Schools are experiencing a surge in bandwidth requirements due to growing use of eLearning technologies, digital content distribution, one-to-one learning initiatives, online testing, BYOD policies, and federal connectivity initiatives. To address this, schools need high-capacity fiber networks capable of scaling to future needs, effective network management, and data center and cloud services to securely store and provide access to growing online resources. Limited budgets can be offset through savings from reducing printing, updating textbooks, and utilizing existing facilities more efficiently as needs change with digital transformation.

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Planning for Today's (and Tomorrow's) K-12
eLearning Bandwidth Requirements

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Obective
Learn about the growing impact of eLearning technologies
and devices (laptops, tablets, cloud-based applications,
and BYOD) on bandwidth requirements for K-12 schools.
While the federal E-Rate program provides subsidies to
help address these requirements, schools must consider
how best to implement and manage these new LAN,
WLAN, and WAN solutions. We'll provide guidance on best
practices for designing, managing, and securing a school's
LAN and WAN environments, while discussing why
schools should start thinking about data center services as
part of a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy.

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Agenda
Growing bandwidth requirements for K-12 schools
• What’s driving this bandwidth surge?
• How should schools best address this surge?
• Why should schools start to think about data center services?
1 Petabyte = 1000 Terabytes

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What’s driving the bandwidth surge?
• To remain competitive in the digital-learning world, K-12
schools are developing ways to share educational
content throughout the district over their high-speed
networks by distributing:
• Live music classes
• Recorded video art lessons
• Video Chat
• Virtual Field Trips
• Other educational content
• This benefits both the schools and the students by
making these subjects available in classrooms where
the districts previously could not afford to offer them,
but it is also driving the need for higher bandwidth.
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Distributed Content & Shared Information

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What’s driving the bandwidth surge?
• Many districts are empowering their students by
opening a whole new world of learning. They are
swapping traditional, printed textbooks for tablets,
laptops, and computers, giving students the latest
technology and access to the Internet, and building
new curriculum in and around this marriage of
education and technology.
• The One-to-One Learning Initiative also requires
faster bandwidth to ensure high-speed access to the
applications and e-books. But more importantly, it
benefits the students because it gives them the tools
and technology they need for academic success.
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One to One Digital Learning Initiatives

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What’s driving the bandwidth surge?
• By putting down the No. 2 pencils and adopting
online testing, schools have faster access to results,
enabling them and parents to quickly assess
students’ progress and better understand their
strengths and areas needing additional focus.
• Whether a school follows the Common Core
curriculum or its own district- or state-mandated
testing standards, it needs a high-speed connection
to access the online content that drives the testing
and to measure online the individual student’s
performance against the standards.
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Standardized Testing

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What’s driving the bandwidth surge?
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
• As mobile device ownership becomes more pervasive, students and teachers
want to bring their own devices into classrooms. This trend has influenced
schools around the world to consider bring-your-own device (ByOD) as a way to
leverage technology for enhanced teaching and learning.

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What’s driving the bandwidth surge?
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ConnectED
“In June of 2013, the President announced an initiative called
ConnectED, and it had a bold goal: Connecting 99 percent of
American students to high-speed broadband in their classrooms
by 2018.
Today, we’re well on our way to reaching that goal. Because of
ConnectED’s public and private sector commitments, billions of
additional dollars will help wire America’s schools and libraries,
and over 3 million students, across all 50 states, are using new
educational tools that leverage higher-speed connections.”

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How do schools address the surge?
• Fiber is the highest capacity broadband technology
available today and the only commercially available
technology that is scalable enough to support the
projected bandwidth needs for the vast majority of
school districts.
• According to the Five Year Goals, the typical school
district will require 3 Gbps of Internet access. Legacy
technologies, such as copper T3s, DSL, or cable
modem, are currently limited to speeds of 100 Mbps or
less and could only support 45 - 100 students under the
Five Year Goals.
• In contrast, 100 Gbps fiber connections are
commercially available today and affordable 1-10 Gbps
connections are already in use in many school districts.
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Fiber based Ethernet
Since April 2008,
FairPoint has invested
more than one million
dollars a week to build
and support the
technology infrastructure
that underpins the
success of the region, its
businesses and families.
Fiber access speeds
ranging from 10Mb –
100Gb

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What does an average school look like?
Below is a view of three typical NH high schools including student count and current
bandwidth as well as recommended bandwidth to reach ConnectED targets
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What this reinforces is that larger schools are close to today’s target of
100K/student while smaller schools are significantly under the current target

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How do schools address the surge?
• As bandwidth demands rise, WiFi network
deployments, BYOD policies are introduced and
networks are expanding, the equipment needed
to support these needs are also rising
• Increased equipment means increased capital
expense and increased support staff or more likely,
“doing more with the same or less”
• WiFi and BYOD alone can be a full time
management role depending on reporting
capabilities and support materials
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Managing Networks
FairPoint offers Managed
Network Services that for
a fixed monthly fee can
provide the equipment,
manage and monitor the
equipment as well as
provide a managed WiFi
solution for a low monthly
fee per access point.

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Think about Data Center & Cloud Services
• With the shift to move information, learning, collaboration and testing online, the
demand for secure, reliable, cost effective computing and storage are critical
• Space should be reserved for students not data
• Centralized data centers with redundant connectivity is critical when learning
depends on access to data
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Data Center Rack Space & Cloud
OR
Your Equipment Provider Equipment
OR

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How do schools address the surge?
Limited budgets are always a consideration and moving to a high
bandwidth, digital learning environment does involve some
investment to support/update/upgrade IT infrastructure. However, the
savings that accrue from moving to mobile device based learning can
be used as a platform to offset expenses related to the transition.
Some examples are:
• Printing - if a school district could halve their printing needs by
converting to digital lessons, assignments and tests, it could realize
significant savings on ink, paper, printer, and photocopying expenses
that could be applied to supporting investment in a wireless platform
for mobile learning.
• Textbooks - schools converting from a physical textbook to an e-
book model can benefit from an increase in the quality and quantity
of accessible information, while driving down costs related to wear/
tear and content updates. iTunes university recently saw its one
billionth download and has over 75,000 education apps – providing
an abundance of resources for students and teaching staff alike.
• Facilities – as the student population continues to grow, schools will
need more space for classrooms. as physical book inventories are
replaced with digital content, schools can convert prime space
formerly occupied by libraries to classrooms without impacting limited
capital budgets.
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Limited Budgets

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How do schools address the surge?
• There is a shift in the percentage of today’s E-Rate funding being spent on legacy
technologies that do not directly support student learning in the classroom.
• Consequently, a significant opportunity exists to provide schools and libraries with more
broadband funding by continued transitioning of the E-Rate program’s resources to focus
on broadband in a timely and thoughtful way.
• This will enable the greatest number of schools and libraries to meet the ConnectED goals
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E-Rate
Spend of IT Dollars
E-Rate

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