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www. uni-c. dk Connecting schools in Denmark Kurt Bøge Head of Support department

www. uni-c. dk Questions • What do the schools need? • Are they ready to be connected? • Do they have the internal ressources?

www. uni-c. dk What do the schools need? • Everything • Security • Services • Support

www. uni-c. dk Are (were) they ready to be connected? • Techinally ready • Existence of LAN • Technical skills • Organisationally ready • Possibilities / opportunities

www. uni-c. dk Do they have the internal ressources • For what? • Establish and maintain it-security • Establish and maintain services (mail, webservice) • General trouble-shooting

www. uni-c. dk What really matters is • Identity – creating a feeling of being part of a community • Organisation – do you have an organisation behind the network that knows the schools, what they need now and in the near future • Not the physical network

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www. uni-c. dk Sektornet – the danish way • Sektornet is an offer to all schools from the danish ministry of education • All schools? • • • ’Grundskoler’ [primary+ lower secondary] Upper secondary Vocational schools Teacher training colleges Universities

www. uni-c. dk Universities? ? ? • Only for administrative purposes • The universities have their own network – Danish research network • The reseach network and Sektornet is two separate networks

www. uni-c. dk What is Sektornet • Basic network and security • Network services • Support

www. uni-c. dk Basic network and security • Homogenous solution • One and only one supplier of bandwith • 32 kb - ? • One manufacturer of equipment –Cisco • One routerbased preconfigured firewall • Advanced and higly flexible • Maintained centrally • Based on the schools needs and wished

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www. uni-c. dk Network services (basic services) • Skole. Kom – a nation-wide e-mail and conferencing system • Web-hotel – an opportunity for the schools to make web presentations of the schools available to others. • FTP – file transfer opportunity • News – access to worldwide newsgroups • Mail*Hub – exchange and conversion between different mail systems • DNS – domain name service; usually described as conversion between symbolic names and IP addresses

www. uni-c. dk Network services (added services) • • • The Toolbox Abuse & CERT EMU

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www. uni-c. dk Support • Differents schools have different needs for support • Lack of skills at many schools • Economic considerations

www. uni-c. dk Establishment support – only 1. year • Training – sektornet basic course • Written information materials • Meetings

www. uni-c. dk Operational support • ’ …the users should experience the accessibility to the network as a matter of course’ • Error detection • Problem solution • Processing of administrative orders • …

www. uni-c. dk The future • Could we merge (parts of) Sektornet and the Danish Research network?