Managed Internet in Dundee

What is different about managed internet in Dundee

Dundee has two connectivity stories running side by side. The waterfront and the newer developments are well served, often with fibre designed into the building, while a business a few streets inland can be on infrastructure that has not changed in twenty years. It means a quote for one address tells you very little about another, and the useful step is checking the specific premises rather than the city.

Education adds its own requirement. A school or college needs filtered, monitored access with the safeguarding obligations that come with it, and enough headroom that a whole year group being online at once does not make the roll call unusable. That is a different specification from an office of the same headcount, and it is worth being sized for the busiest hour rather than the average.

Questions we get asked in Dundee

The waterfront has great connectivity. Does that help us a few streets away?

Not as much as you would hope. Fibre availability in Dundee changes street by street rather than area by area, so a new development being well served says nothing about an older building nearby. We check the specific address, because the alternative is a quote that assumes infrastructure which stops short of your door.

How should a school connection be sized?

For the busiest hour rather than the average, because the average is meaningless when a year group logs on at once. Filtering and monitoring come with the safeguarding obligation rather than as an extra, and it is worth agreeing who reviews the logs and how often at the point of install rather than after an incident.