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WEST NEW YORK BOARD OF EDUCATION
Managed Wide Area Network
EXPANDED EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND GREATER SECURITY ARE TWO OF THE BENEFITS OF A NEW FIBER OPTIC NETWORK
WEST NEW YORK- The school district will soon offer expanded educational opportunities and enhanced security thanks to a recent agreement that will pave the way for the installation of a fiber optic network linking the district's 12 school buildings.
The Board of Education recently entered into an agreement with Sunesys LLC to install and create a high-speed fiber optic netowk in all of the district's schools and educational facilities.
Installation is expected to start soon, with a completion date set for December 2007 and conversion to fiber optics by January 2008.
The new fiber optics network will increase the district's capability from 1.5 megabytes (through a T-1 line) to 2 gigabytes (2,000 megabytes) with the fiber optic network, thus greatly increasing Internet speed and capabilities.
"This new system will allow the district to expand our educational offerings with the latest on-line curriculum applications," says Superintendent of Schools Dr. Robert Van Zanten. "Among the many other benefits, it will also allow us to create the most modern security system available in schools with video surveillance cameras and swipe cards," he adds.
The primary benefits of the new system will be:
greatly enhanced communication between school buildings and facilities
the ability to share video files (there is no current capability for this function)
greater access to multi-media applications, including the ability to broadcast educational programs from one school to the entire district
increased Internet speed and capabilities
School officals say this is the right time to install the new system because the new schools under construction by the New Jersey Schools Construction Corp. are built only for high-speed fiber optics.
"We did not want a situation where the students in the older schools do not have the same access to the latest technology and information as those students in the new schools," explains Dr. Van Zanten. "With this system, all of our students, teachers and administrators will have access to 21st Century technology and learning tools." Sunesys LLC is a Pennsylvania-based telecommunications corporation that has particular expertise in education and healthcare. Among the most recent school districts in which it has installed a fiber optic network is the City of Philadelphia school district, the seventh largest in the nation with nearly 300 schools.
PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL DISTRICT
Managed Wide Area Network
Client:
The Philadelphia School District is the largest district in the State of Pennsylvania and the seventh largest in the nation by enrollment. The district is comprised of 177 elementary schools, 43 middle schools, 36 neighborhood and magnet high schools, eight vocational-technical schools and nine regional offices.
Background:
Previously, the district employed a 297-circuit frame relay wide area network and voice network. Sunesys was contracted to build and maintain a fiber optic MAN to provide connectivity through four core rings between 22 sites with point-to-point spurs out to the remaining 270+ facilities.
Solution:
The core Sunesys technology is an OC192 SONET based network utilizing Nortel Networks electronics. The ring is connected between the core sites using Optical Ethernet. The remaining 270 sites are lateral connections from each of the core nodes, providing maximum security. In addition, four Resilent Packet Rings (RPRs) support the voice, video and data traffic.
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