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Kemper Porter
Network Administrator
Jackson Public Schools |
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 efore we put an infrastructure out there, we planned. We identified the needs, found the applications that we think will solve the needs, and then found the infrastructure that will support those applications.
Teaching with technology requires real-time reliability -- we can't afford to lose an instructional hour. So we need absolute confidence and superior monitoring tools.
It's got to be robust: carry parents' phone calls, transport financial data, transfer employment records, and deliver a televised frog dissection. It's got to be reliable because approximately 32,000 students and 4,200 employees will count on using it -- real-time. It has to be secure: personal records and financial records don't need to be in the wrong hands. It has to be flexible: different kinds and amounts of information will move in many directions day and night. It has to be scaleable: school districts, like the kids and communities they serve, change and grow over time.
We needed a system that would support voice, video, and data, all on the same network. That calls for ATM: asynchronous transfer mode. This is a very sophisticated network. All that, up and running within a three-month window. I need partners I can trust. These folks are great. This is what they do for a living.
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