Shared Services & Collaborations
Presenter: Pankaj Shah
Executive Director, OARnet
March 3, 2009
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Today’s Presentation
• Chancellor’s Strategic Plan for Higher Education
• OARnet latest maps
• OARnet Guiding Principles
• OARnet impact to community
• OARnet services
• Impact to clients and partners
• Shared Services – various approaches
– VMware
– Video Conferencing & Telepresence
– Identity Management
• Survey’s
– Product & Services
– Data Center
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Strategic Plan for Higher Education
Implications for OARnet
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Strategic Plan
• Legislature and
Governor asked the
Chancellor Fingerhut to
develop a strategic
plan for higher
education
• Chancellor Fingerhut
delivered the Strategic
Plan for Higher
Education on March
31.
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Basics of the Plan
• Higher education institutions will work together in
new ways to aggressively pursue the goals of the
strategic plan
• Higher education resources including those of the
technology initiatives to be aligned to the plan
• An integrated technology infrastructure required
for the success of the plan
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Many Impacts on Networks
• “30 Mile Guarantee”
– Will need campuses across the state with adequate
connections to OARnet and campus networks that can
support the wide spread use of video conferencing
• Federated authentication
• Support Broadband Ohio
• Networking needed for supercomputing and
research excellence
• Shared Services Infrastructure
• Aggregation buys
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Integrated Technology Infrastructure
• A cutting-edge technology infrastructure
• Anticipates Ohio Board of Regents Technology
Initiatives will work together in new ways to
provide this infrastructure
• New needs and goals require new governance
and advisory structures
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Implications for OARnet
• Creation of Integrated Technology Infrastructure
began on May 14 when three directives issued on
the governance of OSC, OLN, OhioLINK, and
OARnet
• New governance committee includes Ohio Board
of Regents, Ohio Department of Development,
Governor’s Office, Office of Information
Technology, and Ohio Department of Education
• New BOR-CIO Advisory Board formed
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OARnet –
Network as a
first shared
service since
1987
As of 2/20/2009
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Regional Optical Network Partners
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National Regional Networks
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OARnet Impact on community:
• A $20-60 Million cost savings to Higher Ed over next
20 yrs
• Provide enriched content and advanced applications
including video, multimedia, distance learning, remote
surgery, remote robotics, remote microscopy, etc.
• Qwest used a “capacity swap” to enable affordable
internet connectivity to eTech (Public-Private
Partnership)
– eTech’s internet rates lowered by approximately 50%
• A 61% decrease in network cost for higher education
users
• Plays a vital role along with State OIT on Broadband
Stimulus projects
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OARnet – Commodity Internet Subscriptions
Subscriptions (I1)
6,000.00
5,000.00
4,000.00
Subscriptions (I1)
3,000.00
2,000.00
1,000.00
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Yr 02-03
Yr 03-04
Yr 04-05
Yr 05-06
Yr 06-07
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Yr 07-08
Yr 08-09
OARnet – Commodity Internet Pricing
$300
$250
$200
Port Fee - Avg Price/mbps
$150
Internet 1 - Price/mbps
$100
$50
$0
Yr 01-02
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Yr 02-03
Yr 03-04
Yr 04-05
Yr 05-06
Yr 06-07
Yr 07-08
Yr 08-09
OARnet Impact on Our Clients
Summary of the Change in Last-mile Connections
to Higher Education Organizations
Capacity
Prior to OSCnet
Implementation - 2003
After OSCnet
Implementation - 2008
Gigabit or more
45mb - 155mb
10mb - 44mb
9bm or less
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0
46
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OARnet Impact on Partners
Summary of the Change in Last-mile Connections
to Related Communities
• K-12 Facilities
– 23 ITCs and 7 large urban schools migrated from DS3
to a gigabit last-mile connection
– Ohio K-12 joins Internet2 through HE Ohio Valley I2 Consortium
• Public Television Stations
– 9 stations migrated from 45mb to a 620mb last-mile connection
• Federal Research Facilities
– NASA Glenn migrated from 45mb to a gigabit last-mile connection
– Wright Patterson under development
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OARnet Impact on Partners
Summary of the Change in Last-mile Connections
to Related Communities
• State Agencies
– 10 state agencies (50 sites) have upgrade T-1 connections to 10mb or
greater since January, 2008 and connected to BON
• Local Government
– Four local governments have upgrade their bandwidth to broadband
services
– Three new Pilot projects are under way for Rio Grand, City of Galion and
Lancaster to provision broadband services
• Health Care
– Completed Adena Hospital Broadband Project and currently working on
similar projects with Childrens’ Hospital’s Neo-Natal program in
Portsmouth, Zanesville, Findlay, and Marietta
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Shared Services – 1st approach
VMware – Aggregation buy
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VMware Project Benefits
• Designed to potentially save Ohio colleges and
universities more than $130 million over three
years through:
– Significant cost reductions in physical IT hardware
(servers, desktops) budgets
– Significant reduction in operational and maintenance
costs while upgrading to superior maintenance levels
– Positive environmental “Green IT” impact, due to lower
use of energy and space
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VMware Project Status
• Developing program for state government to
participate in the program, with a target date of
March 1, 2009.
