http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/090308-punahou-sudents-laptop.html By Ellen Messmer Network World 09/03/2008 Punahou School in Honolulu has moved into the networking vanguard since presidential candidate Barack Obama graduated from the K-12 school in 1979. The private school's 45 buildings are now connected via a fiber backbone and point-to-point laser system for short-range wireless communications, with Cisco switches and a voice-over-IP system for 500 phones, all installed in just the last two years. The 76-acre campus also is Wi-Fi enabled. Except for the very youngest of Punahou's 3,700 students, most attending the school have a laptop assigned to them at the start of the school year, and are given strict instructions that it's intended for academic purposes, not fun and games. "We have an acceptable-use policy and students have to sign it, and sometimes parents do, too," says David Parrish, chief architect of the IT network at Punahou. (Yes, if Barack Obama were in high school there now, he'd have to sign it, too, to use the school computer and network.) [...] __________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2008 - Malaysia! With a new triple-track conference featuring 4 keynote speakers and over 35 international experts, this is the largest network security event in Asia and the Middle East! http://conference.hackinthebox.org/hitbsecconf2008kl/Received on Fri Sep 05 2008 - 02:42:15 PDT
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