OARnet

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• OARnet
• Client Services
• 8.13.08

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Client Services Focus

• 9 School Visits or in person meetings Since July
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• 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.

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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

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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

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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

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Internet 2 New Pricing Model
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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

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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.

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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- ATT, Qwest,
• Time Warner Cable, Time Warner Telecom,
• Verizon, Buckeye Telesystems
• Remote Campus Connectivity

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Client Services Dana Rogers with Connie Martin
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Client Services Maryann Zbydnowskiwith Nancy
Drugan-Koehler
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Client Services TJ Sandor with Nancy
Drugan-Koehler