Cabling is enhanced category 5 and multi-mode fiber from AMP corporation. There are twenty wiring closets located throughout our three campuses. Key servers are attached to the backbone at gigabit speed. Sixteen servers are active, most housed in the network control center at the Fieldston school. Network hubs and switches are from 3Com.
Routers are by Cisco.
Windows NT, running on Compaq Proliant servers, is the predominant network operating system, though there are a number of Macintosh servers in production. The school Intranet is run using Frontier software. Client computers consist of both Apple Macintosh and Dell personal computers. Sections of the network use wireless 11Mbps technology, for example, in the library at the Ethical Culture School. The school PBX is a Meridian system by Nortel.