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End 2008 47% of schools still have Satellite not BB

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  • 06-11-2008 12:57am
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    Sponge Bob
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    Not as high as a few years back but this is some fukin joke of a ' knowledge economy' we have in this country :( Yesterday in the Dáil

    http://debates.oireachtas.ie/DDebate.aspx?F=DAL20081104.xml&Node=H4-1#H4-1

    Deputy Liz McManus asked the Minister for Education and Science the number of schools in the broadband for schools initiative that have satellite internet, fibre, DSL and wireless; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
    Minister of State at the Department of Education and Science (Deputy Barry Andrews):


    As of October 2008, 3,905 schools have been provided with broadband connectivity under the schools broadband access programme.


    <yadda yadda yadda>
    As the Deputy will be aware, this programme is being undertaken in partnership with industry in the context of a Government-IBEC-Telecommunications and Internet Federation, TIF, agreement to provide local broadband connectivity to schools. The programme has three elements, namely, local connectivity to schools, a national broadband network and a broadband support service desk. Schools connectivity is being routed to the Internet through a national broadband network, which is supported by HEAnet and provides centrally managed services for schools such as security, anti-spam, anti-virus and content filtering.

    </yadda yadda yadda>

    Turning to the specific question, of the 3,905 local connectivity installations, 27% or 1,051 schools, have fixed line services, 26% or 1,028 schools, have wireless services and 47% or 1,826 schools, have satellite services.



    A further 72 schools have had broadband access provided under the Hermes and advanced deployment programmes and are not included in the 3,905 schools. The split of technology services across these 72 schools is 43 fixed line services, 25 wireless services and four satellite services.


    Having regard to the usage levels observed by HEAnet, the Department has procured additional bandwidth from its two satellite providers to improve the broadband connection speeds for schools on this portion of the schools broadband network. The situation continues to be monitored closely. In addition, the Department has migrated schools to superior alternative technologies, where feasible.
    But it is obviously NOT Feasible to move 47% of our schools to :eek: superior alternative technologies, :eek: to satellite :eek: , IN 2008 :eek:


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