This is a unique grant opportunity for Minnesota schools to work with a recognized regional company. As in previous public-private partnerships opportunities, OT's role has been one of facilitator, working with Palisade to help shape this grant program. The decision on whether to proceed with a grant application is yours. Only one application per school is permitted. Schools must complete all sections of the grant application.
Schools agree to the responsibilities listed and to meeting the technical requirements of the grant.
Selection factors include size, location of school and responses to questions. The ideal candidate to pilot PacketHound would be a school that is having problems with existing bandwidth issues, violations of acceptable or a relatively large number of computers. PacketHound deals largely with bandwidth and security issues. The ideal candidate to pilot ScreenDoor would be schools with open labs where students may be tempted to look at inappropriate Web sites. These products are capable of monitoring a single Ethernet segment where all IP traffic travels.