On this page you can information for suppliers about the National Education Network trial extension.

Workshops for suppliers

Suppliers of network infrastructure and networking education services were invited to a workshop to discuss the implementation of the NEN trial extension. Workshops were held in the following centres:

• Northshore, Monday 15 February
• Christchurch, Tuesday 16 February
• Wellington, Wednesday 17 February
• Nelson, Monday 22 February
• Palmerston North, Tuesday 2 March

At this workshops REANNZ outlined the project scope and the expected timeframe for the procurement of key network components, including:

• provision of cluster/town mass access Layer 3 network devices (distribution routers)
• provision of school edge Layer 3 devices
• regionally based support (network cluster wranglers)
• Commodity Internet
• Commodity Internet filtering
• local access services between the KAREN Point of Presence (PoP) and the schools with a target minimum of 100Mb/s symmetric Ethernet
• installation and configuration services to ensure the service is connected and configured properly in each school
• expansion of KAREN to new PoPs for rural clusters, if required

Resources and progress reports

Visit the NEN page on the KAREN wiki for resources including copies of the presentations given by Laurence and Douglas at the first round of briefings. Here you will also find implementation progress reports.

NEN page on the KAREN wiki

Related information

Implementation Manager for NEN trial extension joins REANNZ 19 January 2010

Vacancies (2): NEN team 18 December 2009

NEN extension: supplier communication 7 December 2009

Education Gazette article: New programme to set up ultra-fast broadband 7 December 2009

Vacancy: Implementation Manager 4 December 2009

Updated 5 March 2010