tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13751054.post4765200227956661589..comments2023-06-08T11:58:31.030-04:00Comments on On-Tech E-Rate Musings: Tempest in a portalOn-Techhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13423450823765892451noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13751054.post-91607634952888434312014-03-11T17:26:22.426-04:002014-03-11T17:26:22.426-04:00I agree. I know a district with just over 1,000 s...I agree. I know a district with just over 1,000 students. SETDA says they need 100 Mbps by next year, and the FCC seems to be buying into that artificial benchmark. The district currently has 20 Mbps to the Internet, and the tech director has the tech chops to know that they do not fill that pipe. Next year, they may go to 50 Mbps, just in case, but have no plans to go to 100 Mbps. And this is a district with a 90% discount, so money is no object.<br /><br />They haven't rolled out 1-to-1 to all grades yet, so they may get to needing 100 Mbps in a couple of years. They're already running VoIP over that pipe.On-Techhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13423450823765892451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13751054.post-60188244486375194072014-03-11T17:08:21.476-04:002014-03-11T17:08:21.476-04:00Another and more important issue is that ESH assum...Another and more important issue is that ESH assumes that just because their SchoolSpeedTest indicated that a school had, for instance, a 20 Mbs bandwidth, that that is all that was available to the school and the cure was either a larger internet or WAN connection. In most instances the school has the availability of more but choses not to purchase it because their internal connections will not carry greater bandwidth or the curriculum does not drive a need for more.There will likely be little relief for internal connections until 2016 as the ESH has focused on fiber, consortiums, & broadband with little recognition that the LAN's are the real issue, not the WAN's and Internet connections.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com