SWINDON-based internet appliance provider Equiinet has been awarded a £2.5 million contract to supply 2,500 of its CachePilot e-learning devices to London's schools after being selected as the preferred e-learning delivery solution for the London Grid for Learning (LGfL).
The LGfL is the umbrella organisation for London's 33 local education authorities.
Brian Durrant, chief executive of LGfL, said: "We looked at a number of solutions and decided that CachePilot is the most effective content delivery method."
CachePilot is an appliance-based smart caching device that enables schools to keep pace with the ever-growing bandwidth demands of e-learning packages.
It can store, update and deliver content locally, enabling simultaneous access by multiple PCs, regardless of the size of the package, the content provider or the available bandwidth.
Said Keith Baker, Equiinet's director of special projects: "As e-learning becomes more commonplace, schools require ever smarter caching solutions that are robust enough to handle any e-learning package."
Equiinet, based at Dorcan, specialises in integrated solutions that provide cost-effective, easy, fast secure access to the Internet.
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