kanren: 2001 and beyond
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KanREN: 2001 and beyond. Doug Heacock Executive Director Kansas Research and Education Network. Overview. The KanREN consortium The backbone network KanREN today KanREN tomorrow Ongoing challenges The future of KanREN. The KanREN consortium. Established in 1993 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
KanREN: 2001 and beyond
Doug HeacockExecutive Director
Kansas Research and Education Network
Overview
• The KanREN consortium• The backbone network• KanREN today• KanREN tomorrow• Ongoing challenges• The future of KanREN
The KanREN consortium
• Established in 1993– Jerry Niebaum (KU) and RCAC
• Initial funding: NSF Connections grants
• Initial membership: 35 colleges and universities
• First sites connected in 1994
The KanREN consortium
• Founding principles:– Facilitate communication among
members– Provide a statewide infrastructure– Provide excellent technical support,
training– Create a true consortium community– Grassroots organization
The KanREN consortium
• Executive committee elected by member site representatives– Every member institution has a voice
and a vote
• "Service unit" of KU Center for Research, Inc.– Benefits of state agency without
some of the limitations
The backbone network
• Statewide infrastructure• Scalability• Robust and reliable• Standards-based• Managed
KanREN network, c. 1994
Manhattan Lawrence
Wichita
Kansas City
Internet
913 sites
316 sites
785 sites785 sites
Site links56k linkT1 link
KanREN network, c. 1996
Manhattan Lawrence
Wichita
Kansas City
Internet
913 sites
316 sites
785 sites785 sites
Site linksT1 link
KanREN network, c. 1999
Manhattan
Wichita
Kansas City
Internet
913 sites
316 sites
785 sites
Site linksT1 linkDS-3 linkOC-3 link
GPN/KanREN
785 sites
Lawrence
Internet 2Internet
KanREN network, May '01
Manhattan
Wichita
Kansas City
Internet
913 sites
316 sites
785 sites
Site linksT1 linkDS-3 linkOC-3 linkFrac. OC-3
GPN/KanREN
Lawrence
Internet 2Internet
Hays
Internet
KanREN today
• Membership growth: 61 sites– Six regents universities, plus KUMC– Ten community colleges– Eleven private colleges and
universities– Thirteen K-12 school districts– Eighteen public libraries– Three other non-profit organizations
KanREN today
• The staff:– Executive Director, full-time– Director of Network Services, half-
time– System Administrator, full-time– Director of Web Applications, half-
time
KanREN today
• Services:– Training and technical support– Campus network consulting– Internet access (78 Mbps total)– Intranet design and implementation– Network monitoring and diagnostics
• Online statistics, graphs
– 24-hour NOC
KanREN today
• Services (continued)– Abilene and Internet 2 access– Virtual Web hosting– Usenet News service– Primary and secondary DNS service– Delegated registration authority for four
.ks.us domains– Exclusive e-mail lists for site
representatives
KanREN today
• Services (continued)– Proxy Web caching service– Annual technical conference
• June 3-5, 2001, Central College, McPherson
– Occasional networking symposia• Video over IP• Security• Bandwidth management
KanREN tomorrow
• Staff growth– Add full-time network administrator– Add administrative
assistant/Webmaster
• Added services– Add aDSL connection options– Add IMA connection options– Possibly add Blackboard servers
KanREN tomorrow
• New services on the horizon– IP multicast for video over IP– Akamai servers at the core sites– Additional technical conferences and
symposia
KanREN tomorrow
• Kan-Ed– Legislation passed, awaiting
Governor's signature– State-wide, high-bandwidth, multi-
purpose backbone network– All K-12 districts, public libraries,
rural hospitals– To be administered by the Board of
Regents
Ongoing challenges
• Rapidly increasing demands for bandwidth– Aggregation ratios– Internet and backbone bandwidth
• Need for additional staff• Lack of provider infrastructure• Costs
The future of KanREN
• KanREN is finally being noticed at the state level
• KanREN will have significant involvement in Kan-Ed
• The consortium community is growing closer and stronger
• Our network is improving, even without state help
Questions, comments, etc.
• Doug Heacock• [email protected]• 785-864-0422 (office)• 785-691-5544 (cellular)• http://www.kanren.net