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BTnet for Education
BTnet benefits for Education
BTnet is a leased line internet connection that’s exclusively dedicated to your school or college. Unlike broadband, you won’t share your BTnet connection, or speed with any other schools, homes or businesses. It’s yours and yours alone, so it offers reliability you can count on. Even in the busiest periods of the academic day.
Lots of pupils online at the same time? Go for it. Whether you’re holding virtual classrooms with video calls, sending hefty files, or using cloud apps, BTnet can handle it. Whilst the restrictions of broadband mean limited upload speeds, there’s none of that with BTnet. You get the exact same speed for both upload and download. And because it’s unlimited, you can use it as much as you like.
Changing your internet speed within the capacity of your circuit is quick and easy, so you can keep it in sync with term times. When the holidays kick in, save money by reducing it. Or when exam season starts and you need more capacity, you can increase it. We call this ‘flexing’.
We know BTnet is a winner. That’s why it’s backed up by our market-leading 100% target availability SLA (Service Level Agreement). We’re confident it won’t let you down – BTnet is always on. But in the rare event that something does go wrong, we’ll give you money back service credits to say sorry. Plus our UK-based support team is here for you 24/7 – and we aim to get you back up and running within five hours.
We’ve got the perfect connection for every individual school or college. Select a 1Gbps or 10Gbps leased line circuit, then choose a wide range of speeds within that circuit to perfectly match your needs. And that’s only what you’ll pay for, with no wastage. If you need more speed in the future, you’ve got room to change.
We expect to keep you online all the time. But sometimes things like floods, fires or roadworks can put a spanner in the works. Avoid disruption to learning with a second circuit. It’ll automatically take over if your main leased line hits a problem. Let us know if you’d like a copy of our BTnet Resilience brochure which explains the options: Backup, Failover, or Load Balancing.
With school and college budgets tight, you’ll want to be sure you’re getting value for money. And that’s exactly what you’ll get with BTnet. All the performance. All the reliability. At an affordable education price.
To realise all the benefits of a cloud-based approach to teaching and learning, you need an internet connection and network that’s exceptional. You need BTnet and our unrivalled network.
Our BTnet platform is built for performance and offers super-low latency. This means cloud apps and other traffic is fast, snappy and annoying lag is avoided. There’s nothing to slow the learning down. We’re so confident in the performance of BTnet that we even promise under 20ms UK network latency within our SLA (Service Level Agreement). That’s blazing fast.
As well as the super-low latency network, BTnet uses Direct Private Peering to all the major cloud application providers in education, including Microsoft, Apple, Google and Amazon. This creates a direct private connection between BT’s internet platform and the cloud service provider, so traffic can be handled directly with no need to route over the public internet. It’s faster because traffic congestion is reduced. And it’s better quality because packet loss is prevented and latency is kept low.
Ours is the only UK network that offers 99.999% availability. It’s built to the very highest standards, with exceptional levels of resilience. Ours is the largest network in the UK, with the widest coverage of any end-to-end provider. We engineer our network to never exceed 50% utilisation, so there’s always capacity to spare. Plus our network supports the UK’s critical infrastructure, keeping the emergency services connected. And we run the UK’s 999 service, which locates every call within three metres.
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The services described in this publication are subject to availability and may be modified from time to time. Services and equipment are provided subject to British Telecommunications plc’s respective standard conditions of contract. Nothing in this publication forms any part of any contract.
Our friendly education connectivity experts are here to support you. Via a phone or video call, we’ll help you assess whether your current internet provision is right-sized to meet the technology needs of your school or college. Both now, and for your future digital transformation plans. Our advice is completely free and without obligation, of course.
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