New Jersey’s College & Universities integrating technologies into instruction, research and public service through an enhanced statewide data/video network George Laskaris

About NJEDge.Net State Research and Education Network –Provide a statewide technology infrastructure for 55 colleges, universities and K-12 schools –Created to support new forms of technology enabled collaboration and advanced applications and to, –Leverage the collective buying power of the membership to achieve economies of scale

Network Resources Statewide regional optical backbone Broadband Internet Service Provider (1400+Mb) Comprehensive Voice Services Sophisticated video conferencing & distance learning capabilities Streaming video resources and video-on-demand Provide regional access to Internet2 Interoperability with the K-12 Video Portal (Access New Jersey) Shared access to Satellite Uplink/Downlink

Three-Tier National Networking Model Campus  Regional  National Regional Networks are the middle tier and bridge of the Three-Tier Model There is a critical role to be performed between a national network and a campus network NJEDge is a New Jersey’s Regional Network supporting research and education

Important migration to Regional Optical Networks (RONs) Now providing sufficient bandwidth to support new classes of end-to-end service –Ultra- broadband last mile connectivity –Delivering unlimited bandwidth in a cost effective manner, and –Providing new value added services such as peering and dynamic optical waves

Performance Strides in the Regional Tier are making new applications possible Large-scale network attached storage/DR Academic video-on-demand content repositories Statewide centrally hosted course management –Sakai, Moodle, Blackboard, WebCT Optical waves dedicated to individual researchers Shared GRIDS and research repositories Federated identity management

Internet2 and Next Generation Networks in Higher Education Providing “orders of magnitude” or a 100-fold increase in bandwidth capacity over current networks Providing advanced communications and collaborative opportunities between researchers around the world Enabling ambitious large-scale next generation projects and applications that support new research models Beginning to re-shape federal funding policies that favor diverse collaborative research paradigms

Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF) Integrated Optical Lambda Network Many Countries are Interconnecting Optical Networks to form a Global SuperNetwork Visualization courtesy of Bob Patterson, NCSA Created in Reykjavik, Iceland Aug 2003

Internet2 International Partners Europe-Middle East ARNES (Slovenia) BELNET (Belgium) CARNET (Croatia) CESnet (Czech Republic) DANTE (Europe) DFN-Verein (Germany) GIP RENATER (France) GRNET (Greece) HEAnet (Ireland) HUNGARNET (Hungary) INFN-GARR (Italy) Israel-IUCC (Israel) NORDUnet (Nordic Countries) POL-34 (Poland) FCCN (Portugal) RedIRIS (Spain) RESTENA (Luxembourg) RIPN (Russia) SANET (Slovakia) Stichting SURF (Netherlands) SWITCH (Switzerland) TERENA (Europe) JISC, UKERNA (United Kingdom) Qatar Foundation Network (Qatar) Asia-Pacific AAIREP (Australia) APAN (Asia-Pacific) APAN-KR (Korea) APRU (Asia-Pacific) CERNET, CSTNET, NSFCNET (China) JAIRC (Japan) JUCC (Hong Kong) NECTEC / UNINET (Thailand) NG-NZ (New Zealand) SingAREN (Singapore) TAnet2 (Taiwan) Americas CANARIE (Canada) CEDIA (Ecuador) CLARA (Latin America and Caribbean) CNTI (Venezuela) CR2NET (Costa Rica) CUDI (Mexico) REUNA (Chile) RETINA (Argentina) RNP [FAPESP] (Brazil) SENACYT (Panama)

Advanced Network Application Attributes Interactive collaboration Real-time access to remote resources

High Performance Group-to-Group Collaboration ; 150 sites worldwide

Virtual Laboratories Space Physics & Aeronomy Research Collaboratory (SPARC) University of Michigan NSF

Arts & Humanities : Dance in the Digital Age Case Western Reserve and Cleveland Institute of Music: The Bing Theater, University of Southern California

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