Gathering of State Networks St. Louis, MO David Lois - Executive Director 4/17/00
August 16, Business Model WiscNet is a Non-profit Association -501(c)3 Member Owned Cooperative All Employees are Univ. of Wis. Employees Business Services (HR, Purchasing, etc.) from UW-Madison Many Outsource Contracts (NOC, Engineering, etc.)
August 16, Overview of Customers Total Service Base Members 26 University of Wisconsin Campuses 28 Private Colleges 16 Technical Colleges 342 K-12 School Districts 15 Library Systems All State Government Agencies 36 City/County Governments 3 Hospitals
August 16, Overview of Network SONET Technology Most Nodes SONET Ring Protected ATM - Cisco BPX ATM - Cisco LS1010 Most T1s Aggregated at Telco CO and delivered as DS3 to BPX
August 16, Services Available Internet Service Some H.323 Video Web Filtering Web Hosting Platform Service (Servers Hosting) NovaNet Partner , DNS, News
August 16, Other Wis. State Net Issues Dept. of Admin. Provides Mosts Circuits - BadgerNet TEACH WI Program Provides $100 T1s to K- 12s and Libraries WiscNet Provides Layer 3 Services
August 16, Challenges - NOW Exponential Grow in Use Full Cost Recovery of Growing Use Interface to Other WANs and how those WAN effect our QOS Filtering effect on QOS - Currently N2H2 - Looking Elsewhere Scaleable Information - Difficulty of Disseminating Complex Info
August 16, Challenges Future Quality of Service Cost Separation Models (relates to QOS) How to get Internet 2 Services to Internet 1 Members Connectons to other State Nets Getting more Content to Reduce Rising Costs Impact
August 16, WiscNet - your ESP ESP - Education Service Provider History - WiscNet only ISP in State Now - Many, Many ISPs ESP: Realization that Education Needs Special Support and Services
August 16, ESP Services (Potential) NovaNet - K-12 Remedial Classes Support for Library Server Educational Technology Liaison SLD Application Support WebCT and Blackboard Services Member to Member Communication Member to Member Promotion of THEIR Services
August 16, ESP Services - Continued Directory Services to Members (Identification, Authentication, and Authorization) Development of Platform Space for Members Support of Library Catalog Servers
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