Welcome to the
Department of
Technology Services
Mission Statement
DoTS provides and supports effective technology solutions for the entire DPS educational community.
DoTS by Numbers
These facts and figures paint a picture of the scope of work
provided by the Department of Technology Services
- Current number of major projects managed and/or deployed by DoTS: 15, but constantly changing
- Number of new major systems projects initiated this year: 60
Number of reporting requests fulfilled: 621 - Number of Hotline contacts in one year: 61,000+
- DPS’ E-mail system processes over 6 million messages per week:
– 315,714,930 per year, with over 239,871,387 being blocked SPAM and virus attacks - District computers accessed over 5.1 billion web pages in 2009, of which over 94 million were blocked, because they contained material that may be considered harmful to children (CIPA)
- Fiber network installed for all schools, representing the state’s largest educational network (useful for just-in-time video training, distance learning, video communications)
- Number of telephones, networking equipment and peripherals attached to the DPS network: 39,985
- Number of personal computers and peripherals connected to the DPS network: 27,623
- DPS has installed over 1,280 miles of certified Category 6 data cable
- Number of vendor and in-house supported applications: 220
- Number of school and administrative application servers: 509
- Terabytes of Central Storage (multiple Tiers): 200
- DPS has a 100:1 employee to support technician ratio (Industry Standard:
Small Business = 25:1, Medium to Large Business = 35:1, Government = 50:1) - Number of District employees DoTS is responsible for supporting: 11,000
Updated 3/1/2010 by DoTS
