EQ Overlay Presentation

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The story so far

• European Internet appliance business founded in
  January 1998
• Proven product - European market leader IDC
  Gartner
• 20,000 Equiinet appliance installations
  worldwide
• Experienced and successful management team

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Equiinet Internet server appliances

• Secure Internet access for small and medium size
  businesses with low cost VPN based corporate
  networking for multi-site organisations
• Total Internet protection for the enterprise
  anti-spam anti-virus URL filtering
• Smart Caching sophisticated content delivery
  and bandwidth optimisation for schools and
  businesses

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Equiinet Internet server appliances

• Secure Internet access for small and medium size
  businesses with low cost VPN based corporate
  networking for multi-site organisations
• Total Internet protection for the enterprise
  anti-spam anti-virus URL filtering
• Smart Caching sophisticated content delivery
  and bandwidth optimisation for schools and
  businesses

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SentryPilot total Internet protection

• Anti SPAM
• SpamCop
• Spam Assessment
• Anti Virus
• Powered by Sophos
• Email downloads
• Access Controls and Filtering
• Powered by N2H2
• Easy to install manage

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Equiinet Internet server appliances

• Secure Internet access for small and medium size
  businesses with low cost VPN based corporate
  networking for multi-site organisations
• Total Internet protection for the enterprise
  anti-spam anti-virus URL filtering
• Smart Caching sophisticated content delivery
  and bandwidth optimisation for schools and
  businesses

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NGfL progress in the England

• 10 RBCs created to provide cost effective
  broadband for schools
• All schools to be connected to 2Mbit/s or above
  by 2006
• Large funding for Curriculum On-line
• Assumption that circuits would support video
  conferencing e-learning email etc..

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Bandwidth its never enough!

• 2Mbit/s supports
• 6 pupils streaming a half decent video
• 3 pupils streaming decent video
• Primary School Specification
• 300 pupils, 18 PC ratio 38 screens
• 50 browsing standard pages, no video
• Bandwidth requirement 2.27Mbit/s

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CachePilot Smart Caching and Content Delivery
Appliance
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Bandwidth enhancing techniques

• Pre-cache and auto-update all required web sites
  and pages - dynamically cache all others
• Store and serve e-learning content from a
  multitude of providers
• Store and serve all multimedia-rich learning
  materials locally
• Use available bandwidth for auto-updating at
  off-peak times

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CachePilot and theres more!

• Load and serve CDs locally
• Control web access even for cached pages
• Act as local Intranet server
• Manage software licences
• Optionally update from LEA server

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CachePilot Smart Caching and Content Delivery
Appliance
Internet
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CachePilot
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CachePilot Complete Solution
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CachePilot low cost of ownership

• Easy to install
• Simple to configure
• Auto-updates operating system
• Auto-updates new features
• Auto-updates support for new content providers

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Selecting and funding the solution

• BECTa specification for caching and content
  deployment
• Funding using 601a/b
• All schools to have system by 2006
• Available from content providers funded with
  E-tokens

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CachePilot Content Partners
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CachePilot Users

• Selected for
• LGfL
• NGfL
• EMBC
• Many LEAs including
• York City
• Milton Keynes
• Tameside
• Staffordshire
• Pilots with
• E2Bn
• SWGFL
• Hampshire

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Equiinet Cisco

• Recent announcement of an association
• Working together in the education market
• Complimentary product offerings

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Equiinet Cisco strengths

• Highly scalable solutions
• Centralised management
• XML manifests
• Strong CDN reputation
• Streaming Media
• High performance
• Education price 1100
• Content filtering integration
• Factory customisation
• Market leader in caching for
• education
• Small product size - low noise
• Cisco compatible!

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CachePilot in education

• Powerful caching and content delivery engine
• Many content providers are partners
• Unique relationship with Cisco
• The most widely used product in the UK
• A huge emerging market

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