Access to certain elements of the Internet will be restricted. File servers are the central component of a network and provide main disk storage and the network operating system. A Novell file server has already been installed at each school. As there is currently no economical break below 250 users, this proposal calls for upgrading each school's server to be able to handle a minimum of 250 users . By the beginning of the 1994-1995 school year, all schools in the System will be wired for an information network.
All schools already have networks installed and running to some degree.
With this in place, all District facilities will be interconnected by a data communications link. This proposal envisions this link operating at 56 thousand bits per second which, given the current telephone billing rates, is the most economical rate for connection. The single connections provide all the possible services and, since other connections are not required, save money as well. A bulletin board facility is proposed to provide access from outside the network. Such a facility would allow faculty, staff, students, and parents to interact with the network, via dial-up telephone lines and modems.