1. www.uni-c.dk Connecting schools in Denmark Kurt Bøge Head of Support department

2. www.uni-c.dk Questions What do the schools need? Are they ready to be connected? Do they have the internal ressources?

3. www.uni-c.dk What do the schools need? Everything Security Services Support

4. www.uni-c.dk Are (were) they ready to be connected? Techinally ready Existence of LAN Technical skills Organisationally ready Possibilities / opportunities

5. www.uni-c.dk Do they have the internal ressources For what? Establish and maintain it-security Establish and maintain services (mail, webservice) General trouble-shooting

6. www.uni-c.dk What really matters is Identity – creating a feeling of being part of a community Organisation – do you have an organisation behind the network that knows the schools, what they need now and in the near future Not the physical network

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9. Sektornet – the danish way Sektornet is an offer to all schools from the danish ministry of education All schools? ’Grundskoler’ [primary+ lower secondary] Upper secondary Vocational schools Teacher training colleges Universities

10. www.uni-c.dk Universities??? Only for administrative purposes The universities have their own network – Danish research network The reseach network and Sektornet is two separate networks

11. www.uni-c.dk What is Sektornet Basic network and security Network services Support

12. www.uni-c.dk Basic network and security Homogenous solution One and only one supplier of bandwith 32 kb - ? One manufacturer of equipment –Cisco One routerbased preconfigured firewall Advanced and higly flexible Maintained centrally Based on the schools needs and wished

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14. Network services (basic services) SkoleKom – a nation-wide e-mail and conferencing system Web-hotel – an opportunity for the schools to make web presentations of the schools available to others. FTP – file transfer opportunity News – access to worldwide newsgroups Mail*Hub – exchange and conversion between different mail systems DNS – domain name service; usually described as conversion between symbolic names and IP addresses

15. www.uni-c.dk Network services (added services) The Toolbox Abuse & CERT EMU

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17. Support Differents schools have different needs for support Lack of skills at many schools Economic considerations

18. www.uni-c.dk Establishment support – only 1. year Training – sektornet basic course Written information materials Meetings

19. www.uni-c.dk Operational support ’ …the users should experience the accessibility to the network as a matter of course’ Error detection Problem solution Processing of administrative orders …

20. www.uni-c.dk The future Could we merge (parts of) Sektornet and the Danish Research network?