2 Sites Connectivity/Firewall/Filtering/Telephony

[haggistheoriginal]

Hiya everyone

 

 

 

I have a requirement for new connectivity, firewall/filtering and telephony to my existing site and a new (smaller)

 

Currently have RM for Connectivity and filtering/firewall,

 

 

 

Can I get from the community recommendations for:

 

good school ISPs and ones to super avoid!

 

what filtering and firewall solutions you are using, especially when moving away from RM!!! Smoothwall seems to be one of the leaders in the market for filtering but open to others

 

Modern telephone systems that you are using in school

 

 

 

We are a smallish but expanding LA SEN Foundation School

 

 

 

Site 1 - 4-16

 

165 Pupils, 110 Staff, 360ish Devices

 

 

 

Site 2 - 16+

 

80ish Pupils, <55 Staff, devices unknown

 

 

 

Cheers All!

 

 

 

Dave

[Wave9_Lee]

Hiya everyone

 

 

 

I have a requirement for new connectivity, firewall/filtering and telephony to my existing site and a new (smaller)

 

Currently have RM for Connectivity and filtering/firewall,

 

 

 

Can I get from the community recommendations for:

 

good school ISPs and ones to super avoid!

 

what filtering and firewall solutions you are using, especially when moving away from RM!!! Smoothwall seems to be one of the leaders in the market for filtering but open to others

 

Modern telephone systems that you are using in school

 

 

 

We are a smallish but expanding LA SEN Foundation School

 

 

 

Site 1 - 4-16

 

165 Pupils, 110 Staff, 360ish Devices

 

 

 

Site 2 - 16+

 

80ish Pupils, <55 Staff, devices unknown

 

 

 

Cheers All!

 

 

 

Dave

 

Hi Dave,

 

I Appreciate you are looking for a community response rather than providers, but if you'd like a quote and info from us, I can turn that around for you today. If you search Wave 9 on the forum, you will hopefully see we have a good reputation..

 

Drop me a mail anytime and I'll put something together for you.

 

cheers

[SchoolsBroadband]

Hiya,

 

we specialise in multi-site solutions and give you a WAN as standard with firewall and filtering included if you wish. We've also been delivering hosted VoIP solutions for 12 years so consider ourselves experts in that field.

 

Happy to send you a no obligation quote too and get you a call with one of our lovely tech people to discuss how it all works.

 

Thanks

 

Dave

 

 

Hiya everyone

 

 

 

I have a requirement for new connectivity, firewall/filtering and telephony to my existing site and a new (smaller)

 

Currently have RM for Connectivity and filtering/firewall,

 

 

 

Can I get from the community recommendations for:

 

good school ISPs and ones to super avoid!

 

what filtering and firewall solutions you are using, especially when moving away from RM!!! Smoothwall seems to be one of the leaders in the market for filtering but open to others

 

Modern telephone systems that you are using in school

 

 

 

We are a smallish but expanding LA SEN Foundation School

 

 

 

Site 1 - 4-16

 

165 Pupils, 110 Staff, 360ish Devices

 

 

 

Site 2 - 16+

 

80ish Pupils, <55 Staff, devices unknown

 

 

 

Cheers All!

 

 

 

Dave

[Rob_D]

We're not multi-site. But our firewall/webfilter is up for renewal soon and we're looking at Fortinet, Sophos and Smoothwall.

 

We use Horizon/Gamma for our phones. Never had any real problems with it, and because it's cloud it will work multi-site fine. During lockdown some of the staff just took their (polycom) handsets home.

Edited April 28, 2022 by Rob_D

[Scifigirl]

Hi LA Foundation special school. We are kinda the same as you - but our main site is over 350 pupils now and over200 staff, our smaller 16+ is around the same as yours but much smaller ratio of staff.

We are with Oakford FTP with filtering built in at the main site

other site has FTC.

 

 

Our main site phone system wouldnt expand to the other site, so they have a small 3CX system running and supported by the 3rd party, although we are looking at renewing the main site next July to a hosted system.

 

Give me a shout if you want more info.