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Whats Broadband going to do for my school?
by
Andrew Mackey
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Topics

• An overview of broadband

• Video Conferencing

• Multi-media streaming

• Digital learning content

• Authentication

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What is broadband?

• Government targets 2Mb/s broadband to primaries
  May 06

• True broadband only

Symetric - Same speed up as down!
No sharing of bandwidth
SLA for 24/7 access
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The old pipe
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The New Pipe
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Flow testing
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Video Conferencing

• Specific iniative for primaries

• Linked to Digischool program

• Portable equipment - PVX

• Schools can bid for equipment

• Dedicated friendly resource

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Amanda Gardiner
A friendly resource!
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Multi-media streaming

• Create and edit content REAL

• Stream live events and record

• Upload to share with other schools - or the
  world

• Coming soon - Searchable content library

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Digital Learning Content

• Content pre-positioning?

• Content from multiple providers

• Trial periods

• Bundles of content

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• New improved caching server

• 400Gb HDD, 3Ghz CPU, 2Gb RAM etc

Paid for Centrally

• Smartfilter 4 improved filtering,
  keywords,Google images

• Filters anonymiser sites

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Authentication

• Personalised services

Customised filtering
Auditing EU regs 14/12/05
Personal content delivery
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Shibboleth

• Privacy based authentication

• Major VLEs / apps being adapted to use
  Shibboleth

• Key strategy within Birmingham

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URLs and the like
http//www.bgfl.org/digischool http//www.bgfl.or
g/realplayer Amanda.Gardiner_at_birmingham.gov.uk