On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:42:32 EST, ML said:
- An external Internet connection to the Internet Service Provider of at least 100 Mbps per 1,000 students/staff
30K students here, 2x10GE to the outside world.
- Internal wide area network connections from the district to each school and between schools of at least 1 Gbps per 1,000 students/staff
Not applicable when you're mostly just one campus, unless you want to discuss per-building feeds. Most of our buildings have 1 or more 1G uplinks to a 10GE core network, and some larger ones have their own 10G uplink. There's a few outlier buildings that have a dozen or so people that still have 100M uplinks.
I can tell you that no one I know in K-12 or Higher Education has the capacity for 1GE per 1000 students. Same goes for the WAN connection.
We're working on deploying 1G to the desktop. Some buildings are going faster than others - the ones we wired first are now the hardest, because there's a lot of Cat-3 in them. The later ones that already have Cat-6 will be easier. With something like 120 buildings to do, it's going to take a while.