When should multiple grade level schools get on the new system? Should they start with the elementary grades?
Schools that have more than one grade level grouping that includes elementary grades (e.g. MLC, Winterhaven) should plan to begin to use the new system when the elementary schools go live. • Will my Internet connection be improved? When? IT is currently improving data communications for each school in the district in a project unrelated to eSIS. Data communications has two components: external communications (between the school and the Internet or the eSIS server), and internal communications (within the school building). For external communications every school will receive at least 1.5 MB connectivity (a.k.a. a full T-1) to the Internet, and high schools will receive more. For internal communications every school will change from a hub configuration to a switched environment (an explanation of this involves too much detail to explain here, the gist of it is that the speed of internal data communications will increase). Each school will also house a server to allow for better printer
