East of England Regional Broadband Consortium

E2BN is geographically the largest of the 11 RBCs with approximately 1.1m pupils: many of them in rural areas.

Icon Information Systems provides a variety of IT consultancy services to E2BN who require a range of both technical and “soft” skills:

  • broadband content related project management (e.g. education site development, video-conferencing, etc)
  • web-site planning, management and design
  • liaising with third party web-developers and suppliers
  • software development (bash, Perl, Python, HTML, php, JavaScript)
  • application installation and support (Squid, Apache, MySQL, Postgres, etc.)
  • Zimbra Collaboration suite server installation and support
  • server installation, configuration and remote management in various Linux distros
  • server containerization (OpenVZ, LXC on Proxmox clusters)
  • security
  • technical writing documentation, whitepapers, specification sheets, etc
  • website content creation and editing