The EARNEST Foresight Study Campus Issues Martin Price, EUNIS Jean-Paul le Guigner, CRU, France Amsterdam 8 May 2007

The EARNEST Foresight Study Issues For Investigation Campus Bottlenecks Providing Network Services Rollout of IPv6 Training Network Staff Collaboration at Campus and National level

The EARNEST Foresight Study CAMPUS Panel Rogelio Montanana, Valencia University, Spain Michael Nowlan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Ligia Ribeiro, Porto University, Portugal Martin Sutter, SWITCH, Switzerland Plus Jim Buddin, TERENA Jean-Paul le Guigner, CRU, Rennes, France Martin Price, EUNIS, UK

The EARNEST Foresight Study Online Survey Targeted at Heads of campus IT services Took place in early March 2007 Circulated via: –EUNIS mail lists –NREN contacts of connected organisations –National organisations –TERENA lists

The EARNEST Foresight Study Areas of Survey Campus Infrastructures Network Services Governance/Funding Networking Expertise Collaboration

The EARNEST Foresight Study Survey Findings - 1 Diversity of community Wide-ranging connection rates Few campus bottlenecks Some over-restrictive security Videoconferencing widely available

The EARNEST Foresight Study Survey Findings - 2 Networking policy –Non-existent in some institutions –Little formal input from user community Networking staff –Wide spectrum of staffing levels –Recruitment/retention difficulties –Retraining problems (funding, career development plans) Not much collaboration between institutions

The EARNEST Foresight Study Observations / Questions - 1 Coherent institutional networking policies –Includes appropriate funding Levels of security –Difficult to find right balance Promote awareness of services available –At all levels including end-users, technicians, policy makers

The EARNEST Foresight Study Observations / Questions - 2 Network support staff –Increase numbers –Improve level of expertise –Limiting factor may be people not hardware Collaboration –Within institutions –Between institutions –With ‘intermediate’ networks, NRENs, etc