• Conversion of existing VMware product
maintenance to the new OARnet program to
reduce operating cost, scheduled for completion
by June 2009.
• Implementing K-12 quote and order form by
January 15.
• Power consumption benchmarking pilot at OU
• Thin-client testing at ITEC-Ohio in collaboration
with USO
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Shared Services – 2nd approach
High bandwidth applications over the
network
Videoconferencing & Telepresence
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Ohio Videoconferencing Services
• New Structure
– Collaboration of eTech Ohio, OARnet, OIT
• New Rate
– $150-$250 per month/per site (Old rate $350-450/month)
• Services
– Unlimited VC, bridged or point-to-point
– Video NOC services: 7am–10pm, Mon-Fri
– Online reservation system available 24x7
– ISDN gateway service
– Satellite downlink integration
– High-definition video bridging
– Access to Internet2 content
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Other Allied Services
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Video streaming
Conference recording
Transcoding
Digital asset management repository
High-end Telepresence applications
Up and Down Satellite feeds
Examples of Concierge Services
• Cleveland Institute of Music concerts
• Remote use of scientific instruments
• VIP and Executive briefings
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Levels of Videoconferencing
Web Conferencing
• PC and small camera
• Collaboration tools such as Skype, Elluminate, Dimdim
• Fair quality
Standard H.323 Video Conferencing
• Most common type today
• Good quality
High-Definition H.323 Video Conferencing
• Like HDTV
• Excellent quality
Telepresence
• HD, plus appearance of being in the same room
• Note there are a few other systems that do not fit into these categories
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Telepresence Pilot Program
• LifeSize Corp was the first to offer low-cost, high-def VC.
• Now, offered in relatively inexpensive kit version
– $70k includes installation and one year of maintenance
• OARnet pilot program features two systems:
– Four cameras with touch-screen control system
– Three 60-inch monitors for video
– One 50-inch monitor for slides, etc.
• OARnet also installed Codian 12 port HD MCU
– $54k investment supports four locations of three screens each, or
any combination of 12.
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Introduction of TVRC
• Formed with start-up funds by Ohio Board of Regents
• Serves as global hub for online medical education and VC
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Doctors can share “grand rounds”
Demos of new and emerging clinical practices
Develop standards and coordinate resources
Conduct “virtual” clinical trials
• Modeled after Global Development Learning Network
(GDLN) of the World Bank
• Built upon extensive prior global VC efforts at OARnet
• UC’s Charles Doarn will serve as executive director
– 800-627-6420 (TVRC)
– 513-558-6148 (UC)
– charles.doarn@uc.edu
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TVRC Partners
Ohio Board of Regents
University System of Ohio
OARnet
Internet2
The World Bank
The Ohio State University
Ohio Supercomputer Center
University of Cincinnati
Medical Missions for Children
Health Sciences Online
Global Telemedicine and Teaching Network
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Shared Services – 3rd Approach
Collaboration and Trust relationship within
USO
Identity Management
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Identity Management
Chancellor’s charge -
• Review national and international standards for
identity creation, access management/control, and
governance.
• Develop recommendations for Ohio higher
educational institutions.
• Include local campus and system-wide scenarios
for both single and multiple-campus sharing of
identity data.
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Identity Management
• Investigate current initiatives and expertise across
Ohio
• Review leading commercial and open source
products currently available for technical maturity,
cost (purchase and installation), and necessary
features to achieve the USO Strategic Plan vision.
• If appropriate, conduct a statewide procurement
initiative to create deep discounted contracts for
product procurement, installation services, and
integration options.
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OARnet Member Surveys
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CIO/CFO Surveys
• IT Survey – January 2009
– Issues facing IT organizations in Higher Education
– Identify the requirements/needs of IT organization
– Develop a framework for shared services and aggregation
possibilities in conjunction with OBR
– Budget cuts implications
• Data Center Survey – February 2009
– Establish a baseline of data center operations in higher
education the across the state
– Determine the needs for additional data center resources
– Identify potential for collaboration to meet statewide
demands
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Results: 54 respondents to the survey from all technical leaders
for USO & OARnet members (25 USO Schools, 29 OARnet
member schools)
Top 4 services which could be shared services or
hosted:
1.Learning Management Systems
2.Video Conferencing
3.Email
4.Help Desk Software
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Results: 54 respondents to the survey from all technical leaders
for USO & OARnet members (25 USO Schools, 29 OARnet
member schools)
Schools planning for major consolidation or virtualization
in the next 3 years: 62 %
9-4yr
7-2yr USO colleges & universities
12 OARnet members
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Top 4 services & products which schools would take
advantage of in an aggregate shared product consortium:
1. Microsoft
2. VMware
3. Cisco
4. Banner
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Contact Information
Pankaj Shah
Executive Director of OARnet
pshah@oar.net
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