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Doing some quick math based on [[Argentina Statistics]], at the national level you have 5,151,856 kids in [[Argentina Statistics#Alumnos por Provincia|K-12 grades]] in 27,888 [[Argentina Statistics#Establecimientos por Provincia|public shools]], giving ~180 laptops / school (or ~3 servers / school). |
Doing some quick math based on [[Argentina Statistics]], at the national level you have 5,151,856 kids in [[Argentina Statistics#Alumnos por Provincia|K-12 grades]] in 27,888 [[Argentina Statistics#Establecimientos por Provincia|public shools]], giving ~180 laptops / school (or ~3 servers / school). |
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Does the internet connection scale for larger schools ? Does a 60 student school have the same access |
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as a 240 student school ? |
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Good or bad? Don't know. |
Good or bad? Don't know. |
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Revision as of 19:47, 1 February 2007
Scalability
Doing some quick math based on Argentina Statistics, at the national level you have 5,151,856 kids in K-12 grades in 27,888 public shools, giving ~180 laptops / school (or ~3 servers / school).
Does the internet connection scale for larger schools ? Does a 60 student school have the same access as a 240 student school ?
Good or bad? Don't know.
- PRO
- Multiple servers could improve coverage, redundancy and available storage.
- CON
- Higher costs per school (depending on alternatives), multiple failure points and/or administration.
As a note specific to Argentina, the educational system is split in 4 three-year chunks: EGB I, EGB II, EGB III + polimodal (being only EGBs compulsory). Multiple servers could support 'administrative' layers or frontiers between these different 'levels'—acting like some 'sub-network' division.
This is just a guess-list. Please add at will. PoV is subjective... so a con may sometimes be thought of as a pro depending on the overall context. For example, redundancy could be thought as good if it's simple and straight forward out-of-the-box(es), but if to administer the multiple servers you must do it in a totally different way than when you just needed one, then it can be thought as a con given the penalty to growth.