Why StudentNet?

Because we specialise in schools! We understand that school IT staff must meet complex challenges with limited resources - plus the demand for their services never stops increasing in both complexity and volume. We offer some exciting new products and services to help meet the challenge of reducing your school's IT costs.

Virtual Server Solutions: We'll help you implement a virtual server environment on your machine or ours running VMware on your choice of Linux or Windows at our data centre.

NextMail Collaboration Services: Innovative collaboration and email solutions for your school community.

Continuity Protection: Safeguard your school-hosted network services with our fall-back options to minimise disruption when something goes wrong.

Why trust your services to StudentNet?

StudentNet's servers reside at the Semper.Net Data Centre, a modern, purpose-built environment with state-of-the-art security, fire protection and power supply.

StudentNet services are backed by the considerable expertise of Semper.Net, a provider of hosting and network management services since 1996, a record of continuous operation that few Australian providers can match.

 StudentNet guarantees its services to you with a commercial grade service level agreement.

Your School, Your Data, Your Network

Partner with StudentNet and put our expertise to work for you.

This diagram helps to show how flexible collaboration opportunities can be established with NextMail's Collaboration accounts.

In this example a remote student has established a collaboration session with the central school. The remote student may, for instance, choose to print a document on the school's printer. At the same time another remote student has used their collaboration account to also establish a collaboration session with the original student. The new remote student may, for instance, visit a web page that is located on the original student's notebook.

Migration Completed
StudentNet has completed the migration of all school email clients to NextMail, a move that will dramatically reduce the costs for schools to provide email services to staff and students.

Coming This Week
On Tuesday 20/1/9, StudentNet will deliver new NextMail administration and reporting capabilities, enabling school IT staff to directly control and monitor mail account usage within their NextMail environment. These new capabilities are the first stage in our effort to satisfy the feedback that we have received from you - our user community.

NextMail has written its own code for many of these functions, especially the reporting.  These functions are exclusive to NextMail users and are not available to direct users of Software as a Service (SaaS) email services.

The NextMail upgrade will include these new functions:

Direct Account Management:
 - Create/Delete/Suspend email accounts
 - Change passwords
 - Bulk account creation

Reporting:
 - Summary Report 
       Summarises total accounts, total usage, and total quota for the month
 - Accounts Summary
       Details on usage, quota, last login, and account status for the previous day 
 - Quota Limits Report
       Information on accounts approaching their quota limit
 - Email Clients Report
       Information on the total number of accounts accessed for a given day of the month, and how they were accessed
 - Activity Report
       Information on how active accounts are for a given day of the month
 - Disk Space Report
       Information on total storage used, and a breakdown of accounts categorised by usage

To login to Nextmail Admin console, click here.
An updated user manual is now available here.

In order to implement these new capabilities, we will need to take the NextMail administration system offline for a period of several hours on the morning of Tuesday, January 20, 2009. We apologise in advance for this inconvenience but are sure that you will like the results.

The sending and receiving of emails, and access to emails, will not be affected during this upgrade activity.

As always, if you have any questions, please free to contact us at StudentNet on (02) 9281 1626 or via email to support@studentnet.edu.au

 On 19 November 2008, Premier John Brumby announced a $245 million strategy to boost the Victorian ICT Industry, which included funding to establish an IPv6 testbed network to assist Victorian industry to make the transition to IPv6. The Acting Minister for Information and Communication Technology, Gavin Jennings, stated:

'In addition, we have also committed $350,000 towards a program to encourage industry to shift to Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), the next generation internet, which will provide industry with an unlimited number of IP addresses to cater for business expansion.'

StudentNet is proud to announce that it has been chosen as a Partner for the VIC6 project. Our involvement continues our record of technical innovation striving to improve service delivery to Australian education.

In 2008 Studentnet takes a new direction as a separate, independent commercial entity.

Originally developed by the Association of Independent Schools of NSW, StudentNet has been serving independent schools since 1996.

We are fully committed to serving the education community as a provider of quality network services at a commercially competitive price.

We understand that school IT staff face complex challenges and increasing demand for services with limited resources. We offer some exciting new products and services to help meet these challenges.

Virtual Server Solutions: We'll help you implement a virtual server environment on your machine or ours running VMware on your choice of Linux or Windows at our data centre.

NextMail Email Services: Innovative email solutions for your school community integrating with Gmail^TM or the Edumate^TM education management products.

Edumate Express: Your school can have a function-rich education management tool quickly, for a low price, with minimal demand on school staff.

Continuity Protection: Safeguard your school-hosted network services with our fall-back options to minimise disruption when something goes wrong.

Why trust your services to StudentNet?

StudentNet's servers reside at the Semper.Net Data Centre, a modern, purpose-built environment with state-of-the-art security, fire protection and power supply.

StudentNet services are backed by the considerable expertise of Semper.Net, a provider of hosting and network management services since 1996, a record of continuous operation that few Australian providers can match.

 StudentNet guarantees its services to you with a commercial grade service level agreement.

Your School, Your Data, Your Network

Partner with StudentNet and put our expertise to work for you.