What is SWGfL? A not-for-profit charity owned and directed by the 15 member LAs An organisation that deals exclusively with education and public sector A leading RBC

Why use SWGfL? Not-for-profit charity 0% margin on all telecoms circuits Supplier-neutral Economies of scale (2,500 schools) Aggregated procurement

Why use SWGfL? Safe network with IWF service Private network Secure network including ISO27001 Skilled, qualified and experienced Wide range of leading partners

Why use SWGfL? SWGfL RBC Aggregation and procurement Industry specialisms Contract management Accountable to customer National engagement RM IHG Support services Data centre services Applications and tools Systems and partner integration Partners Telecoms services Applications and tools Technical specialisms

Context Cisco VNI – by 2014: – Annual global traffic ¾ of a zettabyte (64 exabytes per month) – Video (TV, VoD, internet video, and p2p) will exceed 90% of global consumer traffic Significant budget reductions Increases in information risk Need to share – Services, Information, Infrastructure

Context SWGfL: – Over 2,500 establishments – Almost 1,000,000 users – Multi-Gb fibre distribution and backhaul – Resilient core network Over the past year: – two billion s processed. 93% were spam – average 483 million web- page requests processed every week (only 1% of pages are filtered) – blocked an average of 15,500 malware instances every month