1. Rhode Island Network for Educational Technology, Inc. 2004 Update Sharon Hussey Executive Director Copyright Sharon L. Hussey, 2004. This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the author. Delivering Internet access and technology solutions in support of RI’s K- 12 education and municipal community

2. What is RINET? 501c non-profit corporation Governed by Board of Directors –District representation - 5 –Rhode Island Department of Education -1 –University of Rhode Island - 2 –Brown University – 1 –State agency - 1

3. What does that mean? Neutral organization owned by members Operate independently of State Purchasing –Not on State Master Price Agreements –Take advantage of State Master Price agreements –Effected only indirectly in role as aggregator to state and local agencies

4. Strategic Partnerships OSHEAN (SEGP) – I1 and I2 Verizon – transport and I1 COX – transport and I1 Cisco – routers, switchers American Power Conversion - UPS Atrion – managed network services Digital Support Corporation – LAN and WAN services

5. Customers Members –Public school districts – 36 (100%) –Career and technical centers (100%) –Private, independent, parochial schools –Charter schools –Educational Collaboratives (100%) –Municipalities – all towns and cities – RINET- MUNI Contracting Agencies –Rhode Island Department of Education –Rhode Island Department of Health

6. Funding Sources Member fees –Internet Access Bandwidth bundled with suite network centric services –WAN management services

7. Network Architecture at the Core Hub and spoke topology 1 OC3 to Genuity (Level III) & 1 OC3 to OSHEAN 2 OC3s to members ATM DS3 for RINET-MUNI FRAME T3 for directly connected schools Cisco 7200 series routers 2 8e6 R2000s filter appliances 1 TopLayer Load Balancer

9. Distributed Network Architecture 1992 1994 1998 2001 2002 2003 2004 Dial-up lines Frame relay lines (56k, 384k, T1) Frame relay district WANs ATM video lines (QoS) ATM/FRASI district WANs ATM WANs Cable (128k, 256k, 384k) Fiber Wireless

10. Network-centric services 56K Dialup access and high-speed, high bandwidth direct access Email –Virus protection –Spam control –Directory services –Listserv management Web hosting Content filtering (locally managed) Network design, planning, engineering, configuration, and monitoring Video over IP –Bridging, training, consultation WAN Management –Leased routers, NOC services

11. Capacity planning Metrics –MRTG – bandwidth utilization –What’s Up Gold – monitoring edge and core devices –Solar Winds – more granular information Technical planning –technical staff of higher ed partners, school districts, OSHEAN, and State agencies Strategic planning –Collaborative partners –K-12, University and Agency Board members –Business partners – emerging technology technical staff of Verizon, Cisco, Cox, Atrion, DSC, APC Pilot projects - video over IP, WAN management, Firewall services

12. Threats to continued success Competition from ISP’s offering lower pricing, fewer services, asymmetrical bandwidth Political –Changes in federal funding priorities –Straining budgets for local governments Legislative –Changes in State legislation to fund transport lines for K-12

13. Effects of economic slowdown Core services - neutral Additional services –Schools looking to outsource and aggregate WAN management services Data management services New sources of funding creating opportunities –Homeland security

14. Burning Issue? Managing changes in –Relationships Constituents Champions Collaborative partners –Increasing need for services –Rapidly emerging technologies