Today every Rush Creek campus backhauls through Green Oaks on a Spectrum private WAN — so if Green Oaks goes down, every site goes with it. Nucleus replaces that with a managed SD‑WAN: each campus gets its own internet breakout and a secure overlay into Nucleus, so the network keeps running even if any one site — Green Oaks included — drops offline.
SD‑WAN gives every campus its own internet connection and a software‑defined overlay into Nucleus. There’s no hub campus to depend on — sites reach each other and the cloud through Nucleus, with traffic steered over the best available path and encrypted end to end.
Each phase brings a campus onto the Nucleus SD‑WAN in a controlled cutover, with the existing Spectrum circuit kept live until the new breakout is validated. Sequence below is the proposed order; it can be reshuffled around your campus calendar.
Provision the Nucleus SD‑WAN core and bring up the Green Oaks edge with its own 200 Mbps internet breakout. Policy, segmentation, and the encrypted overlay are defined here once.
Bring Mansfield West and Mira Lagos onto their own breakouts and into the overlay. These carry the heaviest streaming and service load, so they move first.
Add Arlington Park and Midlothian. With all five edges live, every campus has its own breakout and a secure overlay — and no campus depends on another to reach the internet.
Throughput validation per site, outage testing (pull any site — including Green Oaks — and confirm the rest stay up), optional LTE/5G backup, and onboarding to Nucleus 24×7 monitoring. Spectrum circuits are decommissioned only after the new ones pass.
Managed SD‑WAN service per campus, billed monthly. Each site gets its own internet breakout; speeds are right‑sized — 200 Mbps for the high‑traffic campuses, 100 Mbps where that's plenty.
| Campus | Service | Speed | Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green Oaks | SD-WAN | 200 Mbps | $949.95 |
| Mansfield West | SD-WAN | 200 Mbps | $949.95 |
| Mira Lagos | SD-WAN | 200 Mbps | $949.95 |
| Arlington Park | SD-WAN | 100 Mbps | $799.95 |
| Midlothian | SD-WAN | 100 Mbps | $799.95 |
| Proposed monthly — all five campuses | $4,449.75 | ||
All campuses on Nucleus managed SD‑WAN · each with its own internet breakout · month‑to‑month figures shown.
Moving off the Spectrum private WAN to a managed SD‑WAN lowers the all‑in monthly spend across the church — while removing the Green Oaks single point of failure and giving every campus its own breakout.
Green Oaks stops being the center of the network. Lose any one campus and the others keep running on their own.
Drops the USF‑heavy private‑WAN line items riding on Spectrum’s circuits, trimming the regulatory fees baked into today’s bill.
Every campus reaches the internet locally — faster cloud and streaming, no traffic hair‑pinning through another site.
One site’s outage doesn’t isolate the others — the SD‑WAN overlay routes around failures automatically.
Add a wireless failover circuit at any campus later without re‑architecting — the SD‑WAN treats it as just another path.
Likely cheaper overall than the current Spectrum private‑WAN model — one managed service, one Nucleus support line.
We'll schedule a site survey for Green Oaks and the four campus locations, confirm install windows, and lock the rollout to your calendar.