1. What’s Broadband going to do for my school? by Andrew Mackey

2. Topics » An overview of broadband » Video Conferencing » Multi-media streaming » Digital learning content » Authentication

3. What is broadband? » Government targets 2Mb/s broadband to primaries May 06 » “True” broadband only: SLA for 24/7 access Symetric - Same speed up as down! No sharing of bandwidth

4. The old pipe:

5. The New Pipe:

6. Flow testing

7. Video Conferencing » Specific iniative for primaries » Linked to Digischool programDigischool » Portable equipment - PVX » Dedicated ‘friendly’ resourcefriendly » Schools can bid for equipment

8. Amanda Gardiner A friendly resource!

9. Multi-media streaming » Create and edit content REALREAL » Stream live events and record » Upload to share with other schools - or the world » Coming soon - Searchable content library

10. Digital Learning Content » Content from multiple providers » Content pre-positioning? » Trial periods » Bundles of content

11. » Smartfilter 4 – improved filtering, keywords,Google images » Filters anonymiser sites » 400Gb HDD, 3Ghz CPU, 2Gb RAM etc » New improved caching server Paid for Centrally

12. Authentication » Personalised services Customised filtering Auditing – EU regs 14/12/05 Personal content delivery

13. Shibboleth » Privacy based authentication » Major VLE’s / apps being adapted to use Shibboleth » Key strategy within Birmingham

14. URL’s and the like http://www.bgfl.org/digischool http://www.bgfl.org/realplayer Amanda.Gardiner@birmingham.gov.uk