The Gloversville Enlarged City School District consists of five elementary school buildings - Boulevard, Kingsborough, McNab, Meco and Park Terrace, Gloversville Middle School and Gloversville High School .  

At present, the District administration offices are located in the Middle School complex.  A distance of one to five miles separates all schools from each other, with the exception of the Middle School and High School that share the same campus.

The schools vary in age from approximately seven to upwards of ninety years old. Considerations impacting the implementation of a network cabling system include: solid wall construction, lack of hung ceilings or raised floors, and no consideration given to cable infrastructure in base building design.

For student Network activity, presently, all buildings have a complete and certified category 5 copper cable infrastructure with 100 Mbs Fast Ethernet switch closets and fiber optic backbones with high-speed gigabit switches. 

All buildings are connected with routers on high speed T1 data linked copper pairs. Administrative computing tasks are all performed on their own LAN, within the middle school complex, and have a secure server domain hosting financial/personnel and student demographic data that is accessible only to authorized users in each building.

In the present configuration, the entire district is connected with Personal Computer (PC) networks over routed fiber and high speed copper pairs which provide district wide Internet access, high interconnectivity between buildings, availability of administrative servers to building offices and all single point network administration capability. 

All elementary school computers are newer, (PII & III), and are capable of running all installed applications.  High school and middle school labs are newly equipped with all P4 based network computers. The high school and middle school classroom networked computers are older, (P166MMX), upgraded as best they can be and lack multimedia capability, but still accommodate most of our current applications. 

These older P166 systems are primarily for use in New York state mandated period by period attendance reporting, utilizing a web browser and our new web based student demographic system. The districts nine domain or building servers, which  are currently in the process of being replaced with RAID 5, Xeon processor equipped servers, are utilized mainly for user authentication, desktop profile access, administrative maintenance, network security, database applications, print services and personal home directory file storage. 

Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices are used for archive data storage, networked computer hard disk images and application updates. 

The internal connection speed is acceptable, for most multimedia and demanding applications, at 100 Megabits per second (Mbs), data transfer rate, from the sub-closet switches to the desktops and 1 Gigabit per second (Gbs) on the fiber backbone that connects the Main Distribution Facility (MDF), or main closet, to the Intermediate Distribution Facilities (IDF), or sub-closets.

There are no outdated computers currently installed or maintained in any district buildings. All elementary schools are completely networked utilizing the Windows NT 4.0 Network Operating System (NOS) on servers as well as client computers. The elementary school environment is currently in the process of being upgraded to the Windows 2003 server and Windows 2000 client NOS. 

The districts two networked computers per classroom goal has been achieved at the elementary school level. The high school and middle school are completely networked utilizing the Windows 2000 NOS on servers and client computers. The high school and middle school environment is currently in the process of being upgraded to the Windows 2003 server NOS. 

A one networked computer per classroom goal has been achieved at the high school and middle school, with work continuing to achieve a two networked computer per classroom goal.

All schools use automated library systems, which are either Internet based or provided by BOCES.  Some library automation programs are accessed within the library only and some can be accessed from any networked computer in the building.  

Access to external services is accomplished by a fiber optic T1 line at the high school and distributed on a conditioned copper pair star configuration to all other buildings.  

There is no wheel design configuration WAN redundancy, with the exception of the middle school, which is connected to the high school via buried fiber optic cable creating one flat campus network.

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