Ohio Digital Government Summit

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Ohio Digital Government Summit

• Broadband and Wireless in Ohio
• October 16, 2007
• Stanley C. Ahalt
• Executive Director

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Broadband in Ohio

• Broadband is vital to economic growth and
  opportunity
• Access to high-speed networks is as critical to
  advanced technology and service industry
  employers as are roads, rails and electric
  service to manufacturers.
• Broadband Ohio is key to the Governors
  Turnaround Ohio plan to create a competitive,
  well-connected state economy.
• Ohio already has become a national leader in
  broadband networking and innovations.

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Gov. Stricklands Vision

• The Broadband Ohio initiative will achieve the
  following goals of Governor Ted Stricklands
  Turnaround Ohio Plan
• Establish Ohio as a world-class competitor by
  making Ohio the national leader in the
  deployment and effective use of broadband
  networking.
• Develop jobs of the future by leveraging the
  states investment in broadband infrastructure to
  create a competitive, well-connected economy in
  Ohio.
• Create cost avoidance through the coordination of
  Ohios public broadband resources, leveraging the
  states significant investments and more
  efficiently operating and spending limited
  resources.

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Vision (cont.)

• A digital divide exists in which many areas of
  the State remain underserved by broadband, while
  affordable access to computing and networks
  remains out of reach to many Ohioans.
• Gov. Strickland seeks to improve Digital
  Inclusion in Ohio through strategic broadband
  investments and planning.
• Full participation in the digital society is
  crucial so that Ohio emerges as a global leader
  in economic development, education, healthcare,
  innovation, world-class research and efficient
  delivery of state services thereby powering
  Ohios economy and connecting to world markets.

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Vision (Cont.)

• When fully implemented, the Broadband Ohio
  initiative will ensure that all Ohios citizens,
  businesses, governments, educational
  institutions, non-profits and healthcare
  facilities have viable access to superior
  broadband services.
• Gov. Strickland signed an executive order July
  26, 2007, that
• Established the Ohio Broadband Council to
  coordinate Ohios significant broadband
  investments.
• Created the Broadband Ohio Network, comprised of
  the new NextGen Network and OSCnet.

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Ohio Broadband Council

• The OBC will direct a unified, statewide effort
• The Council will unite key state agencies to
  direct significant broadband investment and
  develop the phased implementation of Broadband
  Ohio.
• The Council will be responsible for the
  development of a strategic plan for statewide
  broadband deployment, determining the resources
  necessary for its implementation.
• OBC will coordinate all broadband activities that
  receive State appropriated funds and work to
  pursue new federal investments in broadband.
• The Council will establish policies that promote
  new public and private broadband and networking
  investments and develop a strategic plan to
  address digital divide.

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Ohio Broadband Council

• OBC will be co-chaired by
• Ohios Chief Information Officer
• Executive Director of the Ohio Supercomputer
  Center
• OBC will include representatives from
• Ohio General Assembly
• Governors Office of Appalachia
• Board of Regents
• Public Utilities Commission
• Ohio Department of Agriculture
• Ohio Department of Commerce
• Ohio Department of Development
• Ohio Department of Education
• Ohio Department of Health
• Ohio Department of Job and Family Services
• Ohio Department of Public Safety
• Additional appointments by Governor

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Ohio Broadband Council supports implementing
Broadband Ohio plan

• Coordinate investments
• Identify resource needs
• Pursue new federal investments
• Promote public and private broadband services
  and investments
• Expand access statewide

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Broadband Ohio Network

• NextGen Network
• provides broadband services to all state
  executive agencies, boards and commissions
• OSCnet
• formerly the Third Frontier Network
• focuses on innovation, research, education and
  economic competitiveness

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NextGen Network

• The State currently maintains a number of
  distinct, independently operated, leased networks
  carrying data traffic of state agencies and
  connecting them with each of Ohios 88 county
  governments.
• Improved service and significant cost avoidance
  will quickly be realized as the state transitions
  from current expensive leasing arrangements.
• In the first year alone, state agencies should
  realize cost avoidance of 1 million, and within
  three years, cost avoidance of 6 million
  annually.

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NextGen Network

• NextGen Network, to be managed by the Office of
  Information Technology, will provide broadband
  services to state executive agencies, boards and
  commissions.
• OIT will work with all state and local agencies
  to coordinate an orderly transition from legacy
  networks to the NextGen network to ease planning
  and avoid disruption of services.
• Non-executive state agencies and organizations
  are strongly encouraged to connect.

