Title: UMATS Retreat
1Welcome UMATS Retreat June 21, 2007
2Agenda
- 100 130 State Of UMATS (Jerry Waldron, Norwin
Malmberg) - 130 230 SWOT analysis (Don Spicer)
- 230 245 Break
- 245 315 UMATS moving forward A general
strategic discussion (Jerry Waldron, Don Spicer) - 315 430 Breakout sessions
- 430 Wrap up (Jerry Waldron)
- 630 Dinner at Olde Mill Crab House
3Breakout Sessions
- UMATS governance (Peter Murray, Jeff Huskamp)
- UMATS strategic plan review and update (Jerry
Waldron) - Discussion of external relationships assessment
and opportunities (Jack Seuss, Tony Conto) - Advanced Networking Services Grid Computing,
Disaster Recovery, Remote Visualization,
Tele-medicine, Federated Identification
Management (Suresh Balakrishnan) - Community College partners current and future
plans and directions (Norwin Malmberg)
4State of UMATS UMATS Retreat June 21, 2007
5Accomplishments FY07
- DWDM ring completed 7/06
- Force10 core routers deployed 7/06
- Towson/UB/Coppin/COMB now Gigabit Ethernet 8/06
- 2 OC-3s to Salisbury 9/06, 5/07
- Senior Network Engineer (David Israel) hired
10/06 - Hagerstown Community College connected 10/06
- Director transition 1/07
- CALEA issues resolved for now 2/07
- UMES MFRI site connected 3/07
6Accomplishments FY07 (cont)
- Prince Georges Community College connected 4/07
- UMUC upgraded to Gigabit Ethernet 5/07
- Conversion from CDigix to Ruckus 6/07
7Current UMATS MapBackbone
8Current UMATS MapUniversity of Maryland,
Baltimore Hub
9Current UMATS MapUniversity of Maryland, College
Park Hub
10Current UMATS MapUMBC and 6 St. Paul
11Current UMATS MapSalisbury University Hub
12Current UMATS MapFrostburg State University and
Hagerstown Center
13Upcoming Projects
- 10 Gigabit backbone upgrade
- Fiber connection to UMBI/COMB
- Fiber connection to Shady Grove campus
- UMES Coastal Ecology Teaching Research Center
- USM Office upgrade to DS-3
- New Polycom RMX 2000 video bridge
- Additional Cogent ISP connection 500 Mb in
McLean, VA
14Upcoming Projects
- Barter agreement with networkMaryland for
additional Hagerstown / Frostburg bandwidth - Trading additional 100 Mb of Cogent ISP service
- Increase from existing DS-3 circuits to at least
OC-3
15Upcoming Projects
- Backup microwave connection to Hagerstown /
Frostburg - Suggested by Mark Cather, UMBC
- Path will run from UMBC ? Hagerstown 911 center ?
Frostburg Lowndes Hall - Partnership between UMATS, networkMaryland, and
Sailor - Will provide an alternate path in case of fiber
cut
16Upcoming Projects
- Maryland Broadband Cooperative
- MDBC is running fiber from VA line across Bay
Bridge - Salisbury University is providing MDBC rack space
- Fiber currently runs to NASA / Wallops Island, VA
- UMATS will be providing a DS-3 connection for
NASA through June, 2008 - MDBC will provide 2 pairs of dark fiber from
Salisbury across the Bay Bridge when construction
is completed - UMATS will join MDBC
- Many future possibilities
17BERnetBaltimore Education and Research Network
- Not directly part of UMATS
- Started in 2003 by Mike McCarthy (JHU), Pat
Wallace (Sailor), and Richard Rose (UMATS) - Goal was to provide low cost Internet2 access in
the Baltimore area - Members are UMBC, UMB, JHU, Sailor, Morgan, MAX,
UMATS, and the City of Baltimore
18BERnetBaltimore Education and Research Network
- Initial funding paid for Ciena and Juniper
equipment to provision and utilize an unprotected
OC-48 from College Park to Baltimore, over
existing networkMaryland fiber - Intra-city connections were donated by the City
of Baltimore - Converted to DWDM ring in Summer 2006
- Major upgrade planned for 2007
- 10 Gb Layer2/3 connection along diverse paths
- Unprotected Layer1 connections to NLR, MIT, other
MAX customers, and each other
19Community College Video Network
- CCs will replace MIDLN codecs with standards
based (H.323) codecs Polycom HDX 9002/4 - CCs paying for 2 Polycom RMX 2000 video bridges
- UMATS orders, installs and manages video bridges
- UMATS orders and pays for T1s
- UMATS provides central routers
- CCs pay flat postal rate for each site
- UMATS will hire a student for evening IVN issues
- Expected completion August 1st, 2007
20Community College Video Network
- Anne Arundel Community College 2 sites
- Baltimore City Community College 2 sites
- Carroll Community College
- Chesapeake College 4 sites
- College of Southern Maryland 3 sites
- Frederick Community College
- Garrett College
- Hagerstown Community College
- Howard Community College
- Montgomery College 9 sites
- Prince Georges Community College 2 sites
- Villa Julie College 2 sites
- Wor-Wic Community College 2 sites
21State of UMATS
DOS.