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Hi,

My name is Joe Kern.  I am the Systems Administrator
for the Common Knowledge - Pittsburgh Project (CKP).

I'd like to provide a little of the details of the services
that we are providing for the Pittsburgh Public School (PPS)
district.

PPS consists of 89 Schools.  Within the next two months,
CKP will have provided LAN access for twenty schools.
An additional 40+ sites have some form of dial-up
modem pool access.  PPS is providing LAN access to
5 other schools, leaving approximately 25 PPS schools
without any internet access.  We expect this number
to drop to nearly zero by the time the CKP project
completes in early 1998.

CKP provides a dial-up modem pool of 90, 28.8 kbs modems.
24 of these modems are made available during business
hours and are predominately used by the school libraries.
Currently, we have approximately 3,000 staff accounts
and 1500 student accounts.

We are using UNIX servers, predominantly running on
Pentium Personal Computers.  Some of our more popular services
consists of: email, WWW serving, WWW page creation,
UNIX accounts, telnet access, mailing-lists, newsgroups,
and print serving.

I think it is safe to say that we have been pleased with
our UNIX servers and their ability to provide our user base
with some advanced features for a relatively small dollar
investment.

I'd be interested in hearing about any other experiences 
with typical services that are being provided and implementation
methods (e.g. Microsoft Windows NT).

Thanks,

jk

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