1. School Development Officer
WAN – Offboarding #2
What should schools do?
Ian Gover
School Development Officer

2. Information you need
Primary Schools have a 10 mbps (Mega bits per second) connection
Secondary Schools have a 100 mbps connection
How many learners do you have?
How many devices do you have?
Does the schools have a plan to extend use?

3. How much bandwidth do you use?

4. Size of connection - Primary
For a primary school with 200 pupils and 40 connected devices at 2mbps
40 devices = 80Mb and assuming 1 in 10 devices are simultaneously active at times of peak usage = 8 Mbps
2012
2017
8 Mbps
30 Mbps

5. Size of connection - Secondary
2Mbps per user download for a school with 400 devices = 800Mb. Allowing for 1 in 10 devices being active simultaneously at times of peak demand means that the connection capacity should be 80Mbps. The best connected schools in the UK have 1 Gbps connections.
2012
2017
80 Mbps
297 Mbps

6. Choices

7. eLIM advice
Secondary schools should consider buying a 1 gig link – throttle back to 100 or 200 mbps
Most primary schools will be okay with superfast broadband

8. But if no Superfast Broadband..
ADSL – check the speed
Bonded – two lines glued together
Some Primary schools will need a fibre connection

9. What questions should I ask?
What are the predicted speeds?
Is the connection ‘contended’
What filtering is there?
Does the school have control?
What monitoring is there?

10. What questions should I ask? #2
How much money do I have?
How many years is the contract?
What are the Service Level Agreements?

11. 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

12. 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

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