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OSCnet

• OSCnet will continue to be managed by the Ohio
  Supercomputer Center and focus on innovation,
  research, education and economic competitiveness.
• OSCnet is the nations most comprehensive
  statewide fiber-optic-based research and
  education telecommunications network to promote
  economic competitiveness.
• The Ohio Supercomputer Center will develop and
  deploy new technology that focuses on the
  retention, enhancement and attraction of
  high-quality jobs to Ohio.
• OSCnet will continue to serve the needs of higher
  education, K-12 education, public broadcasting,
  healthcare, agriculture and research (local,
  state, federal).

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Backbone Specifications

• Consists of more than 1,850 miles of fiber
  backbone
• Uses DWDM to create a 2.5 Gbps OC-48 or
• Two OC-48 Gbps networks (K-12 higher ed)
• Funding for upgrades to 10 Gbps OC-192 network
• 84 Cisco 15454s switches and 31 Juniper M Series
  routers
• Multi-protocol label switching (MPLS)
  implemented and operational

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OSCnet A national leader

• OSCs mission is to
• Provide highly scalable network connectivity to
  Ohios higher-education community
• Support the educational, research, health care,
  and economic development missions of the states
  universities and colleges
• Support the state agencies that provide
  networking support for other parts of Ohios
  public sector

Ohio is a national leader in the deployment and
effective use of broadband networks.
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OSCnet Serving Higher education

• OSCs networking area serves 84 Ohio higher
  education institutions
• 13 four-year public universities
• 1 stand-alone medical college
• 22 two-year public community and technical
  colleges
• 36 four-year private colleges and universities
• 5 seminaries and theological schools
• 1 proprietary college
• 2 aeronautical institutions
• 2 federal research facilities
• 2 statewide higher education utilities
  (OhioLINK/OLN)
• University System of Ohio

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OSCnet Serving K-12 schools

• OSC serves K-12 and public broadcasting stations
• Provides the backbone network through agreements
  with ODE and eTech
• eTech is the state agency responsible for
  supporting K-12s use of educational technology
  and maintaining a public broadcasting network
• OSC manages the K-12 network at the optical
  layer, while eTech manages the networks higher
  layers and contracts last-mile providers
• 611 K-12 school districts
• 3879 K-12 school buildings

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OSCnet Serving Healthcare

• Seven medical college clients and four hospital
  clients
• In addition to hospitals connected to the medical
  colleges (e.g. OSU Med Center)
• OSCnet identified as the means for
  inter-connecting the states regional health
  information networks
• OSC provided letters of support to Northeast and
  Southeast Ohio health care consortiums in their
  efforts to win the FCC Health care connectivity
  solicitation
• As the use of information technology for health
  care is promoted, OSC expects it will connect a
  growing number of health care organizations to
  OSCnet

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OSCnet Research networks

• OSCnet connects network members to other national
  and regional Research and Education (RE)
  networks
• Internet2/NLR
• MERIT
• Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center (PSC)
• OMNIPoP in Chicago (under construction)

Enables efficient connections between researchers
across the country and the world.
OSCnet/MERIT Partnership MERIT/Chicago
Partnership Possible Future Partnerships
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OSCnet Commodity Internet

• Member of the Quilt
• Four OC-12 Internet and two Gigabit Ethernet
  drains
• Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo and Cincinnati
• Redundant paths to the commercial Internet
• A total of 4.5 Gigabits of commodity bandwidth

Fourth-largest higher education ISP in the
country 20 consumed by Ohio
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OSCnet Videoconferencing
OSC-hosted videoconferences MegaConference 27
countries, 5 continents MegaConference Jr. 170
sites, over 16 countries Indo-US program on
HIV-AIDS World Bank, ERNET, NARI, JHU Global
eHealth Forum Internet2, World Bank South Asia
Meeting Multiple South Asia countries eHealth
East Africa ORENEA, GDLN, SICOT, Internet2 Global
Forum on Road Traffic Trauma World Bank, 6
countries

• NOC for Internet2 Commons
• Statewide videoconferencing services
• Site certifications
• Site coordinator certifications
• MCU management
• Giga- and MegaConferences
• World Bank conferences
• HD videoconferencing
• Advise Regents on telepresence, etc.

