Chockster

We're steadily replacing ours with full net 2 plus maglocks. The cost of the new one is outweighed by the replacements we've needed to do. For light traffic office areas they're fine, but as soon as students get their hands on them they don't last.

We'd need triple the budget to even get near the DFE standards. 40gig interconnects and dual fibre runs are a pipe dream (and in a building from 1958, there are a lot of pipes to get in the way.) I'd love to think they were being aspirational, but fear it's just so they can say "that cyber attack was your fault, as you didn't keep up to our specs" and wipe their hands of any responsibility.

Anyone got any suggestions for a SIP provider for 3CX? I'm fed up with our phone service provider (no audio on our phone calls today for instance) and would be much happier doing things myself.

I've been really happy with our VeryPC Aspect All-in-Ones. Their service for repairs and spares can't be faulted, and the pricing is great. It is heartbreaking when someone breaks a screen though, as besides the cost you're down a whole PC, so that's something to bear in mind.

It turns out that locker have their own license and it was available on their help pages all along, so I needn't have started DIYing it. It works a treat. It's hard to get used to companies with decent support sites - I went off on my own before checking. Cheers to Alawil for the help, even though we ultimately didn't use have to use it.

Yeah, we need the license, locker requires access to paxtonserver:8080. Any hints on getting one sorted without an installer account would be gratefully received!

Trying to set up the net2/locker connect link to create users. We've got web/app access setup already, is the API stuff separate? or do need an API license as well?

That stack is just just what we're looking at too. We've already got the Wifi so it seems a no brainer. I'm fed up with persuading a 10 year old netgear m6100 to update without it falling over. Please keep us posted on Unifi as a core solution - are you happy with it so far?

We do the occasional charge for students on request. It's mostly because their travel passes are all on their phones these days.

I've been putting it off for a few weeks after getting the invite via mail. Must get it done as I do feel the difference between what the DFE standards want and what we've actually got is pretty much insurmountable, and they could do with knowing that. We haven't really been able to move closer to them since I did the last survey.

Sadly, our exams officer has just had a bereavement, so we're without her for the season. Any luck wished is most gratefully received...

We use Luxriot, with a mix of Hikvision and Axis cameras. I'd never go with a hardware NVR again, I'd much rather have the freedom to choose appropriate cameras and not be tied in to a brand.

If you've got any Cyber Insurance in place you'd also be open to them not honouring a claim if you do this without ESUs.

Could possibly be different companies? Looks like http://www.clarioncall.co.uk and http://www.clarioncomms.com are separate entities to me.

That's how I'm currently looking at it. We'll use this years budget to cover teaching PCs in classrooms, and the rest will be retired.