Infrastructure+Bandwidth+and+Preparing+for+Emerging+Technology

=Infrastructure, Bandwidth, and Preparing for Emerging Technology= <30ppl.in attendance

Wooster School - Switches – gigabit backbone, procurve switches, cable connection + T1 entire campus. Moving to VOIP. Wireless VLAN. Adam – HP Procurve – good service/replacement. 450 workstations. 3MBit/second – bonded T1. Fiber in between buildings. Non-VLAN.


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Bandwidth management versus security
VLANs one solution Wireless – one VLAN for guest access, one for internal. Authenticate to Radius through LDAP for access. Aruba.

Bandwidth
3mbps – consensus is it’s not enough. David Alphonso – recommends dedicating internet connection to academic versus administrative. Bandwidth Throttling? Bluesocket, Procera, Packeteer, Websense, Websquid. IPCop – open source firewall – proxy, active directory integration. ISA. Cost is an issue.
 * 4 schools with 10mbps or more. 1 with 20mbps- optimum online $3000/month
 * 10mbps – wave to wave - $2600/month (includes T1 between buildings)
 * Towerstream – 6mbps - $1500/month

Wireless
Wireless – G to N? not ready. N provides interference. Move to A? AP in every room? Disallowing B access? – better performance, better connection.

NetworkNick.com - resource available to schools

VOIP
Managed by Tech Department? VOIP is only internal - adds, moves, changes. Voicemails within email messages. Hybrid technologies available to use preexisting copper infrastructure. Tapit – phone software - monitoring, sniffing.