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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.
More from Luke Hately-Broad
Backup
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...