Monitoring school infrastructure: connectivity, bandwidth and content filtering

The Monitoring Experts

In this episode, Jeremy Cioara and Erik Pope of Veeya join me to discuss how monitoring helps them provide technology services to chartered schools.
Modern schools are highly connected and digitized. Students are "walking devices" (as Jeremy puts it) and the school itself has dozens of connected devices. This brings with it the need to manage the infrastructure and bandwidth capacity. Not only is it important to have a real-time view of connectivity and bandwidth usage in the school network, but you need to understand the trends over time as well to understand how to optimize and upgrade.
Then there are regulatory requirements, like the Children's Internet Protection (CIPA) laws. An example of this is the need to ensure that content filtering is not only set up, but functioning at all times.
So how does monitoring help Veeya provide services to meet these challenges? What are the top things they need to keep an eye on? How do they monitor multiple schools? From DHCP pool monitoring through to utilizing Netflow technology to watch bandwidth, Jeremy and Erik give us a glimpse of what's involved in managing educational infrastructure.
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Jeremy has also done YouTube videos about our product, Paessler PRTG: Jeremy Cioara on PRTG

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Capitole

1. Introducing Jeremy and Erik of Veeya (00:00:00)

2. Typical school infrastructure (00:03:08)

3. The challenges of student testing (00:06:32)

4. Monitoring bandwidth usage (00:09:40)

5. Managing multiple schools (00:10:55)

6. Monitoring trends over time for capacity planning (00:12:30)

7. Regulatory requirements, such as content filtering (00:14:34)

8. Telephony services (00:16:22)

9. Kids are walking devices: DHCP pool monitoring (00:18:07)

10. It's also a standard network environment (00:18:42)

11. Ensuring a smooth curbside pickup (00:20:57)