[11.5.2021] With the laying of fiber optic cables, a pilot project has now started in the Bremen children’s and family center Osterhop: The daycare facilities of the city’s day care provider, Kita Bremen, are to receive an improved data connection.
With the laying of fiber optic cables, the pilot project for the improved data connection of the daycare facilities of the city’s day care provider, Kita Bremen, started on May 4th at the Osterhop children’s and family center in the Free and Hanseatic City of Bremen. This is announced by the Bremen Senate Office for Children and Education. “It took longer than expected, but now it’s really getting started on the information superhighway,” said Senator Claudia Bogedan. “Today we are laying the foundations for expanding the communication channels in our children’s and family centers. This is a milestone not only for the children and families, but above all for the employees. The aim is to offer early childhood education an optimal digital infrastructure and to enable networking. Due to the difficult times of the pandemic, we are all dependent on changed ways of working. ”
Important empirical values
Through the pilot project, the agency collects important empirical values that help it with the further data connection of all 89 facilities, according to the report from Bremen. In addition to civil engineering work, the field test would include laying fiber optic cables in the building and internal cabling. The measures would be managed by the IT service provider Dataport at five pilot locations by the summer of 2021 and carried out in cooperation with Brekom. The total costs would amount to around 210,000 euros.
Many locations of Kita Bremen are currently still equipped with copper cables. The resulting weak data speed makes films stutter or not run at all, not to mention video conferences.
Part of a multi-year overall concept
Overarching projects such as collaborative work with primary schools would be made more difficult. The limitations of the digital connections are considerable. A faster fiber optic path and corresponding hardware equipment would give employees an improved working basis and open up new opportunities for networking with families. The pilot project is part of the overall concept that Kita Bremen has planned for several years to improve the data connection of all children’s and family centers. The project would include the building blocks of physical connection, internal cabling, hardware and WLAN networks. “The pilot projects are just the beginning,” says Senator Bogedan. (co)
https://www.Kita.bremen.de
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Keywords: broadband, data port, Bremen, day-care center
Image source: youth department
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