Pat Burns, VP for IT Friday, May 27, W. Rockwell Hall

 Analysis ◦ Business as usual ◦ Hybrid approach: default - shift the operational demarcation point to the ports on the edge switches for patching by local staff ◦ Complete centralization  Discussions ◦ Provost ◦ IAC ◦ Council of Deans ◦ ISTeC EAC and RAC

 ‘Hardening’ the network, both physically and operationally, is needed to support ◦ VoIP transition ◦ Increasing demands for other ‘real-time’ apps ◦ An increasing number of life and safety devices ◦ Increasing demands for capacity and throughput ◦ A sustainable central NOC activity in ACNS  Directive from the Provost to be more efficient

 This discussion, as directed by the Provost ◦ ‘Meet with the network operators to explore ways to progress with this initiative’  A Charge to the Communications Infrastructure Committee to devise a policy to operate the network more effectively and more efficiently ◦ Consensus, or ◦ Majority and minority opinions

 ACNS present a status update, CIC’s charge to develop a network operations policy  Discussion with those of you who operate networks  Feed into the CIC activity  Run up through the IT Governance process: IAC, ITEC, COD, Provost