The Southern Virginia Education Network (SVEN) [being built by Public Education of South Central Virginia for Public Education of South Central Virginia on the MBC’s fiber backbone was able to help the Halifax County Public Schools as Network Virginia had a router outage on SprintLink resulting in their having no internet connectivity yesterday. HCPS called with a request for help yesterday morning.

The SVEN Team at the HEC was able to reroute the HCPS gateway over the SVENetwork and Glen Ratliff of GCR Company (a locally owned ISP in South Boston) donated bandwidth access to the Internet. This was not a perfect solution as HCPS’s external pointers were still pointed to Sprintlink but, HCPS reported today that the temporary solution meet the needs of the majority of their users including SOL practice testing from the DOE website. With a full rollout of SVEN, redundant access to the internet could be solved.

For information on SVEN please contact any of the following:

Maurice A. Ferrell
Chief Information Officer (CIO)
Institute for Advanced Learning & Research 150 Slayton Avenue Danville, VA 24540
ph:434 766-6700 x6724
fax: 434 791-3279
maurice.ferrell@ialr.org

W. H. (Bill) Wilson
Senior Technology Engineer
Longwood University:
Institute for Teaching Through Technology and Innovative Practices (ITTIP)
Southside Virginia Regional Technology Consortium (SVRTC)
Voice: 434-517-0717 Fax: 434-517-0939
mbill@ittip.usa
The Institute is an Outreach of Longwood University. Longwood is the fiscal agent for the Institute and SVRTC.