1. WAN - Offboarding Ian Gover The process of telling people where to go
for a new broadband connection
Ian Gover
School Development Officer

2. Contract Adopted by County
Decision made with school working parties that schools will not be included in a new contract
Contract ends in Nov (Ragged end – 7 year from first connection)
Desire to end the contract as soon as possible to provide better connectivity to all and to save money
BT involved in discussions and devised timeline

3. Staged process to close down nodes

4. Order (Draft) March/April 25 Glastonbury, Wincanton May 43
Shepton Mallet, Frome
June 41
Ilchester, Yeovil
July 36
Burnham, Minehead
September 57
Bridgwater, Chard
October 46
Taunton 1
November 8
Taunton 2
December 3
Odds
Connection will be turned ‘off’ – no movement on this

5. Process Schools informed of date and asked for contact
Local meeting set up to discuss issues
Schools should consider:
What their vision is
Working in groups
Look at sustainable costs

6. Getting advice and quotes
Ask eLIM – independent advice
Support throughout the whole process
Paid for through schools ‘core’ money
Connections with broadband providers
3 quotes
Supports school to unpack the technical terms

7. Once decided Site survey Work with their technical support
Connection date
Request for cessation to eLIM
Cessation date – one month overlap?
Inform SIMS team

8. Somerset WAN
New Connection
Month 1
Information about closure date
Ask for quote, look at quotes
Month 2
Confirm quote
Month 3
Site survey
Month 4
Send cessation notice
Install
Month 5
Month 6
Month 7
Change connection
Month 8
Withdraw of connection

9. Possibilities More speed Superfast Broadband Leased line (Secondary?)
Upto 80mbps – be careful to check
Upload/download speed
Leased line (Secondary?)
Install a one gig line
Rate it down to 200bmps
Bonded lines
Not limited by the 1 gig line
Possible to change

10. Security and safety User based filtering Firewalls
Policy groups and the end of Staff Proxy
Monitoring
Keeping Children Safe in Education – new guidance
Firewalls
More control over firewalls
Joining networks together
Remote access

11. Financing Monies will be delegated to all schools from April
Schools pay back money to county while on Somerset WAN
Money will be charged until end of cessation notice
You will need to account for a double month

12. Financing…
If the cost of your new connection is more, then the school will get the ‘extra’ until the end of contract
Connection must be the closest available to the current provision
eLIM need to see the contract
Repaid at the end of term
If your contract is less then you should return the excess to Bank Sort code Account number Name: Ian Gover

13. Financing…
If the cost of your new connection is more then the school will get the ‘extra’ until the end of contract
Connection must be comparable
eLIM need to see the contract
Repaid at the end of term
If your contract is less then you keep the excess

14. Existing WAN We are still seeking technical improvements Still issues
As schools come off WAN there will be more bandwidth