SPEAKERS
Implementation of Catholic Network Australia
Michael Haigh
The presentation will cover the construction of CNA and the deployment of services across the infrastructure.
Catholic Network Australia has been formed through the joining of five Catholic Education Networks around the country. The network now covers more than 1600 Catholic schools and education offices from Cairns, through Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth to Broome. An agreement was developed with Telstra during mid 2009 to provide the tails and build the network. Implementation has been ongoing since October 2009. Ultimately more than a thousand sites will have scaleable fibre connections in VPNs terminating in data centres in the above five capital cities.
The network itself delivers ‘Education Services’ that provide collaborative 21st Century learning tools and facilitate sharing contemporary learning resources and professional learning through collaborative partnerships. This is delivered through the CNA Education Services Portal that provides all staff in Catholic schools with access to:
- CNA Education White Pages Directory
- CNA Education Resources including Models of Contemporary Learning and other online resources to support contemporary learning
Bringing this about has involved the implementation of an Identity Management project to allow authenticated access to the Portal by all staff across the country.
Michael Haigh's Biography
Michael Haigh was a teacher for 20 years in secondary schools in Sydney and Canberra. He left teaching to be the Technical Adviser to the ACT Board of Senior Secondary Studies where he was actively involved in the re-engineering to the ACT's Year 12 Certification system and the production of the Territory's TERs/UAIs for university admission from 1993 to 2001. Since 2002 he has worked with the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn to deploy Network services within and between the CGCEO's fifty six schools and its central office. Since 2008 he has been part of the Australian Catholic Education Network Consortium that brought about Catholic Network Australia. Michael is also the National Catholic Education Commission's representative on the Education Chief Information Officers group that involves the CIOs from each State and Territory Department of Education.
