1. Welcome
UMATS Retreat
June 21, 2007

2. 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

3. 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)

4. State of UMATS
UMATS Retreat
June 21, 2007

5. 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

6. 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

7. Current UMATS Map Backbone

8. Current UMATS Map University of Maryland, Baltimore Hub

9. Current UMATS Map University of Maryland, College Park Hub

10. Current UMATS Map UMBC and 6 St. Paul

11. Current UMATS Map Salisbury University Hub

12. Current UMATS Map Frostburg State University and Hagerstown Center

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. State of UMATS
Questions?
DOS.