Consolidating Internet Access to one Central Office

Hi,
We have 5 school buildings in our district, we are looking at centralizing our inter service to one location and using the a GB WAN line to each location to provide Internet Access. In doing so we will be cutting down our yearly operating cost of support and gaining more Internet speeds.
Anyone have a negatives on this ????
Thanks

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Permalink Reply by Paul Anderson on April 14, 2009 at 8:36pm

This is the way our school district has it (and a lot more of them that I know of). The only down side might be if the one internet link goes down, all internet in the district is down. But for us that has not really posed any major problems. Otherwise using some of the money that you spending now, you could probably triple your internet connection and get faster and better internet service for all your schools. I think you are definitely making a wise move!

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Permalink Reply by Mike Wentland on April 15, 2009 at 6:40am

That's Paul,

The monies that we are going to save, after the initial upfront cost will allow us to increase to 50MB verses 16MB.

Thanks Again for your input.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Wentland on April 22, 2009 at 10:43am

We are looking to install Fios 50/20 for about $240 a month, Our T1 line alone is costing us $400 pr/mnth. With Comcast we only pay $25 pr/mnth for all five buildings. I cam going to keep Comcast and increase the speed along with a new centralized sonicwall that will have the capability to host both suppliers

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Permalink Reply by Dan Maas on April 22, 2009 at 9:19pm

No real downside if done well. Redundancy is essential, but the opportunities for virtualization, aggregation of services and focusing support are all winning reasons.