Rob_D

We've just had to give the cleaners, catering staff, etc., school emails for the new online payslips County's rolling out. That will be a fun conversation in my next LM meeting.

I don't know about Arbor, but Bromcom has staff login restrictions for both specific IPs and/or at specific times so you could go so far as to say only through the school internet and during the school day, and you could have 365/google conditional access on top of that. The problem with that comes when staff want/need WfH capabilities (or to access the MIS while on a school trip), or you have staff that stay working until 2am. So you start knocking holes in the the security until you're just using regular authenticator app/token based MFA.

Out of interest, when you say "labelled" do you mean an official manufactures label/printed direct on the cable, or someone's stuck a Dymo label on it at some point?

Have you checked it is all the same cable by shinning a light down it or something?

I picked it up when it came out on DVD years ago and watched it back then but haven't in ages. Does Netflix have it now?

Zabbix might work for you. Although you'd have to have proxy servers at each site to collect data, the central server should be able ping an alert if one of the on-site proxies drops out.

IFAIK the analogue voice service is being swapped for a VOIP type system. It shouldn't effect data delivery (apart from maybe a bit more bandwidth contention as all that voice is now going down the same data trunk as your internet).

Sorry to be barer of bad news, but 31st January is only 90 days (from today). Not sure where the article got 100 days from.

I assume you mean "deep". When I did my desk I got a kitchen island worktop for the extra depth.

We've got just smoothwall at the edge and it works fine. I wouldn't have said we have a particularly complex environment, but the techs keep telling us we have too many firewall rules. We thought about splitting it and having a separate firewall, but were stopped by costs. If we did split it, we'd probably go with Fortigate or Sophos for the firewall.

Thanks, but what if I'm already a Bromcom customer and just want to test out some features without inadvertantaly breaking our staff payroll?

Does anyone know if Bromcom has a test/demo instance where I can try out features?

Good to know. Hopefully ours can last as long.

IDP S31 here too, we've got the network and double sided modules. Must have done 3-400 prints by now and still going strong (touch wood). We do all the student and staff IDs in-house and budget to replace the printer every 5 years or so.

We get ours through Southern Communications Group. Installation was a faff, but now it's in it works fine. Even with FTTP and stupidly high capacity, you're still going to get contention in heavily populated areas. So inner city schools might continue to find benefit in leased lines for a while yet.