365 Education or Google Workspace for Education: managed IT services.
• IP CCTV Entrances and common areas, with retention and access aligned with the rules for spaces used by minors: IP video surveillance.
• Data protection Encrypted backups, tested restores and a recovery plan ready for the start of the year: managed backups and a continuity plan.
• Ongoing operations An IT Unlimited contract with NOC and proactive monitoring, immediate response during school hours, in Portuguese and English. 24/7 oversight belongs to Premium 365 only.

By September, the leadership already knows the plan through to July.

Forward College: Lisbon (University of London). This European higher education institution entrusted us with the network, cabling and Wi-Fi of its Lisbon campus: firewall, segmentation between students, staff and administration, and bilingual IT Unlimited support. The Forward College success story describes the challenge: dozens of people connected at once, online classes and exams, no failure acceptable during the academic year.

Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública. Complete cabling of the building in Lisbon, sized for teaching, research and academic management.

The proof in numbers: 11 years in business, 232 clients, Top 5% PME (source: scoring.pt), 5.0 from 52 Google reviews.

• Annual plan Every intervention scheduled in a school break and approved by the leadership.
• Network map Which networks exist, who joins each one and under what rules.
• As-built dossier Plans per block, racks, certification of every point, inventory. It stays with the school.
• Backup policy What is kept, how often, for how long, and the result of the last restore.
• Urgency criteria A classroom without network in the middle of a test is critical; a broken library printer is not.

Education is one of DataRoad's sector specialisms, alongside hotels, clinics, offices and multinationals, public administration and embassies and international bodies.

Headquartered in Alfragide, with support across Portugal. Local pages: Lisbon, Cascais, Oeiras, Sintra, Leiria, Coimbra and Porto. Map in where we operate.

Book the visit before June: the survey and proposal come with no commitment. Schools mostly choose the IT Unlimited Premium plan, with unlimited on-site support. Lines open on weekdays, 9:00–13:00 and 14:00–18:30.

More than 10 workstations · support contract · remote, on-site and telephone support. +351 211 459 950 * · sales@dataroad.pt

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