iDirect Case Study: Ireland's Education Network

Of late, Ireland's government decided that to grow and sustain a knowledge-based workforce, it must ensure that every school on the island was technologically proficient - beginning with universal access to broadband connectivity. To support the network's satellite component, the Irish government selected Digiweb, a broadband provider based in Dundalk, Co. Louth. Digiweb presented a plan that met HEAnet's criteria and provided rich functionality, bandwidth efficiency and ease of network management. Through iDirect's advanced Quality of Service Digiweb was able to segregate each school into its own virtual network. As a result, the Dept. of Education and Science could monitor Internet usage at every school and control access to content.