The Foothill-De Anza Technology Environment Willie Pritchard Vice Chancellor, Technology.

The Foothill-De Anza Technology Environment

Willie Pritchard

Vice Chancellor, Technology

Goals for the session

Show models of current technology environment– Physical– Network– Software

Help audience understand technology challenges and opportunities

Layout a road map for our near term future Provide a glimpse of our longer term future

CAUTION

TECHNICAL JARGON

AHEAD

PhysicalNetworkSoftware

Technology Layers

Think of our technology environment as a series of layers…

Now we’ll take one layer at a time.

First the physical environment…

Computers, servers, switches, printers,cablecable, switches, routers, hubs, software,applications, browsers, databases, educational information system

Physical Environment

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What are the characteristics of an “excellent” network?

– Reliable– Secure– Fast

What technical requirements ensure each?– Firewall – Lots of bandwidth– Authentication/Authorization– Switched network– Segmented networks (VLANs)– VPN

Network Environment

PhysicalNetwork

What are the characteristics of an “excellent” network?

– Reliable– Secure– Fast

What technical requirements ensure each?– Firewall (Reliable, Secure)– Lots of bandwidth (Fast) – Authentication/Authorization (Reliable, Secure)– Switched network (Secure, Fast)– Segmented networks (VLANs) (Reliable, Secure, Fast)– VPN (Secure)

Network Environment

PhysicalNetwork

Network Environment

Two ways to view our network– Physical Network– Virtual Network

PhysicalNetwork



Foothill Physical Network

ADF (hub)

Backbone

SpokesPhysicalNetwork

De Anza Physical Network

ADF (hub)

Backbone

SpokesPhysicalNetwork

Virtual Network

What are VLANs?– “Virtual Local-Area Networks” – A “virtual” method for separating an enterprise

network into different segments (LANs) for performance and security

– The FHDA network has several VLANs• Open (to the world)• Secure (only authorized users have access)• Academic (for instructional uses)

– Based on physical location of network jack– Not currently applicable to wireless

PhysicalNetwork

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Virtual Network Environment



Off Campus

UsersCampus

Users

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Campus Users

Off Campus

Users

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Security for Outside Access

We need a Virtual Private Network (VPN)– Provides secure method for connecting from

off campus to our Secure VLAN• Authentication• Authorization• Encryption• Tunneling

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Campus Users

Off Campus

Users

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Software Environment

Software Environment State of our current software environment

– Multiple applications– Multiple interfaces– Steep learning curve– Incompatible applications– Multiple passwords and accounts– Expensive to acquire, develop, or replace– Multiple database formats– Inflexible backend database for our information

system


Software Environment

DesktopApplications

Middleware

BackendDatabases

&Applications



Browsers

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Oracle Portal

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Meeting MakerIR Data WarehouseAutomated workflowStudent TrackingTouchNet RegistrationSIRSITech Helpwww.foothill.eduAccuStreamGo PrintSEVISResource 25Student ID cardsCATSMS Active DirectoryETUDES-ng

Java, JavaScript

HTML, XHTML

XML

SOAP

JSR 168

WSRP

APIs


RDB



“Network-aware” applications

New Portal Environment…

Will provide the following remedies– Single sign-on– Unified interface– Integrated applications– One-stop shop– Inexpensive, quick development– Portable to new information system– Individualization and customization– Transparent backend databases– Little training needed


FHDA Portal

What is a portal?– An electronic, personalized, customized

newspaper


FHDA Portal What is it?

– Entrance (portal) to all of your district resources


FHDA Portal

What is it?– Uses standard web technologies

• Graphical User Interface• Industry standards

– Made up of channels (or portlets) of information and functionalities

– Provides access to many different resources


FHDA Portal What kind of channels/portlets are there?

– Informational• News, weather, book and movie reviews• Campus news, events, significant dates

– Functional• Workflow processes (timesheets, evaluations, grade submittals, etc.)• Data retrieval• Search tools

Where do we get portlets?– CampusEAI Consortium (open source)– Develop ourselves


FHDA Portal

How is it customizable?– By group

• Students• Faculty• Staff• Managers• Campus (Foothill, De Anza, Central Services)


FHDA Portal

How is it personalized?– Each individual will have a selection of portlets

to choose from– Some portlets will be required of all

• Emergency notifications

– Some will be required of certain groups• Students – registration• Employees – workflow


FHDA Portal

Demonstration of current prototype– Lots of work yet to be done– This is not the final design– Many more portlets to acquire and build


FHDA Portal What are some possible portlets?

Daily planner

Campus Headlines

Campus Views

My Degree Progress report

Academic Information

Employment opportunities

Library check out record

Campus web search

This month in campus history

IT Services Announcements

RSS & Blogs

Slashdot

Email

Campus News

Campus Events

My demographic info

My schedule

Parking Waiting lists

Poll

16 favorite web sites

Today in history

MSN Money Stock Ticker

Search Movie database

Weather

Live on campus

Film reviews

Word of the day

Blackboard

LDAP authentication

InfiNET

Book Reviews

SciFi Storm

Search pulldown

Film Society

News

IT eStores (Apple, Dell, etc.)

HR "open area"

Emergency notification

Library pathfinders

TV Show news

Online phone directoryPhysicalNetworkSoftware

FHDA Portal What portlets might we develop?

Data query tool

CATS

CMS (ETUDES) integration

Workflow (forms) processing

Faculty access to SIS

Library records

Interface to Meeting MakerHR info update

Financial Aid applications

Class rostersBookstore

Benefits Enrollment

Survey Portlet

Early Alert for students

Voter registration

Interface to TouchNet Registration

Transcript request?


FHDA Portal

What is the timeline for implementation?– As fast as we can do within the constraints we have

What still needs to be done?– User interface design underway– Identity Management – Authentication & Authorization– FHDA portlets need to be developed


Workflow (Forms) Processing

How does it work?– Applies logic to the flow of our paperwork– Allows for electronic distribution through the web– Electronic approvals

Examples– Timesheets/payroll– Faculty Evaluation– Grade Submittals– Next?



Remember the three layers…

On most projects and work requests,we have to deal with all three

Computers, servers, switches, servers,cablecable, switches, routers, hubs, software,applications, browsers, databases, educational information system

Technology Layers

Questions?

The Foothill-De Anza Technology Environment Willie Pritchard Vice Chancellor, Technology.

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