Note from Mike Becich's Visit to BWE and
Telephone Conversation with Linda Kamzelski
February 7, 1997
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The following is provided as background information on the Bradford Woods Internet Project. Installation of telephone termination connect for the fractional T-1 line at Bradford Woods Elementary. Earlier this week, North Pittsburgh Telephone Company installed a PairGain technology HDSL termination line for the fractional T-1 connection in the communications room in the library at Bradford Woods Elementary. This is an HRE 420 unit which is an HRU 412 single slot unit with an RS-232 output. The unit has two sets of single connect lines marked RCV in a cluster with pins for CI link and MON and XMP pinouts, three of them again for CI, LIN and MON. This PairGain unit will allow for a fractional T-1 with a committed info rate (CIR) of 384K which will allow total bandwidths up to 1.5 megabytes. The output unit is an RJ-48X (NPFRHC59803) is the individual address. The cost for this is approximately $380 per month and the technology allows for a committed info rate of 384K via frame relay. The context for descriptions on this unit are North Pittsburgh Telephone Company, Scott Groner at 443-9505. He is the sales rep for the unit who was initially told by Linda Kamzelski to hold off on the install. Unfortunately, this installation was too far along in the process to stop. I spoke with Bob Soller who is a network engineer at 443-9814. I then subsequently spoke with the technical director at Allegheny Intermediate Unit who is Bill Beldham at 394-5779. He is the technical coordinator for Allegheny Intermediate Unit and handles all the network connections. Last year, they were installing 50K frame relays with Cisco 2501 routers to act as the interconnect. Background of Allegheny Intermediate Unit. Allegheny Intermediate Unit #3 services North Allegheny and handles all the special education and clearinghouse functions and special services for Northern Allegheny. The biggest part of this unit has grown over the last several years to be the network and telecommunications consulting unit and providing Internet access. They charge about $3,000 per year with an initial $200 building cost to provide 250 class C licenses for IP addresses at individual units. Last year when they offered 56 frame relay interconnects, the charge was $1,500 and with the 384K, they will charge $3,000. This, then, gives the individual units the ability to have user licenses and IP addresses up to 250. The IP's are assigned by the individual school unit. The mail handler is usually Netscape and when I inquired about what was the strongest site, I could not identify a building or unit that would represent a tech leader in this. They are currently in the process of negotiating with Allegheny Intermediate to allow the students to have e-mail accounts. |
