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The Mead
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Christchurch, Dorset
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Educaon Focussed Internet
Service Provider
www.broadband4.co.uk
Hilperton and Wingfield
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River Mead School, Melksham, a newly sponsored member of the Mead
The schools all serve their individual communies whilst being
commied to the strong educaonal philosophy and valued held by the
trust.
BT Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC)
Service. Broadband4 organised
the installaon of new lines int o
each site and the provision of
the fastest FTTC Service possible
at their locaons.
Delays caused by the lack of
availability of FTTC Services for
The Mead Primary School and
Castle Mead Primary School
were overcome by delivering
our Broadband4 service as
an “overlay” to the school’s
exisng provision. Broa dband4’s
engineers used a unique method
of delivering traffic directly int o
our core network over a third
party circuit.
Broadband4
managed every
aspect of the
new
broadband
provision,
keeping us
informed at
every stage.
Broadband4 were approached to provide a connecvity soluo n
which would allow each site to communicate seamlessly, sharing
data as required and allowing staff to move bet ween sites.
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(Ethernet Access Direct) circuit to link the Hilperton and Wingfiel d
sites of the Mead Community Primary School to provide high speed
connecvity between t hem.
All sites required as much bandwidth as possible, whilst keeping
costs in check.
As the Mead Primary School and Castle Mead Primary School are
in heavily populated residenal areas, availability of FTTC Service s
was limited due to high demand. Broadband4’s unique network
n
me with no loss in service to the end user.
Broadband4’s independently owned core network allows us to
carriers. The benefit of being a carrier agnost ic network means
that Broadband4 can source the best value connecvity for an y
school. Broadband4 are also not limited to one type of broadband
provision, ensuring that service can be delivered to even the most
remote sites, using wireless and satellite services as required.
In the case of The Mead Academy Trust, all sites were in reach of
All FTTC Services was terminated
directly into Broadband4’s
MPLS Core network and traffi c
handled by our centralised
Managed Firewall and Web
Content Filtering (powered by
Lightspeed Systems).
Each site was configured wit h
Inter-site roung, to a llow data
to be shared between them. The
trust’s ICT service provider then
configured the necessa ry Acv e
Directory Trusts across each site,
to allow full user roaming.
THE RESULTS
The Mead Academy Trust now
have a robust and reliable
broadband provision allowing
staff to access ICT resource s
from whichever locaon the y
require it.
Members of the SLT are able to
move from site to site and logon
as if they were at their home site.
The Broadband4 Solution
to our ICT provision
accross the trust.

Contact us at
sales@broadband4.co.uk or visit
www.broadband4.co.uk for more
informaon
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