Just an FYI We now have a "LocalHost" server for United/Discovery Education Streaming content. All districts in Prairie Lakes, and Northwest AEA will now pull their video content from our server in Fort Dodge. This change is transparent to your users. For school districts using ICN as their Internet Service Provider should see faster load times. For districts that have other Internet Service Providers you may also see faster video response times depending on their distance to the ICN.
Also two districts have setup in-house "LocalHost" servers. Comments from one district have included "Videos play immediately, no waiting for "Buffering" to complete. If you have a lot of United/Discovery streaming traffic in your building you may want to consider Installing your own internal LocalHost equipment. There is a 1 time $600 setup fee, plus a web server at your site with 2-4 Tb of storage on a single drive. I believe there are NAS solutions for $1000-$1500 that will give you the required storage space. If you have any questions please feel free to ask _____________________________________________________________________ This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Your are asked to notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Prairie Lakes Area Education Agency. Prairie Lakes Area Education Agency accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. - _____________________________________________________________________ Scott Fosseen - Systems Engineer - Prairie Lakes AEA - http://www.aea8.k12.ia.us/tech _____________________________________________________________________ The bottom line is there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate. - Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) _____________________________________________________________________ --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ ---------------------------------------------------------
