Server question

[mikeny]

School setting question:

What would be a good server that can accomadate 1200 laptops hooking onto a news program. We are trying to set up a morning news reel that students and teachers can access on their laptops for a few minutes each morning. It would also serve as the server for 30 desktop computers in the computer classroom.

 

[gators1223]

if it is 1200 all at the same time good luck, and samba i hear works well in these situations, i think it will come down more to network infrastructure than the server itself

 

[JDocs]

Agreed. For something like a news real my old P1 old probably do the job, albeit a bit slugish, so anything moderately new should handle the work load.

 

[mikeny]

OK. We have a T3 wireless network in the school. The news report wont be on the 1300 laptops ( I was thinking of all the traffic) but probably all the teachers laptops to show each class during homeroom. This would be about 89 teachers.

Would a simple server made by Dell suffice? Coincidently, we have Dell coming in on Monday to work on our 2 year olf iBooks to put on Macs new OS---Leopard. We have 626 ibooks and 674 MacBooks

 

[the_mystery_gamer]

Why is Dell working on your Apple hardware?