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OSCnet Example Connecting Rural Ohio improves
prospects for Appalachian neighborhoods

• Hybrid networking Satellite and wireless
• OSC and OSU-CIO installs satellite dishes, LAN
  antennas and learning centers in Appalachian
  communities
• No current land-based broadband.
• New Straitsville, Chesterhill, Vinton
• Three new sites in the next 18 months
• Part of effort to link instruction and learning,
  teachers and students, schools, homes and
  businesses
• Primary funding from
• American Distance Education Consortium
• Governors Office of Appalachia
• Ohio Community Computing Network

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OSCnet Example Cleveland Institute of Music
performance empowered by networking

• CIM creates and delivers content for a variety of
  educational technology applications, including
• Music master classes with the Manhattan School of
  Music, the Royal Academy of Music in London, and
  the New World Symphony
• Concerts for hundreds of K-12 schools
• In June, CIM performed Ohios first live,
  bi-location concert for OSCs AT Summit two
  musicians in Columbus and three in Cleveland
  performed together via high-definition
  video-stream through OSCnet

OSCnet meets the demanding requirements that let
music educators reach beyond local boundaries.
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OSCnet Example Shared Instrumentation

• Example FEI Sirion Scanning Electron Microscope
  at Center for Accelerated Maturation of
  Materials, OSU
• Demonstrated real-time mouse and keyboard control
  of SEM
• Adding Analytics and Collaboration services
  Image analysis and computational modeling

Example of shared instrumentation application
remote access of electron microscope
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OSCnet Example Columbus Childrens extends
neonatology care via OSCnet

• In 2006, the neonatology unit at Adena Regional
  Medical Center in Chillicothe linked with
  Columbus Childrens Hospital via high-speed
  OSCnet connection
• Enables neonatologists at Childrens to examine
  infants at Adena using telemedicine equipment
  such as an electronic stethoscope
• Specialists can confer with attending physician,
  provide evaluations
• May improve care and eliminate need for travel
  for some patients and families
• Connection made through partnership with Horizon
  Telecom
• 215,000 grant from Board of Regents for a
  demonstration project on OSCnet for telehealth
  applications
• Funding source U.S. Department of Health and
  Human Services

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Broadband Ohio Benefits

• Benefits to citizens
• Equitable Access Broadband Ohio will promote
  access to nearly all of the states citizens.
• Increased Jobs Citizens can increase their job
  skills and attract new and expanded businesses.
• Quality of Life People can more easily locate
  social services and explore distant resources.
• Improved Health Health care workers can better
  consult and share records and instruments.

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Broadband Ohio Benefits

• Benefits to governments and community
  organizations
• Improved Services Ohio will provide improved
  services and promote stronger engagement.
• Consolidated Networking The state can better
  coordinate public broadband resources.
• Lowered Costs State and local governments will
  see cost-savings in procurement and services.
• Homeland Security Post-9-11 initiatives will be
  more effective with increased connectivity.

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Broadband Ohio Benefits

• Benefits to business, industry and the workforce
• More Business Ohio will attract new business,
  retain existing firms and encourage expansion.
• Expanded Training Increased broadband will
  increase workforce computer and business skills.
• Productivity Gains Access will improve
  supply-chain management, finance and human
  resources.
• Service Providers An expanded backbone will
  improve business case for new private investments.

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Broadband Ohio Benefits

• Benefits to education
• Education Teachers will use the Internet as a
  classroom resource to teach students in new ways.
• Collaboration Connectivity will improve access
  for students, economic development and synergy.
• Research Researchers will be able to easily to
  work with distant colleagues and inspire
  students.
• Equipment The initiative will allow researchers
  to more readily share expensive lab instruments.

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Activities and Timeline

• The Council co-chairs currently are working with
  Gov. Strickland to identify individuals to be
  appointed to the Ohio Broadband Council.
• First meeting of the Council is expected in the
  late Fall.

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Broadband Ohio -- Phase One Funding

• The current budget included 20 million of Third
  Frontier Funds, which will
• Leverage the states current investment in OSCnet
  to use available capacity for other state
  functions.
• Establish a network offering expanded bandwidth
  usage for state agencies while avoiding future
  cost increases.
• Establish a foundation upon which access can be
  extended across the state and support advanced IP
  technologies.
• Support outreach activities to articulate plans,
  services and offerings, as well as demonstrate
  options and share case studies.

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Future Investments

• Future investments will fund additional network
  activities
• Additional investments will expand the
  distribution layer (middle-mile access), with the
  goal of extending broadband access to all 88
  counties.
• This effort will focus on using government
  created broadband clusters of demand in
  communities to serve as anchor tenants, thereby
  creating the viable business cases needed for the
  private sector to invest in extending broadband
  to businesses and residents.
• Later phases may include an upgrade of the entire
  network to greater capacities to allow for
  advanced, higher bandwidth applications.

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Questions?

• Contact
• www.ohiobroadbandcouncil.org
• 1-888-672-6382