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GYRD 3V NetworkGYRD 3V Network

. . . a standards. . . a standards--based videoconference networkbased videoconference network

cascading to a provincial videoconferencecascading to a provincial videoconferencenetwork?network?

J. E. PercevaultJ. E. Percevault May 29, 1115 to 1215May 29, 1115 to 1215 H003H003

Interface 2003Interface 2003 ---- The Power of LearningThe Power of Learning

ftp://www.gyrd.ab.ca/pub/gyrd/esc/3V/Interface2003.ppt


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Videoconference Vision? Cross-sector: ministry to ministry SuperNet?

Inter-jurisdiction: school jurisdiction to school jurisdiction, healthauthority to health authority, etc SuperNet?

Intra-jurisdiction: site to site SuperNet?

Stakeholder expectations and requirements: MLAs, trustees,community members, parents, students, administrators, staff members?


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Required Outcomes

Ease of use: end-user operation without on-site or dial-up technicalsupport a production system

Reliability: investment works (i.e. expectation of a telephone system)

Multipoint: beyond point-to-point (i.e. 3-, 4-, 6- or 12-point conferencing)

Self supporting: internal support, intelligent tools, no external contracts

Lowest costs: capital, bandwidth and support (operating)


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What we know . . .

Health Sector: defined sector standard; initial funding matched to the standard(H.320/H.323); adoption and use; requirement to go forward on the SuperNetwithoutother public sectors?

Learning: four different technical solutions lack of a standard?

ASBOA: May 2002 resolution to adopt a sector/industry standard

CASS: November 2002 agreement to adopt a sector/industry . . .

Invitational Videoconference Symposium: March 2003 overwhelmingsupport for a provincial/sector/industry . . .

SuperNetUsers Group: Health, Learning, Libraries, Municipalities videoconference subcommittee

Chief Information Officers: dialogue on standards including videoconferencetechnologies


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Challenges Applications

Meetings: administration, board, joint school council, psychologicalassessment services, technology, facilities/maintenance, transportation,associations/union, interagency (SHIP, Fire Departments, TownCouncils)

Professional development: ATA, CUPE, bus drivers

Teacher collaboration: subject specialists, curriculum coordinators;cooperative projects among elementary classrooms

High school online delivery: among schools and off campuscentres intra-jurisdiction only?


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Challenges Technical

Jurisdiction wide-area network: jurisdiction standard for productintegration industry standards and proprietary extensions off-the-shelftechnologies (dialing directory, asset management), quality of servicemanagement (intranet jurisdiction VPN easy)

JP GYRD 3V VPN: prototype SuperNetVPN (use of GYRD registeredClass C -- easy)

Sector network: shared network ministry standards (extranet ministryVPN -- complex); agreements or directives?

Provincial videoconference network: shared standards andresources, standard solution (call processing/ proxy, network routing,cascaded dialing directory gate keeping, shared bridges); agreements ordirectives? (provincial VPN complex)


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Edson 4 FXs

Jasper

FX

Hinton

FX

Evansburg

FX

Grande Cache

FXFulham

Niton

FXWildwood

GYRD 3V3VVideoconference Network

11 4-point codecs/MCUs; 14 pending 03/04 fiscal year

40 desktop videoconference codecs; 30 pending

1 12-port multipoint bridge, 1 dialing directory, 1 asset management system, 1

reservation system; additional blade(s) and software pending, SuperNet

bandwidth upgrade

H.323 Industry standard technologies (i.e. matched to Health)


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SJ 1

(CP Proxy, DD)

S1 SX

SJ X

(CP Proxy, DD)

S1 SX

HA 1

(CP Proxy, DD)

S1 SX

HA X

(CP Proxy, DD)

S1 SX

Learning

(CP Proxy, DD)

Health

(CP Proxy, DD)

Provincial

Prov. VC VPN call processing, shared MCUs, dialing directory

SuperNet VPNs Subset and VC

Red=Firewall, Blu

e=VC, Black=Data

JP GYRD 3V VPN


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Provincial VC VPN

Requirement: industry standard H.323; multi-vendor endpoint options

Standard solution: preferred single-vendor solution (cascaded dialing directory,call processing/routing, shared bridges); provincial VPN rules (INNSCI), sector VPNrules (Learning), jurisdiction VPN rules; release management update strategy

Process: Research (SNUG videoconference subcommittee); request for information(RFI) or request for proposal (RFP)

Build: private sector or public sector?

