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CONFIDENTIAL – FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY Charter Business and the Past, Present & Future of Technology for K-12 GAETEC
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Charter Business and the Past, Present & Future of Technology for K-12
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• Remember When?
• Acceleration of Change
• Future: Building in Scalability
Once in a Generation Shift in Education
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Remember (5 Years Ago) When…
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• 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?
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Meanwhile
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• Every other industry was leveraging technology
•Worker productivity increased 254% from 1948-2011 primarily through technology
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Then came January 9th, 2007…
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• 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.
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Does Your Network Traffic Growth Look Like Ours?
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Are your policies, systems and network ready?
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Instagram video becomes #1 traffic on Internet on day 1 of release
iOS 7 doubles traffic within minutes of
release
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• 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
And Now…
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•Because EVERYONE Uses Technology…Everyone is pressuring Education to deliver Technology in the Classroom
And That Leaves You…
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• 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
So What’s a School to Do?
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• 1Gbps is the new 100Mbps
• Cloud connectivity (Ethernet)
• Connectivity to i2
• Significant increase in IT demand
Charter’s Experience with our K-12 Customers
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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
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