Have friends in high places... Well, connections with a university
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
bandwidth available we'd be cut off. Which seems fair! We've never
We offered and they didn't get it... IBM were up for putting in a z390 running 10,000 virtual Linux servers! Our connection was intended to provide Internet connectivity for all schools in Manchester, and soon this may come true (2 years later...). -----Original Message----- From: ian To: suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com Sent: 5/14/03 12:10 PM Subject: RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Using older machines for the internet On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 11:54, Chris Puttick wrote: that's the 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> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-help@suse.com