Annie Stunden

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Planning the Campus Technology Infrastructure
Campus Planning Committee February 27, 2003
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• Annie Stunden
• CIO Director
• Division of Information Technology
• University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Planning Considerations

• The 21st Century Network
• Technology Support for Learning Teaching
• The Technology Infrastructure
• To Support Research
• To Support Administration
• Security
• Disaster Prevention Recovery
• Space for the IT staff and programs

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The 21st Century Network

• Backbone and in-building fiber, wire, and
  electronics
• Closets
• Wireless
• Redundancy
• Timing
• Network management
• Paying for the network

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The 21st Century Network
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Campus Network Structure
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Technology Support for Learning and Teaching

• Large lecture halls - what technology should be
  there?
• Small classrooms - network connectivity
• Labs versus collaborative work spaces
• Do we need labs?

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• What is the role of video in teaching and
  learning?
• How about virtual learning worlds?
• How will we build and support information
  repositories?
• Can we support students well who dont live in
  the residence halls?
• What kind of technology will students bring to
  campus?

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Technology Infrastructure

• Its a utility - always there - always on
• Hardware environment
• Software environment
• Shared services - such as mail, calendar, print
  services, file services
• Identification, authentication, authorization

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• The grid environment for researchers (and for
  others)
• End user access for administrative systems
• The desktop challenge - here is where we
  encounter the bleeding edge, folks we leave
  behind
• And what about those little things - hand held
  devices?

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• And the tough issue of what is distributed and
  what is central. The challenge increases to
  address this in a meaningful way as financial
  constraints as well as security constraints
  increase.

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Security

• Physical security for network and servers -
  closets, machine rooms
• Security of data
• That HIPAA, FERPA, SEVIS, USA Patriot Act stuff
• Hackers and viruses
• Physical, technical and policy considerations

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Disaster Prevention Recovery

• Backup in Peterson Building machine room
• Remote management (ongoing)
• Storage systems (ongoing)
• How do we plan for Peterson Building going away?
• Backup power for machine rooms
• Disaster recovery program
• Technology only? Or, also user recovery?

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Space

• DoIT leases space in Research Park
• DoIT has folks in store front space on University
  Avenue
• We need to do some longer term space planning and
  find shorter term better solutions for the
  Research Park folks - and maybe the University
  Avenue folks.

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In Summary

• IT has become pervasive and foundational
• Capabilities and services are taken for granted
• And the technology baseline is changing all the
  time

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How this relates to the capital plan

• Fiber and cabling
• Ample single mode fiber runs to current buildings
  and all new buildings
• Appropriate vertical and horizontal runways in
  new buildings - and upgrades in existing
  buildings
• Adoption of category 6 cabling standard for new
  and replacement building networks

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• Standards for telecommunications rooms
• Size
• Quantity
• Electricity
• HVAC
• Not shared
• Secured
• Renovations necessary in many places on campus

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• Computer Rooms
• Is it time to ask if we should consolidate rooms
  to avoid duplicating facilities - and to ensure
  security, redundancy, back-up?
• Minimally, we need to develop and adopt standards
  for some facilities including security.
• Teaching and Learning Spaces
• Time to initiate a planning process with faculty
  about teaching and learning space needs and how
  they mesh with the capital plan
• The wired vs wireless question will come to the
  ITC for review again in the early fall

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• DoIT works with the ITC and the new NTF (network
  task force) to establish guidelines and standards
• DoIT works with FPM to gain adoption of the
  guidelines and standards

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• Can technology considerations be more integrated
  in the capital planning process? How can we do
  that? (And technology considerations are often a
  moving target).
• Can technology leaders be included in the capital
  planning process to raise key issues and
  questions? (eg Peterson Building is a core
  network node. We need to plan for relocation).

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Regardless

• We need a new and different kind of technology
  plan - a campus plan
• And we need to maintain maximum flexibility in
  that plan
• So - the next step is to initiate a campus
  technology planning process.

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Thanks for inviting me!

• You have pushed me to face the need for that
  campus plan