Digital Leased Lines

One shared T1 circuit for both data and video. This is our K20 and Internet access main connection. It is installed at Eatonville High School.

IP Connections

As of January of 2001 we have approximately 400 computer systems connected to the K20 network. Around 170 of these systems are within the administrative and high school campus domain.

Our EMS-EES domain has over 150 network connected systems.

The other 2 elementary schools make up the majority of the other connections.

Our WAN/DAN (district area network) has materialized right on schedule. All of our buildings are connected. Our high school campus has 2 main buildings and includes an administration building all connected to a fiber backbone. We've also crossed the streets with fiber connections to an alternative high school and a special services office. Fiber branches of Special Services to connect our Adult Daily Living facility. We've connected support services via coaxial thin-net. Our athletics department in the Gym and Pool areas are connected also via thin-net. We have installed aerial fiber optic cabling from our high school campus over the highway to the EES/EMS campus area where we were able to eliminate a 56k leased circuit and pick up much greater data capacity. Our new alternative middle school has a cable modem and router installed which provides higher throughput than our districts current shared T1 service.

Remote Schools Dial-Up

A local ISP has donated dial- up accounts to all of our schools.

These accounts are accessed via the PSTN over voice quality lines using 28.8 or faster modems.

Multiplexer

This system was phased out. All administrative connections to E.S.D. 112 are conducted over the K20 network now.

Local Area Networks

All schools in the district have LAN's built upon industry standard category 5

twisted pair wiring. Most of the buildings are primarily running Ethernet IEEE

802.3 running at 10mbps or 100mbps. We still have some legacy Apple LocalTalk segments in buildings running at 230kbps primarily for printers. Inter-building connectivity is accomplished using fiber optic cable (802.3 FOIRL), 10base2 coaxial cable, or 10baseT twisted pair copper wire.

Upgrade the shared T1 out to K20 Network for greater data capacity.

Possible connection to the Pierce County iNet if it makes it out our way.

Upgrade 56k circuits to T1 or better at Columbia Crest Elementary and Weyerhaeuser Elementary.

Continue to add more Ethernet switching and 100mb and beyond connections.

IP connections have increased beyond the scope of our current subnets. DHCP and proxy systems have been installed and configured and will require enhancements in the future. Additions of more filtering systems will become necessary.

Wireless systems will become more prevalent in our network and securing them will be a high priority.

Cable network systems added to our district network to take loads off of over-used K20 access.