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By: Bernie McCormick

E-Rate used to reimburse for phone lines - now no longer paying for it. Decreasing 20% per yr for the next 5 years. Will reimburse for VoIP implementation.

www.usac.org/sl/ - Schools and Libraries (E-Rate) 

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//Scott Adamson - Friends// - Wireless implementations, updates and upgrades funds are available for 2015 onwards =====

//Scott Adamson - Friends// - Documentation and communication for ERate now needs to be maintained for 10 Years
Fonality - Cloud based VoIP platform - runs off Polycom phones. Cloud strategy is your production and disaster recovery plan.

If you are going to do any kind of implementation - bring in a 3rd party consultant. - adds level of connectivity.

To make the jump - you need Power Over Ethernet switches and a lot of wattage. POE+ 400 phones 4meg overhead with no traffic.

Finding a way to back out of a situation (contract) is just as important as going into one.

Now onto Domain Controllers in the cloud. Model to keep one at each site, and 2nd in cloud. - does not need to replicate all the time to keep powered off and only on when you need to replicate.

[|MS Azure]- to spin up windows server in cloud - very easy Risks to cloud - single point of failure - no local redundancy - no control. Poor customer service with the big companies.

Tunnel to network needed, VPN or port. What you pay for: Storage, CPU Cycles, and Bandwidth - Necessary to do server tuning to limit these. When using [|Amazon], powerful API to automate these things.

[|ExpanDrive]- logs into all cloud services -maps drive locally from a cloud source [|Strongsync]- Service to service sync.

OwnCloud - build your own dropbox [|ownload.org](open source), [|owncloud.com] (paid) ' [|Vendor List for VOIP/E-Rate Consultants] //Scott Adamson - Friends Seminary// - Schooley Mitchell (Greg Lowry - greg.lowry@schooleymitchell.com) Working with them for review of past ERate+2015 thru 2016 funds.