Our Result(s):

GC2000
A partnership including the Pekin Public Schools, Continental Cablevision, IBM and Sprint. Demonstrating the utility of information infrastructure to improve educational quality and the efficacy of a school-based community-wide network in promoting life-long learning and collaboration, GC2000's design capitalizes on lightwave and ATM technologies in connecting the home to the school, the schools to one another, each to the resources of the community, and all to the world beyond.

Artifacts: District 108 to plug city into Internet

civicNET
Central Illinois Valley Intranet Consortium or civicNET, provides a shared high-speed Internet access for much less than it would cost if districts pursued such connections independently. It also allows communication links so students can take advanced classes in cooperation with Illinois Central College.

Artifact: Districts agree to fiber plan

Voice System over ATM - Spherical
District 108 added a telephone to the each teachers desk at a fraction of the traditional cost because it deployed over the GC2000 infrastructure.

Video over GC2000 network - FVC.com
District 108 and the civicNET schools deployed cost effective video conferencing throughout the county across the civicNET infrastructure.