oarnet client services 8.13.08
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OARnet Client Services 8.13.08. Client Services Focus. 9 School Visits or in person meetings Since July 1 Cleveland Technology Fair 9.18.08 Bandwidth Statistics Beginning of FY08 = 3022 Mbs End of FY08 = 4297 Mbs Current BW for FY09 = 4987 Mbs - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
OARnet Client Services8.13.08
Client Services Focus
• 9 School Visits or in person meetings Since July 1
• Cleveland Technology Fair 9.18.08
Bandwidth Statistics
• Beginning of FY08 = 3022 Mbs
• End of FY08 = 4297 Mbs
• Current BW for FY09 = 4987 Mbs
• Approximately a 39% Increase in bandwidth from the start of FY08 and the start of FY09.
• Approximately a 9% Increase in I1 from 6/30/08 to 7/1/08.
Client Services Focus
New Co-location Facility has 11 current customers
– 6 budgeted for ’08 with plans to move in fall
New Academic members: – Mercy College-Connected– Lourdes College – Union Institute-delayed to next calendar year– Franciscan College-almost complete
Client Services Focus
• New FTE Pricing –Questions-concerns?
• New GIG Opteman to Rio Grande to replace GIGAMAN to service University of Rio Grande, Rio Grande Community College and hospitals and local government.
• Marietta GIG Opteman Ordered to service Community
Client Services Focus
– Dayton/Akron PoPs upgraded completed– Internet 2
• Conference in Oct. in New Orleans.• TJ and Ann to do Presentation for K-20 on Remote
instrumentation projects in collaboration with OSC and member schools.
• Participate in demo of Remote Instrumentation• Ohio K-12 connected July 1 to Internet 2
– Increased Collaboration efforts- combining efforts with OLN, OhioLink, eTECH
– Video Collaboration OIT, eTech, OSC– OCLC PoP-Services -Almost Complete
Internet 2 New Pricing Model
OSTEER Member Rates
SEGP Rates
Min Max Price
0 2 $ 3,500
3 5 $ 7,000
6 10 $ 12,000
11 20 $ 20,000
21 100 $ 40,000
OSTEER Member Rates
I2 Consortium Rate
$ 63,514
Non-OSTEER Member Rates
SEGP Rates
Min Max Price
0 2 $ 3,850
3 5 $ 7,700
6 10 $ 13,200
11 20 $ 22,000
21 100 $ 44,000
Non-OSTEER Member Rates
I2 Consortium Rate
$ 69,865
Client Services Focus
Emergency Web Hosting
Notify your constituency of an emergency situation affecting your campus or facility!
• Basic emergency web presence in the event that your primary web presence becomes unreachable.
• Emergency Web Hosting– Oberlin College Pilot– Establish Yearly pricing
Emergency Web Hosting
• This is a hosted service on the OSCnet State-of-the-art backbone.
• OARnet provides all software and hardware for basic service.
• Use secure FTP access to upload simple html pages to a web site with 1 GB of allotted storage space to access and maintain files.
• This emergency site can provide as little or as much information as you wish your viewers to have in the event of an emergency.
• Finally, switching to and from the emergency web site will be as easy as calling the OARnet Support Center and your web presence will available within 2 hours of your call.
Client Services Focus• New FTE pricing model: Unlimited IntraOhio
bandwidth
• Continue to support numerous higher education in Research Initiatives and Community Development.
• Video conference Initiatives.
• Vendor meetings and initiatives- AT&T, Qwest,
Time Warner Cable, Time Warner Telecom,
Verizon, Buckeye Telesystems
• Remote Campus Connectivity
Client Services – Dana Rogers with Connie Martin
Client Services – Maryann Zbydnowskiwith Nancy Drugan-Koehler
Client Services – TJ Sandor with Nancy Drugan-Koehler