Alan’s Blog

Yesterday was a red letter day. We had our first project meeting with BT who won the contract for the supply of the new schools wide area network. It’s these network connections that link individual schools to John Muir House and then out to the Internet through the SSDN connection. 

For those who are interested in the technical bits, the solution we have purchased will have a series of 100Mb backbone circuits running from John Muir House to each secondary school. From the secondary school the network will fan out with 10Mb circuits connecting to each primary school, nursery school and a few other educational establishments. 

New firewalls will be installed in every secondary school and a new security device will be installed in other locations. 

The first phase, to be completed by Christmas, will see the 100Mb backbone circuits installed in the secondary schools. This will be followed by the 10Mb circuits to the other schools which are scheduled for completion by the Easter Holidays 2007.