{"id":6447,"date":"2014-03-31T11:20:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T10:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=6447"},"modified":"2014-04-01T09:34:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T08:34:03","slug":"virgin-media-business-rollout-ultra-high-speed-broadband-uk-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/03\/virgin-media-business-rollout-ultra-high-speed-broadband-uk-schools.html","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media Business to Rollout Ultra-High-Speed Broadband to UK Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cable operator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media Business<\/a> has announced that its cable and fibre optic based broadband and communications network, which since 2011 has already helped to connect more than 2,000 schools across London (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/story\/2011\/01\/28\/uk-isp-virgin-media-business-brings-superfast-broadband-to-london-schools.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), will now be deployed across the United Kingdom as part of a new deal that could be worth \u00a31 billion.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The deal with <strong>London Grid for Learning<\/strong> (LGfL), which is a consortium of local authorities and schools, means that VMB&#8217;s new IT framework will become available to <strong>23,500 schools<\/strong> across the country under a scheme called <strong>TRUSTnet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently TRUSTnet, which aims to bundle ICT infrastructure, services and content into one package, will &#8220;<em>beef up security<\/em>&#8221; for students and allow teachers to do things like collect homework via the cloud, or host parents\u2019 days via video conference.<\/p>\n<p>The deal will also give many schools access to &#8220;<em>ultra-high-speed broadband<\/em>&#8220;. The original scheme offered speeds from 10Mbps (Megabits per second) and up to 10Gbps (Gigabits), which is likely to remain the same for this national deployment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Brian Durrant, CEO of the LGfL Trust, said: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>When we established the London Grid for Learning over ten years ago, we couldn\u2019t have imagined the impact it would have in enhancing education provision in the capital region \u2013 or that we would now be making these benefits available to every school in the country. TRUSTnet creates the potential for the impact of LGfL to be felt in classrooms across the nation \u2013 not only in the services it delivers now, but by supporting innovation in schools\u2019 ICT and attainment for learners for years to come<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Mario DiMascio, VMB&#8217;s Executive Director, added: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Our children are growing up in a completely connected world \u2013 preparing for jobs that haven\u2019t been invented yet \u2013 so schools must be immersed in digital technology to prepare them for life beyond the classroom. TRUSTnet make this experience possible for every single child in the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As the UK leads the information revolution, it is this kind of investment in the next generation that will determine our future. We already have a bigger digital economy than any other developed nation, but we must continue to lead the way in education technology if we\u2019re to sustain this powerful competitive advantage in the global marketplace<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The new contract is set to run until <strong>2028<\/strong> and it&#8217;s forecast that TRUSTnet could save UK schools up to <strong>\u00a3840 million<\/strong> over the next 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>However the press release doesn&#8217;t detail how the rollout will be\u00a0handled (i.e. which areas and when etc.) or what will happen in rural areas where connectivity tends to already be poor, assuming this network will even go there.<\/p>\n<p>The 23,500 figure also suggests that several thousand schools have not been accounted for (depending upon how you categorise &#8220;schools&#8221;) and those are probably the remotest ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cable operator Virgin Media Business has announced that its cable and fibre optic based broadband and communications network, which since 2011 has already helped to connect more than 2,000 schools across London (here), will now be deployed across the United Kingdom as part of a new deal that could be worth \u00a31 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[472,475],"class_list":["post-6447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-business","tag-virgin-media"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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