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2 ICT in Schools A s the schools broadband scheme completes its rollout, one o the ser- vice provid- ers is already looking at what it can do next or Irish schools. Every post-primary school in the country now has high-speed broadband ollowing the comple- tion o a national rollout that has delivered 100Mbps connections to every corner o the country. Te scheme was conceived by the pre- vious government and ollowed on rom a pilot project in eight second level schools where the use o broadband was “shown to have improved both teaching and learning”. Te three-phase rollout com- menced with 200 schools in 2012 and ended in 2014 when the last o the 780 schools was given the 100Mbps connection. Run by the Department o Com- munications and deployed with the help o HEAnet, Ireland’s na- tional education and research net- work, the €40 million programme has been one o the biggest tech- nology investment in schools in recent times. “We believe that the completion o this programme represents a landmark event, and that the pro- vision o high-speed broadband to post-primary schools will have very meaningul benets or pupil learning outcomes in the years ahead,” said Ronan Byrne, HE- Anet’s chie technology ocer. “It will support the development o IC and SEM [science, tech- nology, engineering and mathe- matics] related learning in Irish post-primary schools which will ultimately deliver real benets or Irish society and its uture eco- nomic prosperity.” John Boland, HEAnet chie ex- ecutive, said that the broadband service provided to the schools is high quality with unique charac- teristics, including synchronous speeds, which diferentiate it rom other commercial oferings. “HEAnet provides proactive network management, superior service level, and zero contention, meaning a school’s broadband connection is not shared with other subscribers,” he said. “Tese characteristics enable the 100Mbps programme to ofer schools very high network avail- ability which, in turn, ofers assur- ance to schools that the broadband connection can be relied upon when incorporated in the class- room environment.” A preerred lists o suppliers or the project included AirSpeed elecom, Digiweb (now Viatel), Eircom, Enet, Imagine Communi- cations, UPC, Vodaone, and Agile Networks. Tey were invited to bid or each school tender on an individual basis, as Gavan Smyth, UPC vice-president o business services, explained. “You had to be price compet- itive, but support and technical ability were also criteria that were assessed in each bid,” he said. “And you had to deliver synchronous 100Mbps services, which means the same speed up and down.” Each provider specialises in one or more broadband technology and their bids would be based on matching one or other o them to a school’s location. UPC is unusual because it has the technical capa- bility to serve more rural locations with xed wireless microwave, as well as urban schools on the back o its bre network. In total, UPC connected 19 secondary schools as part o the scheme. “Where we couldn’t reach them with bre directly, we used licensed microwave – it delivers the same 100Mbps service, up and down, and comes in at the same price as bre,” said Smyth. “A lot o government agencies use mi- crowave where there is no bre inrastructure or DSL.” One o the UPC schools was Ad- amstown Community College in Adamstown, Co Dublin. Te school opened in September 2009 with 69 students, and has since grown to nearly 900. A greeneld school with a modern philosophy, Ad- amstown typies how important broadband has become in second- ary education. “Inormation technology a- cilities at the school are state- o-the-art, including computer tablets and broadband wireless internet access,” said Des Newton, the school’s principal. “Te school uses all the latest advanced educa- tional systems and methodologies to ensure the best possible learning experience or students.” Reinorcing the school’s high- tech credentials is an advanced design and communication graph- ics classroom and a student inor - mation database which acilitates parental access. Each pupil is is- sued with their own RFID identity card which has an e-commerce transaction capability. Specialist education technology is used in the library to enhance literacy. “A ew years ago, a school like Adamstown would have been sharing a 4Mbps or 5Mbps con- nection across all pupils, and it wouldn’t have been up to scratch,” said Smyth. “Now, with 100Mbps, 25 people in a classroom would get a pretty good experience. We can deliver speeds that support the services that next-generation stu- dents expect. We are delighted to have been involved in the project.” UPC’s education strategy doesn’t stop with the completion o the senior schools broadband scheme. Although there is no govern- ment plan to extend the scheme to primary schools, UPC already has a number o them on its books, and is looking to add more. “We are still building out our network, and looking to provide 100Mbps or aster to as many primary schools as we can,” said Smyth. Up until now, the UPC service has been about providing a “ast pipe” that stops at the router that connects into the school. Tis will change, however, because UPC acquired Ireland’s leading wi provider Bitbuzz last month. Schools are increasingly rec- ognising that wii is the next most important element in its I armoury ater broadband, con- necting multiple portable devic- es across a campus without the need or elaborate and expensive cabling. A few years ago, a school would have been sharing a 4Mbps or 5Mbps connection across all pupils. Now, with 100Mbps, 25 people in a classroom would get a pretty good experience UPC has embarked on a programme of hooking Irish schools up to higher-speed broadband, writes Ian Campbell Gavan Smyth, vice-president of business services, UPC: ‘You have to be price competitive, but support and technical ability are also criteria’ January 25, 2015 The Sunday Business Post Secondary schools up to speed
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