UC Davis

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UC Davis
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UC Davis

• Networks that enable

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The Vision

• We will create new ways to develop the
  intellectual and leadership capacity of our
  graduate, undergraduate, and professional
  students..We will continue to lead nationally
  and internationally through our research programs
  by investing in the established and emerging
  intellectual strengths of our faculty. Chancellor
  Vanderhoef UC Davis Strategic Plan

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The Driving Factor

• UC Davis has a reputation as a research
  university "on the move." It has successfully
  recruited world-class faculty . with recognized
  research and graduate strengths in the use of
  computational resources. 
• This makes an agile, effective support
  infrastructure a priority.

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Critical Network Issues

• Competition for Infrastructure funding
• Academic programs are becoming increasingly
  technology dependent
• Existence of hard stops

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Hard Stops

• Manufacturer support unavailable
• Parts available from third party sources
• No secondary delivery capability
• Uncertain recovery timeframe
• Failure introduces campuswide catastrophic impact

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The Hard Stops
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Current Issues

• Systems are currently deployed and managed
  as separate stand-alone services
• Wireless network services as an add-on component
• Campus data network is at the end of its
  life-cycle
• No single strategic network services architecture

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Strategic Direction
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Options

• Maintain the status quo
• Improve our current position
• Begin investment into tomorrows systems

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The Goal
Improve Our Position
The Status Quo
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Recommendation

• UCDNet3 network option
• Positions the campus to meet constituent demand
  for more and faster network services
• Supports executive direction to invest in people
  and infrastructure to position this campus as a
  pre-eminent R1 institution
• Proactively addresses most known and emerging
  service functionality requests

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Recommendation

• UCDNet3 network improvements
• Data Network
• Wireless Network
• Network Security
• Voice Network
• Video Services
• Cellular Services
• Converged Services
• Disaster Recovery
• Off-campus Services
• Building Wiring
• Public Safety

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Relative Costs
xNet
UCDNet3
Legacy Upgrade
Legacy
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Discussion