EQ Overlay Presentation

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Equiinet

• European appliance specialist founded in January
  1998
• Proven products - European market leader in field
• 20,000 NetPilot installations, 2,000 in schools
• Sales in 10 countries across Europe
• Experienced and successful management team

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Smart Server Appliances

• Secure Internet access for small and medium size
  businesses
• Low cost VPN-based corporate networking for
  multi-site organisations
• Smart Caching powerful content delivery and
  storage for schools and commercial organisations

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UK Drive Towards E-Learning

• Government committed to e-learning encouraging
  suppliers
• Suitable online content becoming available
• Broadband availability improving but still some
  problem areas
• Bandwidth-saving caching devices imperative for
  all schools, colleges etc.

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Broadband for Schools

• Regional Broadband Consortia 10 in England
• Grids for Learning NGfL, LGfL, etc
• 2-10 Mbit/s to all schools
• Curriculum Online
• E-tokens

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Will it work?

• Decreasing pupil to computer ratio target now
  for 71 ratio
• 1,200 pupils 171 PCs
• 2mb/171 12kb/sec
• Content becoming ever bigger - streaming video
  requires 1.5mb/ sec
• Some schools still use ISDN!

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CachePilot
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What CachePilot Offers

• High power large storage caching engine local
  serving of e-learning content
• Automatic and secure storage and updating of
  content
• Multicasting push-and-pull
• Ability to pre-cache
• Website filtering and recording

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Where CachePilot is Deployed
Regional Broadband Consortia
Content Providers
Curriculum Online
CachePilot Enterprise
CachePilot Schools Installations
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Smart Caching

• Pull and Push of content with pre-caching
• Multicasting - automatic FTP mirroring
• Optimising bandwidth
• Web server
• Management statistics and logs

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High Performance

• 120Gbyte (UDMA ATA133), 7,200 RPM drive
• 1Gbyte RAM
• All the required functionality
• Linux-based
• Meets and exceeds BECTA specification

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Rolling Out CachePilot

• Educational resellers - Time Education,
  Centerprise, Elonex, NTL, Cable Wireless,
  Easynet, Legend
• Content providers works with all major
  providers
• Early users Staffordshire CC, Wiltshire CC,
  Hampshire CC

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Spreading the Word
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