[Year 12 Its] new Multi-campus connection

[Frank Van Den Boom]

While this is not directly answering your question, I am just blown away by how rapidly this territory is changing at the moment. My personal experience to illustrate the point....
- 2 weeks ago, I was paying $50/mnth for a 256/64Kbps ADSL service and 24GB downloads
- For the same money, I am now on 1500/256 ADSL2 and 20GB downloads
- In the next couple of weeks, this will increase to "up to" 12Mbps ..... for the same money!!!!
 
Admitedly this deal is based on them (iiNet) providing phone services as well - but that costs the same as Telstra. But wait, there's more.... - free Voice over IP service with substantially lower call rates.
 
All of this makes it a bit harder for IS teachers to talk about typical LAN vs WAN speeds.....
 
Sorry - so amazed, I just had to share it.....
Frank

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	From: is-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Shane Mansfield 
	Sent: Mon 24/10/2005 3:15 PM 
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	Subject: [Year 12 Its] new Multi-campus connection
	
	

	
	
	       
	        Hi All,
	        
	        We are currently planning the IT needs of our new senior campus and will use the opportunity to upgrade our intr campus connections. I would love to hear advice from other multicampus schools on the following;
	
	        *       What technology did you use to connect all of your campuses? obviously we need to go with the most cost effective WAN technology but balance this with futureproofing
	        *       How did you determine your bandwidth requirements? how much is enough?
	        *       Which provider did you go with? I know government schools have an arrangement with telstra over optic fibre
	        *       If anyone is using Functional Solutions (Films) new e-library solution between campuses how much bandwidth is needed to effectively run this
	
	        Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I have had input from independent IT consultants but am keen to hear how various solutions are actually running over a multicampus.
	
	        Thanks
	
	        Shane Mansfield
	
	        IT Coordinator
	
	        The King David School
	
	
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