Montana’s Darby School District signs contract with the Zayo Group to significantly improve Internet speeds

The Darby School District is working on a contract to have Internet fiber installed from Hamilton to Darby that would vastly improve Internet service to the school and, potentially, the community.

Superintendent Loyd Rennaker said the school would see a huge benefit.

"Next year we’ll have the infrastructure for one gig of bandwidth – it will give us 20 times the service," Rennaker said. "We did an assessment with our student population and found we should be running with 100 megabytes. We currently have 50 megabytes, which is way better than what we used to have. Our number projections show that by 2018 we’ll need to have 300 megabytes for a district our size so by doing this now we’ll exceed that and have plenty."

Zayo Group http://www.zayo.com/

By Michelle McConnaha

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