When MsTECH won Jamaica's national education network contract, everyone said it couldn't be done. 364 schools. 3,150 access points. 90 days. Six different hardware vendors.
Here's how they did it—and what other MSPs can learn from their approach.
The Challenge
Jamaica's Ministry of Education needed Wi-Fi in every school. Fast. The existing infrastructure was a patchwork of different vendors, installed over years by different contractors.
The traditional approach would be: rip everything out, install one vendor, manage from their cloud. But that meant:
MsTECH proposed something different: keep the existing hardware, add OpenWiFi where needed, manage everything from one platform.
The Solution
Using wibipOS as the control plane, MsTECH built a multi-vendor management layer that handled:
One dashboard. One support team. One operational model.
The Results
The deployment is now scaling to 1,000 schools across the entire education system.
Key Lessons
1. Multi-Vendor Is a Feature, Not a Bug
MsTECH didn't fight the hardware diversity—they embraced it. This let them move faster and spend less.
2. Operational Efficiency Beats Technical Perfection
A 90% solution deployed in 90 days beats a 100% solution deployed in 18 months.
3. Platform Choice Matters
The right management platform turns multi-vendor chaos into operational advantage.
4. Small Teams Can Do Big Things
MsTECH is a 5-person company. The platform did the heavy lifting.
What's Next
The Jamaica deployment proves that national-scale, multi-vendor Wi-Fi networks are possible. The question for other MSPs: what's stopping you?