K12 Connectivity Initiative

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K12 Connectivity Initiative

• Ed Chase
• DPI Connectivity Team Lead /
• E-rate Coordinator
• Technology Directors Meeting
• August 13, 2008

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Roles and Relationships

• Program Management
• E-rate Assistance
• Fiscal Agent

• Backbone connectivity, operations
• Engineering Services
• Community building
• Invest in innovative services and applications

• Advice and counsel
• Evaluation of benefits

• Contracting agency for backbone, circuits and
  services
• Program Management assistance

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Financial FY08
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FY09 Funding

10,000,000 addition for Connectivity We need to
thank many for this! 22,000,000 total
re-occurring funds for School Connectivity A
strong majority of funds will again go to LEA
financial support for networking costs
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E-rate Funding with the Connectivity Project

• Provides the LEAs with over 2,000,000 worth of
  annual telecommunications services
• Out of pocket cost will be roughly 500,000.

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E-rate Funding

• 2007 USAC approved 66,000,000 for NC
  applicants
• only 28,000,000 has been utilized
• year end close out is important for each LEA
• Each year many applicants go through the
  process and are approved and then fail to
  invoice USAC for funds

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E-rate / Technology Planning for FY10

• Priority One Services (Examples)
• Telecomm Data Circuits
• Internet Service
• Telecomm Voice Services
• Cellular Services (including Smart Phones)
• Web Hosting
• Email Service

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E-rate Service for LEAs

• E-rate Training this fall
• Assist with RFPs and 470s
• Become a second set of eyes (if you wish) to look
  over applications before you click submit.
• Assist with the 471s as needed.
• Remind and/or call as deadlines approach for the
  472s, 486s and other deadlines.
• Assist with LEAs with alternative discount
  mechanisms
• Assist LEAs with E-rate / Tech Planning

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School Allotment Process

• Allotment Process for FY09
• Packet to go out very soon
• We will need signed and returned
• Letter of Agency
• Memorandum of Understanding
• SUMMARY page of WAN and ISP bill
• We hope to get these back by September 30, 2008
  so that the
• allotment funds can be distributed earlier than
  last year.

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A Very Special Thank You to Phil Emer

• Instrumental Leadership for Development of the
  Connectivity
• Plan
• Will still assist the School Connectivity Project
  
• Neutral 3rd party Council and Validation
• Evaluation of the benefits of this project

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Please contact with any questions or comments.

Thank you!

• Ed Chase
• DPI Connectivity Team Lead /
• E-rate Coordinator
• 919-812-5666
• echase_at_dpi.state.nc.us
• Financial and Business Services Annual Conference
  
• July 24th, 2008

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K12 Connectivity Milestones

• Work by MCNC on project of connecting each LEA
  began in earnest May 1
• Interaction between LEA technical directors,
  school system technical staff, access carriers,
  and MCNC has been outstanding
• As of today 93 sites are on net or have defined
  due dates planned before end of September

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Progress on Project
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Progress on Integration

• Finishing Steps
• Approximately 25 LEAs still need to have
  solutions identified
• Need to finalize interconnect of LEA local
  infrastructure to NCREN demarcation point

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Make the Network Work for You
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Upgrades for NCREN FY09

• Investment to upgrade of core aggregation
  infrastructure at RPOPs (Done)
• Investment to acquire key fiber paths within
  state, Charlotte/Raleigh, Raleigh/Wilmington
  (Done)
• Investment to deploy underlying optical
  infrastructure between Charlotte/Raleigh
  (October-December 2008)
• Investment in to deployment of new layer-3
  backbone in central core to have resilient 10Gbps
  architecture (November-December 2008)

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Network Engineering Resources

• School Connectivity Initiative funds a network
  consulting
• service bureau to make highly skilled
  technical resources
• available to all LEAs.
• Client Network Engineering (CNE) is the network
  consulting
• service bureau
• Provide network engineering and support
  including design
• services, technical guidance and advice,
  product
• assessment and recommendations, guidelines and
  best
• practices
• Network health assessment
• Measure and document network functionality and
• performance of the LEA network
• Contact
• Dave Furiness, Mgr. Client Network Eng.
• Gonz Guzman, MCSE, RHCE, CISSP
• Jeremiah Jackson, MCSE, RHCE
• Client Network Engineering email - cne_at_mcnc.org

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CNE Engagements - Examples

• What we do..
• Provide subject matter expertise related to
  client networking
• Training - promote/facilitate self-sufficiency
• Reduce LEA expenditures for network consulting

• Mitchell County Schools WAN migration to
  Metro-Ethernet
• Pamlico County Schools network assessment
• Person County Schools WAN migration to
  Metro-Ethernet, network redesign, switch and
  firewall configuration support

• Asheville City Schools SharePoint support and
  network assessment
• Bladen County Schools switch and firewall
  configuration support
• Brunswick County Schools network assessment
• Montgomery County Schools network assessment
  and firewall configuration support

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Edspace Information Hub

• How to access Edspace?

• What is Edspace?

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K20 Connectivity Initiative

• Joe Freddoso
• President and CEO, MCNC
• LEA Tech Directors Conference
• August 13, 2008

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Value

• Reliable And Efficient
• Performance-Need your feedback here
• Equity
• Access to curricular and professional dev.
  content
• Collaborate /Community
• K12 with higher ed
• Investment Now and Future
• CNE
• 1.5 M in innovation
• Economics
• Operate At Cost
• Capital covered by Endowment

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Our Unique Position

• MCNC
• Endowment only state network with one
• Existing backbone
• North Carolina one of leaders in pursuing K20
• Content and administration moving quickly to
  on-line
• Public sector/private partnership to build
• State network
• District
• School
• Classroom

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NCREN Community Innovation
NCREN Community
MCNC Funds
Partner
Cost Recovery
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Investment in Innovation
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Key MCNC Staff for K12

• Tommy Jacobson Director Engineering and Chief
  Network Architect
• Dave Furiness - Client Network Engineering Leader
• Darleene Heath K12 Advocate
• Ray Suitte - Manager, Network Operations and the
  NOC Team
• Todd Broucksou Director Operations