The net behind the students

Students at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology have access to top-notch networks. The Alexandria, Va., school boasts 100M bit/sec connections for all its workstations, which are used to analyze and model data for classes ranging from CAD to geosciences. Altogether, the school's LAN has 1,000 nodes.

The school has three T-1 connections to the Internet and a link to Internet2, a high-speed backbone operated by the nation's colleges and universities. A T-3 connection, which was eliminated a year ago because of budget cuts, will be re-installed this summer.

A wireless LAN lets students roam the school using laptops, but most of the computer science aficionados prefer speedier wired connections. Students who volunteer in the Computer Systems Lab also can get experience with H.323 videoconferencing and ATM.

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Students at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology have access to top-notch networks. The Alexandria, Va., school boasts 100M bit/sec connections for all its workstations, which are used to analyze and model data for classes ranging from CAD to geosciences. Altogether, the school's LAN has 1,000 nodes.

The school has three T-1 connections to the Internet and a link to Internet2, a high-speed backbone operated by the nation's colleges and universities. A T-3 connection, which was eliminated a year ago because of budget cuts, will be re-installed this summer.

A wireless LAN lets students roam the school using laptops, but most of the computer science aficionados prefer speedier wired connections. Students who volunteer in the Computer Systems Lab also can get experience with H.323 videoconferencing and ATM.

Read more about lans & wans in Network World's LANs & WANs section.