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Luke Hately-Broad, Product Manager

Luke Hately-Broad

Product Manager

About Luke

Luke is Product Manager for infrastructure at RM Technology, managing products and solutions that ensure school staff and students can access their critical data when and where they need to and that their data is secure. Luke has over 15 years’ experience designing and selecting products for UK schools.

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School broadband

DfE standards

School improvement

Multi-academy trust

Uninterrupted learning, protected

Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS), are big, intelligent, batteries that protect critical IT infrastructure devices from power cuts and fluctuations. They provide short term emergency power in...

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School networking

DfE standards

Network cabling standards published by the DfE

This blog was originally posted in July 2022 and was updated in April 2026 to include the latest information. If network switches are the unsung heroes of an IT network, cabling is their mostly...

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School networking

DfE standards

Network switches standards published by the DfE

This blog was originally posted in July 2022 and was updated in April 2026 to include the latest information. Network switches are possibly the unsung heroes of IT networking. They perform an...

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School networking

DfE standards

School wifi standards published by the DfE

This blog was originally posted in July 2022 and was updated in April 2026 to include the latest information. Connected technology in schools has moved out of a dedicated IT suite and into every...

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School broadband

Multi-academy trust

Beyond broadband: Why an Infrastructure review is real ROI for MAT leaders

You’ve navigated the procurement minefield, secured the budget, and levelled up your broadband. It feels like a victory, and it is. But upgrading your broadband without reviewing your internal...

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