UMATS Retreat

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Welcome UMATS Retreat June 21, 2007
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Agenda

• 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

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Breakout 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)

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State of UMATS UMATS Retreat June 21, 2007
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Accomplishments 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

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Accomplishments FY07 (cont)

• Prince Georges Community College connected 4/07
• UMUC upgraded to Gigabit Ethernet 5/07
• Conversion from CDigix to Ruckus 6/07

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Current UMATS MapBackbone
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Current UMATS MapUniversity of Maryland,
Baltimore Hub
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Current UMATS MapUniversity of Maryland, College
Park Hub
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Current UMATS MapUMBC and 6 St. Paul
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Current UMATS MapSalisbury University Hub
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Current UMATS MapFrostburg State University and
Hagerstown Center
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Upcoming 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

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Upcoming 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

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Upcoming 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

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Upcoming 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

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BERnetBaltimore 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

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BERnetBaltimore 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

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Community 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

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Community 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

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State of UMATS

• Questions?

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