RE: [seul-edu] New High School

[Chris Hedemark <hedemark@bops.com>]

What area are you in?  A lot of the networking consultants are limited to
certain regions.


Chris Hedemark

-----Original Message-----
From: Fr. Raphael Davis, O. Praem. [mailto:FrRaphael@excite.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 11:38 PM
To: seul-edu@seul.org
Subject: [seul-edu] New High School


I have just become the IT Director of a school that is hoping to open a
brand new high school within 2 years.  I just began this job about two
months ago and I unfortunately have limited networking experience.  I need
to come up with a detailed list in a hurry to apply for e-rate funding. 
Does anyone have suggestions on different companies to contact besides Cisco
and Marconi for possible networking solutions?  I would like to have a
network that could support up to 200 simultaneous video streams.  (I am
dedicated to trying to design the new school so that it will be able to meet
future needs as much as possible.)  I am very much interested in at least
doing a partial implementation of Linux within the new network do to its
price, security, reliability and how much you can simply do by yourself if
you are willing to put in the effort.

Also if anyone has suggestions on key components of what I should be
including in the infrastructure of the network I would be interested.  I
will be running either fiber or ATM inbetween building on the campus.  I am
currently planning on having switches from Cisco or Marconi that are Voice,
Video and Data aware, two servers (one of the them being the backup), two
firewalls (again another backup), a video server that can handle 60 video
streams with approximately 300 gig storage, a web server, 1 router for our
data T1 and another router (at least I think its called a router) for a T1
that will carry our voice lines.  Anything else???  I will most likely end
up using Linux in the future on many of the desktops in the classrooms
besides for the servers, firewalls and web server.  What else would you
suggest.  (Forgot to add we will most likely go Voice/IP or Voice over ATM.)

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Also are there any Linux solutions available for doing video streaming
and/or Voice/IP?

                    Fr. Raphael Davis





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