The Infrastructure Planning Team and the Illinois State Board of Education have determined that the Internet and its related protocols are the essential foundation for communications among all schools in the state. With the Web, images, video, voice and data are being used routinely in schools around the world.
Communications can occur among machines around the world at a variety of speeds.
Flexibility It can accommodate educational and administrative applications across the same network. The Internet is now used by major corporations as well as many small businesses worldwide. The network can grow from dial-up access to extremely high speeds based on the needs of the site. A site can have one machine or thousands of machines all connected to the network. The Internet continues to grow in the number of machines and the bandwidth that are possible.