2020 has forced schools and districts to make rapid investments in technology with tens of thousands of new computing devices rolled out to students. Unfortunately, not all these schools and districts were able to accompany these investments with necessary upgrades to their networks. The big news is that the industry building network equipment has paid attention to make modernization more approachable and less expensive. Implementing modernization is important because another giant leap is apparent to Learning Counsel researchers and is approaching quickly – a shift in administrative structure that goes well beyond devices and networks augmenting teaching and learning an entire restructuring of the delivery model that demands robust networks.