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Charter Business and the Past, Present & Future of Technology for K-12

Charter Business and the Past, Present & Future of Technology for K-12. GAETEC. Once in a Generation Shift in Education. Remember When? Acceleration of Change Future: Building in Scalability. Remember (5 Years Ago) When…. 1-2 IT folks could support a school?

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Charter Business and the Past, Present & Future of Technology for K-12

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  1. Charter Business and the Past, Present & Future of Technology for K-12 GAETEC

  2. Once in a Generation Shift in Education Remember When? Acceleration of Change Future: Building in Scalability

  3. Remember (5 Years Ago) When… • 1-2 IT folks could support a school? • Only the staff needed the Internet? • Students and parents had to wait for the mail to know grades? • 1 T1 and some voice lines sufficed?

  4. Meanwhile Every other industry was leveraging technology Worker productivity increased 254% from 1948-2011 primarily through technology

  5. Then came January 9th, 2007… • And with it, the consumerization of IT and the BYOD explosion that followed • Consumers, Workers & Students began dictating to IT what they will use, when they will use it & why they will use it • The number of devices connected to IP networks will be nearly three times as high as the global population in 2016. • PC-originated traffic will grow at a CAGR of 28 percent, while TVs, tablets, smartphones, and business Internet machine-to-machine (M2M) modules will have growth rates of; • 42 percent, 116 percent, 119 percent, and 86 percent, respectively.

  6. Does Your Network Traffic Growth Look Like Ours?

  7. Are your policies, systems and network ready? Instagram video becomes #1 traffic on Internet on day 1 of release iOS 7 doubles traffic within minutes of release

  8. And Now… Demand for Technology is Exploding in K-12 • BYOD • WIFI • Cloud Reliance • Digital Text books • What can you add? Funding is running Low IT skills and resources are scrambling

  9. And That Leaves You… Because EVERYONE Uses Technology… Everyone is pressuring Education to deliver Technology in the Classroom

  10. So What’s a School to Do? Understand available funding Review current data capabilities Review current skills of IT Learn from Other Industries Find Reliable Providers who have been there / done that • And will be with you for years to come Begin Building for Today and the Future

  11. Charter’s Experience with our K-12 Customers 1Gbps is the new 100Mbps Cloud connectivity (Ethernet) Connectivity to i2 Significant increase in IT demand

  12. Identifying the Right Bandwidth Partner • What to look for: • Find providers that have been in business and will be around to grow with you • Multiple backbone providers • Access is more reliable and robust • Providers with direct peering • E-rate eligible Providers • Providers that can facilitate quick growth • Reliable, carrier-class NOC support • Call or visit their NOC before you buy • Redundancy (if needed) - Not eligible for E-rate funding

  13. We hope you enjoyed this GaETC session. Please give your feedback at www.gaetc.org/evaluate

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