After taking the Georgia Tech ECE graduate course on Computer Networks, EE6092, in the Fall quarter 1998, Raheem Beyah and Corey Turner asked to do a Special Research Project that would evaluate the network needs of Douglass High School, and design a cost-effective solution for the school.
Raheem had attended Douglass High, which is a science and technology magnet school located in southwest Atlanta, and knew their need for a better network. There are classrooms with personal computers for every student which are rebooted with applications and data at the beginning of every class, causing periodic surges in the network load. Raheem and Corey designed the new network using optical fiber only where needed, routers, and 10/100-megabit/s ethernet switches connected with cat-5 unshielding twisted pair wiring. This resulted in an effective network at an affordable price.
John Copeland