Transcript Monticello and Video Conferencing

Monticello and Video
Conferencing
How to make it work
Shelley Rossitto
Director of Instructional Technology
Monticello Central School District
[email protected]
Projects
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Collaboration with districts
Virtual Field Trips
Meetings outside of region
Shared professional
development
HS and elementary links
5th and 6th grade links
(diversity)
Professional Development
Music – Cleveland Institute
Challenges
• Bandwidth
– Within district, time of day, 4county ring
– Management – packeteer
• Classifies network traffic into
categories based on URL, subnet,
application - tracking
• Provides reporting and graphing on
peak times, TCP health and helps
analyze delays
• Allocate bandwidth
• Identify top users of bandwidth
Challenges cont.
• Infrastructure
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Replace hubs with switched ethernet
Provision bandwidth
QOS
Looking at gateways
Security
Provisioning IP addresses- public internet to
inside district translations
– Firewalls – multiple types
– Management of calls
• Physical setup of classrooms – lights,
microphone
• Portability – network jacks in rooms (easy
access) cables on floor, etc. Technical staff
availability, remote access vs. sneakernet
VPN
What the data tells us
• How to proceed in scheduling
• How much bandwidth to allow
• When can we download and
when do we need to be live
• Be aware of other location in
scheduling. If they do not have a
plan in place your VC could
come to an end because of their
bandwidth issues.
Equipment to purchase
• Polycoms,Tandbergs
• Models – based on what you
use them for
– Gateways
– Firewalls
– Infrastructure upgrades
Information to be found
White papers by Polycom and My Powerpoint
http://www.monticelloschools.net
Click on District corner, technology page and
video conferencing
Credits
Staff at Monticello that makes this work
• Dennis DePasquale – Head Technician
• Ron Devine – Network Administrator
• Scott Kox – Network Administrator
• David Schwartz – Network Administrator
• Peter Jockel- Technician
• David Linton – Technician
• Maria Cruz – Systems Operator