JP GYRD 3V VPN: quick deployment, proof of concept, H.323, SuperNetbandwidthupgrade, shared MCU, shared address space, shared dialing directory


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Example Technologies Suite: sample layout; other options for desired applications (e.g. distance

education, admin conferencing, elementary school library configurations)?

PC: videophones and software control system

Peripherals: document cameras, SVGA projection and graphics tablets,other technologies, multipoint connections?

Support Technologies: remote management, asset management,reservation system, asynchronous solutions


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Education Services Centre 3V3Vsuite


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JPs PC: Camera/video/audio codec


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JPs PC on 4-point (2 desktops, 2 suites)


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Main setup screen


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Shared Address Book


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JPs Shared Address Book


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Remote Control


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Software Remote Control

point-to-point (Edson, Hinton)


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SVGA Projection Document Camera


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JPs Diary -- November

4th 0700 to 0830 Hinton Technology sub-office to ESC Tech SuperNet;0900 to 1000 Centrinity dial-in, ESC, HCHS, JJSHS, GCCHS

5th 1300 to 1400 GCCHS fire dept. training ESC Penthouse; 1600 to 1700ICT database inservice for teachers, day four

6th 08301200 GYRD Phase IV technology committee, 11 elementary STC,JJSHS, HCHS, GCCHS, ESC Penthouse

7th 1300 to 1500 meeting with high school principals on distance educationplanning; PCHS, HCHS, GTHS, GCCHS

Other activities: French tutoring, Math 31 tutoring, Reading for Successstudy group, high school principals meeting


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Admin Setup

via IE


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System Management via IE


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Educational 2003/04Educational 2003/04

Distance Delivery: GCCHS and JJSHSMath 31, PCHS 630-level CTS modules, GTHS and NChigh school science, Off

Campus offerings -- context of declining rural enrollments; board

funded initiatives

Teacher/researcher secondment: second year focus onmethodologies, synchronous and asynchronous technologies,

research on students perspectives, administrative issues,

documentation of successes and challenges; partnership with

ADLC

Divisional: direction for a common school year and a commontimetable structure 2004/05 year


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Prof. Growth 2003/04Prof. Growth 2003/04

Professional Growth Committee: regular committee andplanning meetings

Curriculum Coordinator and Manager of Programs and

Curriculum: curricular inservice (emerging curricular changes English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, ICT toolkit,

teachers web links committee, etc.), math study, Reading

Recoveryand Reading for Success

Technical: school technology contacts Phase IV elementarynetwork upgrades, email conferences, videoconference

technologies, technology committee


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Administrative 2003/04Administrative 2003/04 Tuesday morning administrative meetings: principals and

Director of Education (change in practice starting January 2003);

other admin meetings

Priority Area Leadership Strategy teams (PALS): threeprincipals, one central office staff member release time to craft

divisional strategies and reporting mechanisms

AISI: Program coordinator and school-based team leaders parallelstrategies for school-based curriculum coordinators, school

technology contacts etc.


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Technical 2003/04Technical 2003/04

Elementary schools and off campus: FXs (pending supportto H.264 video), Visual ConcertFXs, PCs with ViaVideos 5.0

Other investments: Accordexternal 12 port blade and audioblade (i.e. separate SuperNetVPN; discrete firewall/proxy,

gatekeeper/call processing GYRD SuperNetbandwidth: 100/26 service (6 gold, 20

bronze) to all sites; 1000/100 service (33 gold, 67 bronze) to

headend

JP GYRD 3V VPN: external prototype with externalstakeholders; implications for YREC, ADLC/Off Campus and

GYRD alliance jurisdictions


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Summary ItemsSummary Items Clear wins: professional development, meetings, and

collaborative projects calculate return on investment (RIO)

Research on best practices: successful distance educationprograms at the high school level

Planning issues: distance education among high schools

timetables and calendars, programming needs, requiredinstructional facilities, asynchronous support technologies, smart

boards, etc.


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Up-to-date videoconferencelinks, scroll down


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Questions and Answers

Distance learning?

Administrative?

Professional development?

Technologies and investments?

JP GYRD 3V VPN?

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