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Broadband for Education

Empowering Education with Uninterrupted Connectivity

Whether you're running a primary school, a bustling college or a data-heavy university campus, our broadband solutions provide the speed, security and stability you need.

Designed to complement and integrate with the Joint Academic  Network (JANET), managed by Jisc, our services ensure secure, high-speed connectivity that meets the demands of modern education — from virtual learning environments and video conferencing to cloud-based tools and research platforms.

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Education-focused Connectivity Solutions

If you are looking for the ultimate connectivity solution, you may want to consider a leased line. With a dedicated leased line, your school or campus can enjoy guaranteed bandwidth, low latency and zero contention, ensuring seamless access to online resources, virtual lessons, and cloud-based tools. Empower your staff and students with the confidence that learning will never be disrupted by slow or unstable connections. 

Speed

Fibre Leased Lines available with speeds from 100Mbps to 10Gbps depending on the needs of your facility. That's up to 10 x faster than the average UK secondary school connection! 

Reliability

Leased Lines offer the most reliable form of Internet connectivity available. In the rare event that a fault occurs, we pull out all the stops to get you back up and running within 6 hours. 

Dedicated Bandwidth

As your leased line is dedicated to you, the bandwidth is exclusively yours, meaning speeds do not drop at peak times. 

Joint Academic Network (JANET)

The Joint Academic Network (JANET) is an internal, high-speed computer network that connects the education and research community across the UK. CloudConnX Full Fibre & Leased Line Services work seamlessly alongside JISC's JANET network, providing you with additional benefits such as:

Rapid data exchange

Exchange vast amounts of data in seconds - Janet currently carries three petabytes of data each day.
 

Security

Detecting and filtering of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack traffic takes place across the Janet Network. This reduces disruption, financial loss and reputational damage to your school. By joining the Joint Academic Network you also benefit from their Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) who monitor and resolve any security incidents that occur on the network.

Improved learning experience

Improve the learning experience of your students with rich learning resources and student wellbeing services that help them to achieve their full potential.
The JANET network also allows tutors and mentors to spot struggling students and to intervene before problems escalate.

Easy access for Students

With the JANET, students can access the network no matter where they are. Whether a student is on a school device or their personal one, they can access the network with a single sign-on.

We are able to deliver this service to the public sector in line with a number of Frameworks. You can read more here.

Department for Education- Meeting digital and technology standards in schools and colleges

Until 2022, the DfE only provided guidance on schools broadband connections. In March 2022, the DfE went one step further and published specific standards, including connection speeds, that a school’s broadband connection should meet as soon as practically possible.

Connection Type

'Schools and Colleges should use a Full Fibre connection for their broadband service' CloudConnX Leased Lines as well as FTTP meet this standard. 

Speed

Primary schools should have a minimum 100Mbps download speed and a minimum of 30Mbps upload speed.  

Secondary schools, all-through schools and further education colleges should have a connection with the capacity to deliver 1Gbps download and upload speed.

CloudConnX Leased Lines are capable of meeting this standard, and an FTTP connection could meet Primary School requirements.

Resilience

Schools and colleges should have a backup broadband connection to ensure resilience and maintain continuity of service. 

We have a number of backup connectivity solutions available. Speak to a member of the team for advice on which would be best suited to your school/college.

Safeguarding

Schools and colleges should have appropriate IT security and safeguarding systems in place, under both child and data protection legislation.

Interested in Connectivity for your School, College or University?

If you would like more information about our connectivity solutions please fill in the form below and a member of the team will be in touch. Alternatively, you can contact us on 0330 122 0550 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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