On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 11:54, Chris Puttick wrote:
Have friends in high places... Well, connections with a university that's involved in the JANet backbone. It's 1000 base LX into the heart of NW JANet and our firewall is the limiting factor (only got 100Mb card on the LAN side...). Also we were told in no uncertain terms that if we ever used the bandwidth available we'd be cut off. Which seems fair! We've never peaked past 4Mb according to Fluke.
Just think, you could have a massive server farm in the middle of Manchester and run thin client to all the schools in the LEA providing all their Office and other productivity tools with no licensing costs and a fully managed service. Now that would save large amounts of money and provide some real leadership to the rest of the education service ;-) -- ian <ian.lynch2@ntlworld.com>