So my school district wants to build their own fiber network

[AFB]

Even though there is

a) Verizon FIOS comming by January
b) Dark fiber for sale in other areas


BTW, this is a very large school district

 

[Rogue]

Are they interlinking the different schools within the district by laying new fiber between the locations?

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: Rogue
Are they interlinking the different schools within the district by laying new fiber between the locations?

Yes

 

[GeekDrew]

I'm sure their techs have some method behind the madness.

We just had SBC install gigaman service between two of our buildings. After we get the routers configured, everything should be *much* faster. We did have 4 T1s between sites.

 

[BigJ]

2 years ago my former HS laid fibre between 3 elementary schools, the middle school, and the high school. It really is a very nice setup they have.

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: BigJ
2 years ago my former HS laid fibre between 3 elementary schools, the middle school, and the high school. It really is a very nice setup they have.

We have quite a bit more

http://www.garlandisd.net/schools/index.asp

 

[UglyCasanova]

Hell I think spending thousands upon thousands on computers for schools is a waste of money. Kids should be exposed to computers, sure. But the main focus should always be BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS. I can't tell you how much time was wasted going to computer labs so we could see some trivial little animation on a computer program that could have been explained on the board in all of 2 seconds. I'm sorry, but there does not need to be a computer in every god damn classroom. That money would be better spent on books and teachers salaries.

 

[SilentRavens]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: BigJ
2 years ago my former HS laid fibre between 3 elementary schools, the middle school, and the high school. It really is a very nice setup they have.

We have quite a bit more

http://www.garlandisd.net/schools/index.asp

:shocked:

neo
"Whoa"
/neo

 

[Rogue]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: BigJ
2 years ago my former HS laid fibre between 3 elementary schools, the middle school, and the high school. It really is a very nice setup they have.

We have quite a bit more

http://www.garlandisd.net/schools/index.asp

So wait a minute!? There are that many schools in an area such as Dallas and they can't lease connectivity? Now I see where' you're coming from. It will likely cost more to lay fiber between two of those schools than it would to simply lease the bandwidth they need. Notice the emphasis on need. It sounds to me like you've got some overzealous IT folks and some people with too much money to spend and not enough damn common sense.

I ran a call center with upwards of 400 employees (about 250 people during peak hours) all off of a single T1 circuit that also served data to various other centers to include our corporate office and rarely, if ever, was it slow. You can't tell me that any single school in that district has more than 150 PCs max to even start to make use of fiber (which I'll assume will be used at least for 1Gbit transmissions, minimum). I now see where you're coming from. This is assinine and you should start a campaign with various school affiliated organizations to stop this.

 

[Rogue]

GISD is in the process of upgrading many of the computers at the campuses to Windows '98, electronic e-mail, and Internet ready. This is a two or three year process and is based on the voter-approved $36 million dollar bond package of 1996.

http://www.garlandisd.net/departments/technology.asp

They are still upgrading to Windows 98 but want to lay fiber all over the damn place? Hello?! WTF!!! I hate it when tax dollars are wasted like this, absolutely hate it! Even if this is a typo, they should freaking worry about paying the salary of someone to keep their damn website up to date before they go laying fiber all over hell and back.

 

[GoodToGo]

AOL Chat...now on fibre!

 

[mwtgg]

Huge school district. Damn.

That being said, they shouldn't be able to waste tax money like this. Freakin shame.

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: Rogue

GISD is in the process of upgrading many of the computers at the campuses to Windows '98, electronic e-mail, and Internet ready. This is a two or three year process and is based on the voter-approved $36 million dollar bond package of 1996.

http://www.garlandisd.net/departments/technology.asp

They are still upgrading to Windows 98 but want to lay fiber all over the damn place? Hello?! WTF!!! I hate it when tax dollars are wasted like this, absolutely hate it! Even if this is a typo, they should freaking worry about paying the salary of someone to keep their damn website up to date before they go laying fiber all over hell and back.

No, we've been with 98 for ohh bout since '99 moving to completly XP. Yeah, the webmaster for the site sucks, can't you tell they hired out for design?.

Yeah, my point is that since there is already fiber in the ground and providers foaming at the mouth to provide it. We do infact run each school off a single TI which is infact saturated by the approx. (you got it about right) 150 - 200 computers per HS and I bet ~100 per middle school and ~ 75/ES.

While they really do need bandwidth, they don't need to manage a fiber network.