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Connecting schools in Denmark

Kurt Bøge Head of Support department

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Questions

• What do the schools need?• Are they ready to be connected?• Do they have the internal ressources?

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What do the schools need?

• Everything• Security• Services• Support

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Are (were) they ready to be connected?

• Techinally ready• Existence of LAN• Technical skills

• Organisationally ready• Possibilities / opportunities

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Do they have the internal ressources

• For what?• Establish and maintain it-security• Establish and maintain services (mail, webservice)• General trouble-shooting

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What really matters is

• Identity – creating a feeling of being part of a community

• Organisation – do you have an organisation behind the network that knows the schools, what they need now and in the near future

• Not the physical network

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Sektornet – the danish way

• Sektornet is an offer to all schools from the danish ministry of education

• All schools?• ’Grundskoler’ [primary+ lower secondary]• Upper secondary• Vocational schools• Teacher training colleges• Universities

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Universities???

• Only for administrative purposes• The universities have their own network –

Danish research network• The reseach network and Sektornet is two

separate networks

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What is Sektornet

• Basic network and security• Network services• Support

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Basic network and security

• Homogenous solution • One and only one supplier of bandwith

• 32 kb - ?

• One manufacturer of equipment –Cisco• One routerbased preconfigured firewall

• Advanced and higly flexible• Maintained centrally• Based on the schools needs and wished

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Network services (basic services)

• SkoleKom – a nation-wide e-mail and conferencing system• Web-hotel – an opportunity for the schools to make web

presentations of the schools available to others.• FTP – file transfer opportunity• News – access to worldwide newsgroups• Mail*Hub – exchange and conversion between different mail

systems• DNS – domain name service; usually described as

conversion between symbolic names and IP addresses

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Network services (added services)

• The Toolbox• Abuse & CERT• EMU

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Support

• Differents schools have different needs for support

• Lack of skills at many schools• Economic considerations

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Establishment support – only 1. year

• Training – sektornet basic course• Written information materials• Meetings

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Operational support

• ’ …the users should experience the accessibility to the network as a matter of course’

• Error detection• Problem solution• Processing of administrative orders• …

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The future

• Could we merge (parts of) Sektornet and the Danish Research network?