Huntingdon expands Boldyn IT support across campus

Huntingdon College has expanded its partnership with Boldyn Networks to provide managed network and IT support across its academic and administrative operations. The deal builds on an existing relationship that began with a residential network deployment on the Montgomery campus.

The broader agreement extends Boldyn's role beyond student housing into a wider range of college functions. Services include secure campus Wi-Fi, network access control, firewalls, virtual private network access, network segmentation, and 24/7 monitoring.

For the college, the agreement is intended to strengthen day-to-day technology support while allowing its in-house IT team to focus on teaching, learning, and student services. The move reflects a common challenge in higher education, where institutions are managing larger, more complex digital systems with limited internal staff.

Huntingdon's decision follows Boldyn's earlier residential network work on campus. That initial deployment appears to have served as a test of the supplier relationship before the college expanded the scope to academic and administrative functions.

Campus demands

Universities and colleges have become more dependent on stable connectivity across classrooms, offices, accommodation, and back-office systems. That has increased demand for outside providers that can run core network services, monitor systems continuously, and handle security functions that would otherwise require larger internal teams.

At Huntingdon, the expanded support model covers both infrastructure management and operational oversight. In addition to wireless networking and security controls, clients using Boldyn's managed campus services can access a portal that shows network health and support status in real time.

Boldyn has built a sizeable presence in the US higher education market, supporting more than 350 colleges and universities across residential and campus networking, cloud, IT, and security services.

That footprint indicates how widely campus technology operations are being outsourced. Colleges face rising expectations from students and staff for reliable digital access while also dealing with budget constraints and tighter staffing in specialist IT roles.

Executive comments

Matt Loecke, Senior Vice President of Higher Education, Boldyn Networks US, outlined the company's view of the operational need behind the deal.

"Higher education institutions depend on reliable technology services across student accommodation, classrooms, staff offices and administrative buildings. Huntingdon College's decision to expand its partnership with Boldyn reflects the trust built through our ResNet deployment and the importance of having a partner that understands the operational realities of campus IT," said Matt Loecke, Senior Vice President of Higher Education, Boldyn Networks US.

Huntingdon's Chief Information Officer linked the agreement to network modernisation and institutional competitiveness.

"Our extended IT partnership with Boldyn Networks will strengthen today's campus operations by bringing stability and reliability to network connectivity through technology modernization. This partnership positions Huntingdon competitively in the higher education space with regard to connective technologies and infrastructure," said Anneliese Spaeth, Chief Information Officer, Huntingdon College.

Wider trend

The arrangement underlines a broader shift in the sector towards managed services for campus networking and security. Rather than hiring additional full-time staff, institutions are increasingly turning to outside specialists to manage routine operations, maintain uptime, and respond to incidents, while internal teams concentrate on projects closer to academic delivery and student engagement.

That trend also reflects the growing overlap between network management and cybersecurity. Access control, firewalls, segmentation, and remote connectivity are no longer separate technical functions handled in isolation, particularly in environments where students, faculty, and administrators all rely on a shared digital estate.

For providers such as Boldyn, higher education offers repeat business across multiple parts of the same campus, from residence halls to teaching buildings and administrative offices. Huntingdon's expansion from residential networking into broader IT and network support shows how those relationships can deepen once an institution has already outsourced one part of its infrastructure.

For Huntingdon, the practical test will be whether the new arrangement reduces operational strain on its internal team while maintaining stable service across a larger share of campus technology. The college's stated aim is to free staff for projects that support teaching, learning, and the student experience.