OARnet Client Services8.13.08

Client Services Focus

• 9 School Visits or in person meetings Since July 1

• Cleveland Technology Fair 9.18.08

Bandwidth Statistics

• Beginning of FY08 = 3022 Mbs

• End of FY08 = 4297 Mbs

• Current BW for FY09 = 4987 Mbs

• Approximately a 39% Increase in bandwidth from the start of FY08 and the start of FY09.

• Approximately a 9% Increase in I1 from 6/30/08 to 7/1/08.

Client Services Focus

New Co-location Facility has 11 current customers

– 6 budgeted for ’08 with plans to move in fall

New Academic members: – Mercy College-Connected– Lourdes College – Union Institute-delayed to next calendar year– Franciscan College-almost complete

Client Services Focus

• New FTE Pricing –Questions-concerns?

• New GIG Opteman to Rio Grande to replace GIGAMAN to service University of Rio Grande, Rio Grande Community College and hospitals and local government.

• Marietta GIG Opteman Ordered to service Community

Client Services Focus

– Dayton/Akron PoPs upgraded completed– Internet 2

• Conference in Oct. in New Orleans.• TJ and Ann to do Presentation for K-20 on Remote

instrumentation projects in collaboration with OSC and member schools.

• Participate in demo of Remote Instrumentation• Ohio K-12 connected July 1 to Internet 2

– Increased Collaboration efforts- combining efforts with OLN, OhioLink, eTECH

– Video Collaboration OIT, eTech, OSC– OCLC PoP-Services -Almost Complete

Internet 2 New Pricing Model

OSTEER Member Rates

SEGP Rates

Min Max Price

0 2 $ 3,500

3 5 $ 7,000

6 10 $ 12,000

11 20 $ 20,000

21 100 $ 40,000

OSTEER Member Rates

I2 Consortium Rate

$ 63,514

Non-OSTEER Member Rates

SEGP Rates

Min Max Price

0 2 $ 3,850

3 5 $ 7,700

6 10 $ 13,200

11 20 $ 22,000

21 100 $ 44,000

Non-OSTEER Member Rates

I2 Consortium Rate

$ 69,865

Client Services Focus

Emergency Web Hosting

Notify your constituency of an emergency situation affecting your campus or facility!

•  Basic emergency web presence in the event that your primary web presence becomes unreachable.

• Emergency Web Hosting– Oberlin College Pilot– Establish Yearly pricing

Emergency Web Hosting

• This is a hosted service on the OSCnet State-of-the-art backbone.

• OARnet provides all software and hardware for basic service.

• Use secure FTP access to upload simple html pages to a web site with 1 GB of allotted storage space to access and maintain files.

• This emergency site can provide as little or as much information as you wish your viewers to have in the event of an emergency.

• Finally, switching to and from the emergency web site will be as easy as calling the OARnet Support Center and your web presence will available within 2 hours of your call.

Client Services Focus• New FTE pricing model: Unlimited IntraOhio

bandwidth

• Continue to support numerous higher education in Research Initiatives and Community Development.

• Video conference Initiatives.

• Vendor meetings and initiatives- AT&T, Qwest,

Time Warner Cable, Time Warner Telecom,

Verizon, Buckeye Telesystems

• Remote Campus Connectivity

Client Services – Dana Rogers with Connie Martin

Client Services – Maryann Zbydnowskiwith Nancy Drugan-Koehler

Client Services – TJ Sandor with Nancy Drugan-Koehler