Transcript RINET 2002 The Year in Review

Delivering Internet access and technology solutions in support of RI’s K12 education and municipal community
Rhode Island Network for
Educational Technology, Inc.
2004 Update
Sharon Hussey
Executive Director
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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
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
Strategic Partnerships
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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
Customers
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Public school districts – 36 (100%)
Career and technical centers (100%)
Private, independent, parochial schools
Charter schools
Educational Collaboratives (100%)
Municipalities – all towns and cities – RINETMUNI
• Contracting Agencies
– Rhode Island Department of Education
– Rhode Island Department of Health
Funding Sources
• Member fees
– Internet Access
• Bandwidth bundled with suite network centric
services
– WAN management services
Network Architecture at
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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
Distributed Network
Architecture
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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
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
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
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
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
Burning Issue?
• Managing changes in
– Relationships
• Constituents
• Champions
• Collaborative partners
– Increasing need for services
– Rapidly emerging technologies