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Progress on bandwidth upgrades in NYC schools
6:30:50
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Intekhab Shakil, Chief Information Officer at the DOE, provides an update on the ongoing process of upgrading bandwidth in NYC schools. He explains the current status and future plans for ensuring adequate internet capacity across the school system.
- 1250 out of 1350 sites have completed bandwidth upgrades
- Upgrades are ongoing, with about 20 schools upgraded each month
- All eligible locations can now access 1 GB internet bandwidth
- 96 lease locations with less than 5-year leases are not yet eligible for upgrades
Intekhab Shakil
6:30:50
As we speak, the test is going on, and glad to pass on the message that it's going great.
6:30:58
We have no problem whatsoever regarding bandwidth with online testing.
6:31:05
With regards to upgrading our bandwidth, we are constantly upgrading our schools every month.
6:31:12
As of this month, we have completed about twelve fifty upgrades out of thirteen fifty sites.
6:31:20
It's a constant process.
6:31:21
We are constantly every month we have about 20 schools that we upgrade.
6:31:29
The only schools that we could not upgrade are 100 lease locations, about 96 lease locations, which have leased less than five years.
6:31:38
Those are the ones we could not upgrade yet because it's not capital eligible.
6:31:43
Apart from that, we have upgraded all the sites in the last capital plan, and now we are starting to upgrade the ones that we did five years ago.
6:31:51
It's like painting the bridge all over again.
6:31:53
It's a constant progress.
6:31:56
Every location that we have is eligible for one GB internet bandwidth.
Sebastian
6:32:01
Schools
Intekhab Shakil
6:32:03
that have large enrollment and large bandwidth are prioritized first.
6:32:09
And as of right now, we do not have any school which is pending requests for bandwidth upgrade.