June 8, 1999
Rutgers University, Livingston Student Center,
Livingston Campus, Piscataway
9am to 3pm

In recent years the higher education community, government, and industry have been working together to create advanced, leading edge, high-performance, pre-commercial networks and network applications. The primary examples are the Internet2 and the federal Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative. Typically these leading-edge testbed projects do not extend directly to institutions outside the large-university research community. EDUCAUSE is making an effort to help prepare the broader higher education community for advanced networking technology.

This conference will cover ways to improve your campus network infrastructure and support systems in preparation for advanced networking. Topics include technologies, trends and comparative costs; convergence of voice, video and data; technical and user support requirements; and justifying networking expenditures to the administration.

9am - Coffee and pastry
9:30 - Dave Staudt, Networking Extension Director, EDUCAUSE
11am - Break
11:15 - Mark Berman, Director of Networks and Systems, Williams Colleges
12:30 - Lunch Served
1:30 - Bob Johnson, Director of Telecommunications and Network Services, University of New Hampshire
3pm - Adjourn

• High performance networking on the national scene: Internet2, Next Generation Internet
  
• commercial offerings
  
• The EDUCAUSE outreach program
  
• Statewide remote technical support
  

• network technology and trends: ATM, 10 Base and 100 Base T, gigabit ethernet
  
• technical support requirements for different technologies
  
• convergence of voice, video and data
  
• involving students in helpdesk and user service functions
  

• user support requirements
  
• justifying networking expenditures to the administration
  
• comparative costs for different technical approaches
  
• contracting out functions – dial-in, maintenance, etc.
  
• negotiating and working with equipment and WAN providers, ISPs
  
• developing and managing RFPs
  
• hiring, training and retaining qualified personnel
  
• working with departmental computing/networking support staff
  

About The Speakers

David A. Staudt
Networking Extension Director
EDUCAUSE

Mr. Staudt recently joined EDUCAUSE to focus on providing information to higher education institutions to assist in upgrading their campus and wide area networking capabilities. He came from the National Science Foundation, where he served for twelve years in the Connections to the Internet Program, which helped about 2000 higher education institutions connect to the Internet. He has run computer centers at the National Science Foundation and the Naval Research Laboratory, and prior to that sold mainframe computers to the Navy.

Mr. Mark. Berman
Williams College

Mark Berman is Director for Networks and Systems at Williams College. He has worked with data and voice networks for over fifteen years and is currently interested in the convergence of those two technologies. Mark made these observations in advance of the conference: "In the last five years we have seen a phenomenal growth in 'multimedia' traffic. By this I mean analog information like pictures, sounds, and video that has been digitized and stored for delivery via the web to a user. So far, the bulk of this traffic is not real time. That is, the analog signals are digitized and stored for access at a later date. Already, however, we are seeing real-time transmission of radio stations and lectures. Soon the users of our networks will want real-time two way communications, and then we are talking about telephone calls across the Internet and a real paradigm shift in the way that networks are used worldwide. Our networks need to be prepared for these changes.

Mr. Robert L. Johnson
University of New Hampshire

Director of Telecommunications and Network Services, University of New Hampshire, 12 years industry experience in both higher education and independent consulting, MCSE, Nortel and Fore Network Engineer Certifications BS BCIS (Business Communications Information Sciences)

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