Transcript LSP conference

Campus View of I2
Tim Sigmon
Director, Advanced Technology
University of Virginia
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~tms/LITA
I2 Components
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Connectivity and bandwidth delivery
– wallplate and building
– campus backbone
– gigaPOP
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Applications
– infrastructure R & D
– research
– instruction
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at least $500,000 per year (+ $25,000 dues)
Connectivity at UVa
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5 year rewiring project began in 1992
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first 2 years put fiber to all buildings
next 3 years rewired all buildings
Cat 5 twisted pair plus coax for cable video
wallplates provide voice, data, and video
backbone recently upgraded to OC-12 ATM (622
Mbps)
 building-level networks moving from shared 10
Mbps to switched 10/100 Mbps
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The RIC GigaPOP
Distributed gigaPOP based on Network Virginia
 Network Virginia (NWV) is a statewide ATM
network
 UVa, VT, and ODU each received NSF
Connections grants for the initial vBNS
connection
 Operational since August, 1997
 http://www.networkvirginia.net
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The Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX)
MetaPOP that will serve as an aggregation and
exchange point for advanced network services
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RIC
WREN
Maryland GigaPOP
SURA
Bell Atlantic
GTE
Will connect to Project Abilene
 http://www.networkvirginia.net/MAX
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Legion: Worldwide Virtual Computer
Multimillion dollar R&D project in the Computer
Science department
 Provide the illusion of a single virtual computer
 Encompass computers ranging from workstations
to supercomputers located anywhere in the world
 A key enabling technology: high bandwidth
networks with advanced services
 Technology partner in NPACI (led by SDSC)
 http://legion.virginia.edu
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Institute for Advanced Technology in the
Humanities
Supports research in the Arts and Humanities
using state-of-the-art technology
 Fellows are given extensive technology support;
both equipment and technical professionals
 Has supported several dozen fellows (at various
levels) over the past 5 years
 Projects tend to have extensive multimedia
requirements
 Advanced software applications developed
 http://www.iath.virginia.edu
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Instructional Applications
TTI - the Teaching and Technology Initiative
 Supports up to 12 Fellows per year
 Provides resources for educational innovation
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time
technical support
access to new teaching technologies
software to create multimedia instructional tools
hardware for development and presentation of
materials
http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/tti