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Board funds tech supportKNOB NOSTER, Jan 10, 2013 (The Daily Star-Journal - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- The school board approved nearly $37,000 for districtwide technology upgrades Wednesday. Technology department head Jeff Davis said $32,000 would replace a wireless network system. "The system we have right now is congested. It is six years old and the space available on it is maxed out. Also, the main controller is obsolete so if it were to go out, it is not supported so I could not replace it," he said. Davis said a new system would prevent districtwide outages. "If there was an outage at, say, the high school, it would not affect anywhere else," he said. The Ubiquiti system, Davis said, would allow faculty and student computers to run faster, with space to expand. "A student or anyone else wouldn't even notice," he said. Increasing faculty computer memory will cost $5,000. "We have 88 teacher computers right now that are running on only 1 gig of RAM and with all of the new things they are doing in the classroom with the computer the programs just can't be supported," he said. ___ (c)2013 The Daily Star-Journal (Warrensburg, Mo.) Visit The Daily Star-Journal (Warrensburg, Mo.) at www.dailystarjournal.com Distributed by MCT Information Services |