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WAN User Requirements
The Washington School District Wide Area Network (WAN) will be based on a two-layer hierarchical model.
Three regional Hubs is located at the District Office/Data Center, Service Center and Shaw Butte Elementary School for the purpose of forming a fast WAN core network. School locations will be connected into the WAN core Hub locations.
TCP/IP and Novel IPX will be the only networking protocols that will be acceptable to traverse the district WAN. All other protocols will be filtered at the individual school sites using access routers. High-end, powerful routers will also be installed at each WAN core location. Access to the Internet or any other outside network connections will be provided through the District Office/Data Center through a Frame Relay WAN link. No other connections will be allowed to provide a better security of the network structure.