North Cadbury School
Somerset County Council plan to get broadband into the school in September and have told me: We are in the middle of a two-phase programme to bring broadband connections to all primary schools - N Cadbury are on our list for connection in the second phase, with a target for completion of around September this year. There are various factors which affect the timing for any individual school, and these factors affect not only the end school, but also the hub school to which they are connected.
The upshot of this complexity is that it is impossible at this stage to predict a date for any individual school.
Also worth noting is that the availability of ADSL at an exchange does not necessarily help with the provision of 'our' broadband, which is delivered via 2Mb Learning Stream private circuits using different technology to ADSL. In addition, schools are clustered round local hub sites (other schools) and communicate using a VPN (Virtual Private Network) which controls the destinations and services that they can access
If I understand your question correctly, you are asking if the local
villagers can piggy-back on the school broadband, and the answer is, unfortunately, no. Learning stream circuits are low priced circuits, specifically aimed at educational establishments, like schools and libraries, and not for use by anyone else. It would obviously be beneficial if others could make use of the service, but the contractual conditions specifically prohibit this.
BT said -
Educational establishments throughout the UK have a gateway to educational resources on the internet called the National Grid for Learning, which was launched by the Government in 1998.
BT has developed a number of products to aid the National Grid for Learning and one such product is LearningStream 2. This is a broadband service used to join up schools, colleges, libraries, Citizens Advice Bureaux, and LearningCentres at special prices. The product runs at two megabits a second and does not require an exchange to be enabled for standard ADSL broadband.
For more information, you can visit:
www.bteducation.com/prodsols/products/lrnstrm.htm
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