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Implementing Digital Education Environment on Eltex equipment

18 October 2022 About the project
Digital Education Environment project has been implemented in Russian schools since 2019. The main goals of the project are:
  • transformation of school environment for students and teachers according to up-to-date digital development level;
  • creation of new conditions for transferring from the traditional methods of education to the digital ones.

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The project plays a significant role not only in the educational process, but in the economy as well. Additionally, Digital Education Environment helps to prepare students to new digital reality. According to settled goals, by 2025, every Russian school must:
  • prepare new school programs and rules for teachers and students interaction;
  • develop new digital educational materials and services;
  • organize necessary telecommunications infrastructure, including high-speed Internet access and access to the educational services.
Moreover, two years of COVID-19 pandemic showed that distant learn-ing is a necessary tool. It is highly important to organize remote interaction for studying and holding meetings, seminars or lections.

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Project implementation
The first stage of Digital Education Environment project started in 16 re-gions of Russia in 2020. Government order №713-р allocates the following roles in the project implementation: Ministry of Digital Development, Com-munications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation is an order giver, the only contractor is Rostelecom. Eltex is the main supplier of telecommunica-tions equipment.

Equipment used
The parameters of the telecommunications equipment, used in the project for school digitalizing, are regulated by the government in terms of legislation.
The government decree dated 16.12.2016 №925 describes the main re-quirements for the equipment, it must:
  • be designed and manufactured in Russia;
  • be included in the Register of Russian electronic equipment;
  • correspond to the technical and functional specification.
The order of The Ministry of Education and The Ministry of Digital De-velopment dated 16.12.2021 №634/925 sets specifications of the equipment used for LAN construction in schools:

Access switches
  • Managed switches
  • Support for PoE/PoE+
  • Bandwidth: no less than 18 Gbps
  • 8, 24, 48 ports
  • No less than 8 classes of QoS
  • SFP uplink ports
  • Console port
Routers
  • No less than 4 10/100/1000BASE-T and 2 1000BASE-X ports
  • Static and dynamic routing (BGP)
  • Support for IPv4 and IPv6
  • GPE, L2TP, PPPoE tunneling
  • VLAN, Q-in-Q
  • Support for GOST-encryption for some models
  • Support for QoS and HQoS
Wireless access points
  • Support for Wi-Fi 5 or higher standards
  • Connection via PoE/PoE+
  • Aggregation, including A-MDPU, A-MSDU
  • Support for QoS including WMM
  • VLAN
  • Identification according IEEE 802.11X (Captive Portal), Radius Server (WPA2 Enterprise)
  • MIMO 2x2 or higher
Wireless network controller
  • Managing wireless access points
  • Firmware configuration and update
  • Support for Captive portal and Radius authorization systems
  • Support for future network enhancing
Eltex equipment delivered for the project implementation fully complies with the stated requirements. Furthermore, Eltex has proposed an integrated solution for building digital environment in schools with wireless connection. The solution consists of the following products:
  •  Access switches with PoE support: MES2424P, MES2428P, MES2324P
  • Routers ESR-10
  • Crypto-routers ESR-100/200 FSTEC
  • Wireless access points WEP-2ac, WEP-2L
  • Wireless network controller Eltex SoftWLC


The integrated approach to the telecommunications infrastructure in schools involves:
  • construction of the managed network which includes all the data chan-nels in the buildings, which allows creating conditions for digital education;
  • creation of a secure network with different access roles (for teachers, students etc.);
  • access to the resources through Wi-Fi technology.
Results of the equipment integration
Since 2020, 2 134 schools in 16 regions of Russia have implemented Digital Education Environment, 8 330 schools will be fully equipped by the end of 2022.

Network infrastructure is built on the Eltex equipment supporting up-to-date communications standards, which will allow network scaling, new ser-vices integration and other improvements:
  • Eltex access switches MES2424P, MES2428P, MES2324P are used for connection of wireless access points, IP phones and other equipment via PoE as well as for connection of security systems – video surveillance and access control system. It is necessary to en-sure safety of personnel and students, and for the control and pre-vention of a potential danger.
  • For wireless access, Eltex access points WEP-2L, WEP-2ac are used. The devices support data transmission through the Wi-Fi 5 technology and allow working with «heavy» multimedia and inter-active content within a network with large quantity of simultane-ous connections.
  • Eltex software controller SoftWLC allows managing a park of wireless devices. Due to the seamless roaming, devices create a uni-fied network environment on the whole school premises without additional authentication and manual switching between zones. Authorization by phone number or via government portal account is required for public networks according to the Russian legisla-tion. SoftWLC allows implementing it.
  • Within the project, it is required to organize an allocated network for teachers with Internet access and office equipment connection. Authorization is proceeded via government portal which stores all the teachers’ accounts. A separate closed network operates for students with the help of crypto-routers ESR-100/200 FSTEC. The access to the Internet is closed, students have access to digital educational services, such as personal education records, library, etc.
  • The integrated solution makes the future network modernization possible without reconstruction of telecommunications infrastruc-ture.
Since the project started, Eltex has delivered more than 100 000 devices:
  • 10 000 routers and crypto-routers
  • 20 000 access switches with PoE support
  • 80 000 wireless access points
  • 80 000 SoftWLC licenses
Digital Education Environment project is running at the moment. All the schools in Russia must be equipped with the innovative educational services by 2024.

We will report on the further project results. Follow the news on Eltex website and official company channels.
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