2003 Annual Business Meeting

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2003 Annual Business Meeting

• May 6, 2003

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House Keeping

• Board Member Voting Closes at 830

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Agenda

• Budget
• Network Issues
• New Services

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Budget Overview
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Wheres the Money Going?
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Network Use Rates

• 2004
• Membership Fee 5,600
• Per megabit Fee 3,200

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Looking Ahead

• What We Know
• What We Dont Know
• Budget Cutting Effort
• On the Road Again
• Last Time
• This Time
• When Mid Sept. in City New You (Hosts?)

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The Network - Nationally

• 3 Complimentary (?) Options
• National Lamba Rail - NLR
• USA Waves
• Fiberco

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National Lambda Rail
SEA
POR
SAC
BOS
NYC
CHI
OGD
DEN
SVL
CLE
WDC
PIT
FRE
KAN
RAL
NAS
STR
LAX
PHO
WAL
ATL
SDG
OLG
DAL
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Why the National View?

• Northern Tier Effort
• UW Madison
• Wis DOT Fiber
• UW System

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More Fiber

• Local Loops
• Why are they important?
• Status
• Milwaukee (UW Milw and City)
• CINC (Eau Claire Area Folks and UW EC)
• Madison (City and UW Madison)
• Others??????

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The Value of New Services

• Were living at a time of highly polarized IT
  directives
• Spend less, but do more.
• Only the directives are polarized.
• The means of achieving the directives are vague,
  fuzzy, and sit strongly in the vast gray gulf
  that separates the polarized ends.

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Back to the Value of Services

• The goal of the education community in Wisconsin
  is to add services that save them money.
• WiscNets goal is to provide those money saving
  services you need, in a manner that they are
  self-supporting.
• Ineed_at_wiscnet.net

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What are we working on?

• Web E-Learning Platforms
• Blackboard
• D2L
• WiscNet Consulting
• Use WiscNet Consulting
• In the area surrounding your router
• To cut through FUD

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More things we are working on

• H.323 Video
• Whitepaper my.wiscnet.net
• Swiss Army Box testing
• Dark fiber / Metropolitan Area Network Management

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MyWiscNet Decision Makers

• Tools to assist you in cutting through the FUD,
  provide you with a template to approach weighing
  the value of WiscNet services.
• WiscNetMail
• Internet Cost (draft)

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The Value of New Services

• The Period It was the best of times, it was the
  worst of times,it was the age of wisdom, it was
  the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of
  belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was
  the season of Light, it was the season of
  Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the
  winter of despair, we had everything before us,
  we had nothing before us, we were all going
  direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the
  other way--in short, the period was so far like
  the present period, that some of its noisiest
  authorities insisted on its being received, for
  good or for evil, in the superlative degree of
  comparison only.-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two
  Cities.