Internet Services

All offices, agencies, and schools are required to use the Office of Information Technology Internet Service.  This service is a secure and content filtered internet access that fosters safe environment for our students and employees.  We utilize business/enterprise grade circuits to provide our internet access to the sites of the archdiocese.  We offer a wide variety of connectivity speeds and can discuss all available options with each site as requested.  Our internet service is transported via a secure connection(Layer 2 or VPN) back to our data center to be passed through our firewall for security and content filtering.  We presently deliver over 30 million web pages per day to our users across 200 sites and 50,000 end users.  The features of our internet service include the following:

1. Enterprise grade internet circuit
2. Enterprise grade router(i.e., Cisco)
3. Enterprise firewall security
4. Enterprise & Catholic focused internet content filtering with a primary focus on fostering safe environment compliance.   
5. WAN Circuit monitoring for outages.
6. DNS services 
7. Troubleshooting and repair of the WAN circuit

This service covers a typical Wide Area Network(WAN) service that extends from the public internet/data center to the border of the local sites LAN.  As this illustration depicts the WAN circuits are seperate from a sites LAN.  At a minimum we can troubleshoot/repair issues to the WAN border.  LAN troubleshooting and assistance services would fall under ArchTAP.