Cambridgeshire County Council has confirmed that that its 253 schools have been connected to full fibre broadband as part of a deal with MLL Telecom.
This is part of a council initiative to offer all maintained and academy schools in the county a replacement for existing copper and hybrid fibre internet connections with ultrafast full fibre.
The move has also included the provision of enterprise class firewalls, web filtering and antivirus software.
The implementation was carried out in nine months as part of a contract to overhaul the public services network of the EastNet partnership of public sector bodies with full fibre.
Dave Ager, operations manager for the ICT service at Cambridgeshire County Council, said the solution “ensures we can provide teachers and students with fast, reliable and secure access to the latest education support services.
“This includes secure high speed access to cloud services such as Office 365 and Google for Education benefitting those schools who have successfully obtained funding from the Department for Education (DfE) for a new digital education platform.
“In these challenging times, such cloud based remote learning solutions are increasingly necessary, allowing teachers to assign and assess work, provide feedback, communicate with staff, students and parents in real time while also facilitating collaboration between groups of pupils and teachers.”
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