EDUCAUSE | Network Planning

Enterprise WAN Capacity Planning

elilly — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:44:32 -0500

Capacity planning or capacity management isn't just for networks anymore. In fact, while enterprise wide area networks (WANs) were once only optimized for transaction processing, it is now harder to find an enterprise WAN that hasn't been optimized in multiple ways to carry voice and video, Internet, and some mission-critical application that replaced a mainframe transaction system. With all of the new and interesting traffic types floating around in the WAN, it's a wonder anyone can keep things straight. Even Internet backbones, which should be application agnostic, are throttling certain applications to protect their own infrastructures. WAN capacity planning must evolve from an effort that network architects undertook alone into an effort that involves coordination among multiple infrastructure groups inside IT.

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Managing Cyberinfrastructure Strategically

drupal — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:39:00 -0600

EDUCAUSE recently convened a summit of university CIOs to obtain their insights on generating a set of national cyberinfrastructure priorities and to determine strategies and tactics for EDUCAUSE and its members. Learn about the projects EDUCAUSE initiated based on this meeting, and how your institution can become more involved in these efforts.

Architecture for 24 x 7 Application Delivery: Clustering, Failing Over, Logging, and Beyond

drupal — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:56:46 -0500

Designing and implementing a network, server, and application architecture for 24 x 7 Web application delivery is a must in today's demanding business environment. This presentation will cover the planning, complexities to address, and necessary steps to achieve reliable delivery of campus-wide financial, human resources, and student applications.

Podcast: Information Technology at the Georgia Aquarium: A Trendsetter’s Perspective

gbayne — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:43:52 -0500

In this 56 minute podcast, we feature the opening keynote address from the EDUCAUSE 2007 Southeast Regional Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. It is a speech by Beach Clark, Vice President of Information Technology at the Georgia Aquarium entitled "Information Technology at the Georgia Aquarium: A Trendsetter's Perspective".

This session will portray the challenges of implementing information technology projects at the Georgia Aquarium, the world's largest aquarium. It will focus on lessons learned, system features that bolster business, and suggested areas of improvement both internally and with technology.

An Operational Framework for Federated Network Management

drupal — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:37:32 -0500

Recently the LMU computer science network environment was converted from a centralized infrastructure to a federated system, which not only increased user satisfaction and system security but also let the network managers enjoy many restful nights. We will present our formalized framework that eases management, distributes authority, and maintains accountability and protection.

Networking Research: Trends and Issues

drupal — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:47:18 -0600

Networking research can be broadly categorized into two directions: understanding and improving current networks, and imagining future networks and related protocol/technology research and development. Significant research continually improves current features of the Internet, a prime example of a "future network" when it was envisioned over 30 years ago. External forces can also play a critical role in networking research (for example, the deployment of services that become popular overnight because current networks can support them). This phenomenon raises additional issues that can feed into either of the two broad directions. In this talk, I'll discuss a few historical examples and summarize the current trends and obstacles in networking research, addressing the need for both short- and long-term networking research directions.

Virtual Computing: A New Strategy for a New Era

drupal — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:25:23 -0500

Students and faculty at all educational levels want anywhere, anytime access to a leading-edge, resource-rich computing, learning, and research environment—and CIOs and IT professionals want this visionary environment to be affordable, scalable, usable, and supportable. Responding to these competing needs and constraints, North Carolina State University has developed and implemented a next-generation computing strategy and architecture for the universal delivery of computing services. This environment is now in campus-wide production status. The architecture is highly uniform, extensible, scalable, malleable, sustainable, and supportable. Collectively, these characteristics combine to produce an innovative advancement with the potential to radically transform the access, functionality, and economic benchmarks for the current university computing paradigm.

Tune In September 14: Virtual Computing: A New Strategy for a New Era

cluckett — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:16:05 -0500

Tune in Sept. 14 to hear from Samuel Averitt and Mladin A. Vouk about North Carolina State University's next-generation computing strategy and architecture for the universal delivery of computing services. Unable to tune in? Visit the archives.

Community Networking Around the World

drupal — Thu, 04 May 2006 16:14:34 -0500

Community networks are a growing national trend, and federal agencies, intergovernmental organizations, and private sector organizations are launching broadband initiatives seeking to ensure that citizens in developing nations have access to the information and services needed to compete in today's global economy. Network experts from government and private sectors will share their experiences and what lessons U.S. colleges and universities can learn from these programs.

E2005 Podcast: Virtual Possibilities Network

podcaster — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:56:06 -0500

This 52 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled Virtual Possibilities Network: A Public-Private Mixing Bowl.