Transcript University of Utah

Welcome from the
University of Utah
Stephen H. Hess
Associate Vice President
Electronic Communications
University of Utah
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Oldest University West of the Missouri River
Total Enrollment 28,437
Total Number of Employees 14,250
17 Colleges
$ 1.7 Billion Annual Budget
Host of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games
The University of Utah
University of Utah Graduates
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Nolan Bushnell founder of Atari father of Video
Games
John E. Warnock Co-Founder of Adobe Systems
Edwin Catmull President of Pixar
Alan Ashton Co-Founder of Word Perfect
David Evans Co-Founder of Evans and Sutherland
Thomas Stock on the Faculty of the UofU College of
Engineering the Father of Digital Recording
The University of Utah
Utah Networking History
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1969 ARPANET commissioned by DOD for
research into networking - Uses Network
Control Protocol (NCP) through Information
Message Processors (IMP) developed by
Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. (BBN) - First
node at UCLA and soon after at Stanford
Research Institute (SRI), UCSB, and the
University of Utah.
The University of Utah
Utah Networking History
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1971 15 nodes (23 hosts): UCLA, SRI,
UCSB, U of Utah, BBN, MIT, RAND, SDC,
Harvard, Lincoln Lab, Stanford, UIU(C),
CWRU, CMU, NASA/Ames.
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That’s 34 years. LOTS of years in Internet
Time
The University of Utah
University of Utah Network
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Provides Internet, Internet2, IP video, VoIP
services for several hundred departments
and buildings on campus
40 gig Core Node Project: bringing 40 GigE
from the Core nodes to Distrubution
More info In Bryan Morris Utah Network
update later today
The University of Utah
The University of Utah
Utah Education Network
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Provides Internet, Internet2, IP video, VoIP services
for K-12, higher-ed, libraries, state government in
Utah and southern Idaho
GL3 Project: bringing GigE WAN services to Utah
higher-ed, K-12, libraries, state govt
Phase 1 (finish summer ‘05): GigE/10GigE backbone,
most higher-eds, 16 K-12 district offices, 25 middle/high
schools, state government
 Phase 2 (finish fall ‘05): 145 middle/high schools, more
higher-ed main and branch campuses
 Phase 3 (start ‘06): ~300 K-12 schools, libraries
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The University of Utah