Heartland area schools are relying more and more each year on Internet connectivity to provide a 21st century education to their students, and their need for Internet bandwidth is growing exponentially. An important service provided by Heartland is Internet access, which is offered free to all of our districts. While some districts choose to use other providers, Heartland and the Iowa Communications Network (ICN) work together to provide Internet access to 45 of our 53 school districts and several of our private schools.
As noted earlier, the demand for bandwidth has been increasing rapidly over the past decade. For the 2012-2013 school year, Heartland will provide 2.5 gigabytes of Internet bandwidth at no cost to the participating schools, more than triple the 800 megabytes provided in 2011-2012. That’s a lot of Google searches!
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