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CASE STUDY
two separate local BT cabinets in different locations for
its connection,” said Johnson. “We are delivering massive
bandwidths with no leased line in site, and Kimbolton
retain the benefits of QoS and our other WAN optimisation
technologies”.
60 90 120
mbps
mbps
mbps
connection.” Commented Nick Johnson, CEO at Evolving
Networks.
As part of the upgrade to 8 ADSL lines, and to increase
the resilience in case of hardware failure, a virtualised
network function (VNF) was created on Kimbolton’s virtual
server infrastructure. Clustered over two distinct buildings in
the campus for High Availability, if the first virtual appliance
were to fail the second would kick in and keep passing data
to ensure minimum disruption to learning.
The current solution
In October 2015, with FTTC now available, a further upgrade
saw the school moving to an 8x Bonded FTTC connection,
delivering more than 400Mbps download bandwidth and
approximately 100Mbps upload bandwidth. The 8x Bonded
FTTC connection not only delivers high bandwidth capacity,
but also enhanced resilience.
“Because the campus is so large it meant that we
could add further resilience to the network by utilising
The results
Today, substantial bandwidth capacity supports the
online working of all pupils and staff via iPads, as well as a
variety of cutting edge online learning environments. The
connection supplies both the classrooms and the boardi