1. Gigabit in the last mile panel discussion John Killebrew February 8, 2006

2. NC Research and Education Network Our Vision: Connecting Universities, Colleges, Community Colleges, K-12 Schools to the same statewide Wide Area Network, to create a seamless K-20 learning environment

3. Why this matters… Smoother transitions between layers of education Leverage efficiencies of scale Increasing collaboration between adjacent layers Save taxpayer $$$ by increasing efficiencies Control “brick and mortar” expense MOST IMPORTANT: improve RESULTS

4. North Carolina SNAPSHOT 16 State Universities 36 Private Universities and Colleges 58 Community Colleges 115 School Districts (called Local Education Associations) –2300 public schools –650 private schools –Serving 1,463,000 students with over 92,000 teachers

5. What about APPLICATIONS? ACADEMIC Learning Management Systems Learning Object repositories Web Conferencing/collaboration Live and stored Video Streaming Two-way interactive video Hybrid learning Research VOIP

6. What about APPLICATIONS? ADMINISTRATIVE NC WISE Purchasing Attendance Grades School Bus reporting Cafeteria services VOIP Video Conferencing

7. Current Situation Universities and Colleges connected to NCREN. NCREN target access is GigE NCREN PEERS with NCSG OITS Community Colleges all connected to OITS 30% of public schools connected to OITS OITS target is Ethernet, and is currently mostly DS-1 TDM

8. Wouldn’t it be nice if…. Academic/research applications were able to function optimally, at the same time as the administrative applications All of the providers and Statewide network operators could embrace the same connectivity solution Everyone could work towards the same bandwidth goals (Gigabit Ethernet) Reasonable timeframes could be established as working targets

9. ROUTER Firewall Content Server LEA-operated ROUTER Firewall Content Server LEA-operated Possible NCREN rPoP Architecture IP Transport Service Commercial ( ISP ) Services Fiber ILEC/LEC Access LEC Access K-12 and R&E Institutions Commercial Users To other NCREN POPs To other NCREN PoPs University 1 University 2 NCREN Services Cisco 7609 Cisco 12xxx ROUTER Firewall Content Server LEA-operated

10. Thank You!!