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2. MCNC Grid Computing and Networking Services North Carolina networks include NCREN, the North Carolina State Government ITS network (community colleges and many public schools), Internet2, Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC), and City and County Governments.

3. What is NCREN? Three Primary Services Private data network—Connects UNC system institutions, Duke, & Wake via “platinum” quality WAN. Video network—Enables high quality interactive distance learning and face-to-face conferences among more than 50 university, medical school and research organization sites. Internet connections—Provides Internet and National Research Network (like Internet2 and National Lambda Rail) access, primarily on an allocated cost basis, to the 16 UNC campuses as well as other institutions of higher learning, nonprofits, and the State ITS network.

4. Governance 15 member Board of Directors, about 2/3 of which are university CIO’s and includes CIO for State of North Carolina Advisory Committees to address challenges and make recommendations to management and to UNC Office of the President(UNC-OP) MCNC GCNS Leadership works very closely with UNC-OP on strategic and tactical matters

5. NCREN Organization Chart January 2004 Approximately 20 FTE’s.

6. NCREN Internet Bandwidth Growth 19852003 1 10 100 1000 10,000 100,000  25,000 X Original Capacity Megabits per Second

8. NCREN Revenue Sources (Projected Fiscal ’05) $11.08M Total $7.67M—UNC-OP (mostly funded by General Assembly). $1.84M—Public education Internet billings (pass-thru). $1.20M—Non-public education Internet billings (NC ITS, RTI, WinstonNet, NISS, ERC, etc.) $0.37M—Various contracts (video, etc.)—Not necessarily recurring.

9. NCREN Expenses (Projected Fiscal ’05) $11.1M Total $1.8M—Personnel $6.0M—Circuit Costs $1.2M—Equipment $0.9M—Maintenance & Other Direct Costs $1.2M—Occupancy, G&A, etc.

10. NCREN and NCNI Integration

11. Integrating NCNI: Marrying research with production… Stimulate discovery of advanced networking solutions with focused resources Leverage best new solutions into production networking as soon as it makes sense Sharing networking operations expertise to optimize efficiency and learning curves Utilize MCNC/NCNI CORE assets (equipment, optical fibers, knowledge) across entire NCREN community

12. The Statewide GRID…and NCREN is the Platform WSSU - EduGrid Wake Forest-I2 NCSA - Film Lib. NC A&T Engineering Grid SW Support - East Chemistry, vis. Origin Computer Science Grid UNC-TV Digital Asset Management R1 Clusters, P690, Origin, Abilene, etc. ERC HPC Center Opto-electronics Software design

13. Questions? Thank You!