Welcome UMATS Retreat June 21, 2007

Agenda 1:00 – 1:30 State Of UMATS (Jerry Waldron, Norwin Malmberg) 1:30 – 2:30 SWOT analysis (Don Spicer) 2:30 – 2:45 Break 2:45 – 3:15 UMATS moving forward: A general strategic discussion (Jerry Waldron, Don Spicer) 3:15 – 4:30 Breakout sessions 4:30 Wrap up (Jerry Waldron) 6:30 Dinner at Olde Mill Crab House

Breakout Sessions UMATS governance (Peter Murray, Jeff Huskamp) UMATS strategic plan review and update (Jerry Waldron) Discussion of external relationships: assessment and opportunities (Jack Seuss, Tony Conto) Advanced Networking Services: Grid Computing, Disaster Recovery, Remote Visualization, Tele-medicine, Federated Identification Management (Suresh Balakrishnan) Community College partners; current and future plans and directions (Norwin Malmberg)

State of UMATS UMATS Retreat June 21, 2007

Accomplishments FY07 DWDM ring completed 7/06 Force10 core routers deployed 7/06 Towson/UB/Coppin/COMB now Gigabit Ethernet 8/06 2 OC-3s to Salisbury 9/06, 5/07 Senior Network Engineer (David Israel) hired 10/06 Hagerstown Community College connected 10/06 Director transition 1/07 CALEA issues resolved for now 2/07 UMES MFRI site connected 3/07

Accomplishments FY07 (cont) Prince George’s Community College connected 4/07 UMUC upgraded to Gigabit Ethernet 5/07 Conversion from CDigix to Ruckus 6/07

Current UMATS Map Backbone

Current UMATS Map University of Maryland, Baltimore Hub

Current UMATS Map University of Maryland, College Park Hub

Current UMATS Map UMBC and 6 St. Paul

Current UMATS Map Salisbury University Hub

Current UMATS Map Frostburg State University and Hagerstown Center

Upcoming Projects 10 Gigabit backbone upgrade Fiber connection to UMBI/COMB Fiber connection to Shady Grove campus UMES Coastal Ecology Teaching & Research Center USM Office upgrade to DS-3 New Polycom RMX 2000 video bridge Additional Cogent ISP connection – 500 Mb in McLean, VA

Upcoming Projects Barter agreement with networkMaryland for additional Hagerstown / Frostburg bandwidth Trading additional 100 Mb of Cogent ISP service Increase from existing DS-3 circuits to at least OC-3

Upcoming Projects Backup microwave connection to Hagerstown / Frostburg Suggested by Mark Cather, UMBC Path will run from UMBC → Hagerstown 911 center → Frostburg Lowndes Hall Partnership between UMATS, networkMaryland, and Sailor Will provide an alternate path in case of fiber cut

Upcoming Projects Maryland Broadband Cooperative MDBC is running fiber from VA line across Bay Bridge Salisbury University is providing MDBC rack space Fiber currently runs to NASA / Wallops Island, VA UMATS will be providing a DS-3 connection for NASA through June, 2008 MDBC will provide 2 pairs of dark fiber from Salisbury across the Bay Bridge when construction is completed UMATS will join MDBC Many future possibilities

BERnet Baltimore Education and Research Network Not directly part of UMATS Started in 2003 by Mike McCarthy (JHU), Pat Wallace (Sailor), and Richard Rose (UMATS) Goal was to provide low cost Internet2 access in the Baltimore area Members are UMBC, UMB, JHU, Sailor, Morgan, MAX, UMATS, and the City of Baltimore

BERnet Baltimore Education and Research Network Initial funding paid for Ciena and Juniper equipment to provision and utilize an unprotected OC-48 from College Park to Baltimore, over existing networkMaryland fiber Intra-city connections were donated by the City of Baltimore Converted to DWDM ring in Summer 2006 Major upgrade planned for 2007 10 Gb Layer2/3 connection along diverse paths Unprotected Layer1 connections to NLR, MIT, other MAX customers, and each other

Community College Video Network CCs will replace MIDLN codecs with standards based (H.323) codecs – Polycom HDX 9002/4 CCs paying for 2 Polycom RMX 2000 video bridges UMATS orders, installs and manages video bridges UMATS orders and pays for T1s UMATS provides central routers CCs pay flat “postal” rate for each site UMATS will hire a student for evening IVN issues Expected completion August 1st, 2007

Community College Video Network Anne Arundel Community College – 2 sites Baltimore City Community College – 2 sites Carroll Community College Chesapeake College – 4 sites College of Southern Maryland – 3 sites Frederick Community College Garrett College Hagerstown Community College Howard Community College Montgomery College – 9 sites Prince George’s Community College – 2 sites Villa Julie College – 2 sites Wor-Wic Community College – 2 sites

State of UMATS Questions? DOS.