Video-on-demand developer, Celerity through their distributor, Kidston
Communications, will deploy a closed-loop Digital Education System
including digital head end server and 100 T 6000 set-top boxes to all
Kindergarten (5 year olds) through 12th grade (17-18 year olds)
classrooms in the small town Adena, Ohio, local school district. Set-top
boxes will contain a Pentium processor and connect to the Internet.
Valued at $150,000, Celerity wants to deliver more systems to schools,
a market in which they are currently specializing. Deploying such
systems enable teachers to explore a variety of rich video resources.
Other companies are looking towards the same horizon. For example,
ITV middleware developer, WorldGate, has also deployed several
WISH-TV Internet TV systems to school districts, though their set-tops
are distributed directly to students' homes. WISH stands for WorldGate
Internet School to Home TV. Participating partners on this project include
Scientific-Atlanta, and cable providers, Charter and Buckeye Massillon.
Deployments to school systems include Louisiana, Ohio, and Illinois.

{ED - You may be interested in also looking at http://www.ennis.ie. Basically
an experiment to push 10,000 homes into the Broadband future. The
Medialab's NiF group will be installing some software in the local
schools. This is a prt of the ongoing Silver STringers project.}