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SWITCH ETHERNET PROJECT

The District and AT&T are working on a project to upgrade our school and site
network from 1GB to 10GB. This project includes two separate diverse fibers
from each school’s Main Data Room to two separate AT&T Central Offices. The
configuration helps our schools and students maintain network connectivity in
the event of an outage by having each fiber come into our schools from two
different locations.

In addition, the District upgraded the Data Center network from eight 10GB
connections to eight 100GB for FHESC and South ITV Data Centers.
This project will enhance the network experience with the bandwidth increment,
allowing the school to perform Chromebook upgrades while students and staff
continue their daily business uninterrupted. It also provides diversity connectivity
to minimize outages throughout the school year.

MIGRATING TO WINDOWS 11

The move to Windows 11 across the District is gaining momentum. Efforts
by School Techs and IT to update eligible devices have helped to bring us to
25,000 Windows 11 machines. As we start the 2024-2025 school year, please
remember this will be the last year that Windows 10 will be available for use.
We are on track to achieve our goal of zero active Windows 10 devices by
August 2025. This goal is set to beat Microsoft’s retirement of Windows 10 on
October 14, 2025. All newly purchased devices will be delivered with Windows
11 preinstalled. The Applications Services team will continue to monitor and
assist with updating devices throughout the year.

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