Computer service interrupted August 6th & 7th.

(July 31, 2007) A scheduled major network infrastructure upgrade shut down the computers on August 6th and 7th. The infrastructure upgrade was done at the District Office, High School, Middle School, Pulaski, Buildings and Grounds, Transportation, and Athletics. There were intermittent outages of e-mail and Internet in the other buildings as well during the upgrade. Multiple crews worked simultaneously to complete the upgrade. It all went very smoothly and the District's computers should run much faster as a result of the upgrade.

In addition to switching upgrades, there was also an internet service upgrade. According to Robert Hines, the District's Technology Director, "The Internet Connection for Riverhead Central School District is being switched to Lightpath Metro Ethernet '50 Meg' which is 16X faster than was available last year and 32X faster than 2005. This increased Internet bandwidth will help our system support the myriad of instructional and administrative internet based applications we depend on daily."

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