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Assessment of Telecommunication Services
Infrastructure
CISD is committed to providing the best technological resources
to support the instructional process. The CISD technology infrastructure is
already well prepared for computer and technology-based systems. The
district-wide building infrastructure is capable of providing broadcast video,
interactive distance learning, data, and voice resources to each classroom
within the building. Each classroom has a multimedia communications panel
configured with a backbone of coax, and 6 strands of fiber, and a category-5
twisted-pair wire home-run to the building's headend room. The headend room is
the communications hub for the building, housing all the servers,
video-distribution systems, and telecommunications equipment linking the
building's local area network to the district's wide area network.
Conroe ISD's distance learning and data communications needs are great. The
district represents a worse case scenario with regard to the development of a
wide area network that will support two-way interactive video among its
educational facilities. The district services a diverse area within two
telephone area codes, three telephone companies, and six cable companies (much
of the rural areas are without cable service). To surmount this obstacle, CISD
installed a fiber backbone network to all sites throughout CISD's 350 square miles.
Configuration
Diagram of the district wide area network technology
infrastructure.