Network Nebraska Advisory
Group (NNAG) Meeting Notes
http://nitc.nebraska.gov/NNAG/meetings/
Sept 18, 2013 - 1-3PM
(Video Conference)
Video Conference (164.119.46.1##5300)
Agenda
Items:
1. John
Stritt and Debbie Schroeder called the meeting to order at 1:25pm after
technical difficulties, and then welcomed the NNAG members to the meeting. John
conducted the Roll Call and Introductions and asked if there were any Agenda
Additions or visitors present.
A)
12
members present
a. John Stritt, ESU 10 (ESU 10 site)
b. Bob Uhing, ESU 1 (WSC site)
c. Caroline Winchester, Chadron Public Schools (CPS site)
d. Scott Jones, ESU 16 (ESU 16 site)
e. Kirk Langer, Lincoln Public Schools (LPS site)
f. Debbie Schroeder, UNK (ESU 10 site)
g. Gene Beardslee, Peru State College (PSC
site)
h. John Dunning, Wayne State College (WSC site)
i. Chris Vaverek, Creighton University (CU
site)
j. Mike Carpenter, Doane College (Lincoln-Varner Hall site)
k. Lyle Neal, Southeast Community College (SCC-Milford site)
B) 4 Members Absent
a. Rob Hanger, District OR1-Palmyra/Bennet
b. Betty Getzfred, Pope John XXIII-Elgin
c. Mike Danahy, ESU 2
d. Tom Peters, Central Community College
C) 4 Liaisons Present
a. Rick Golden, UNCSN (Lincoln-Varner Hall site)
b. Brad Weakly, UNCSN (Lincoln-Nebraska Hall site)
c. Ben Mientka, UNCSN (Lincoln-Nebraska Hall site)
d. Greg Gray, UNCSN (Lincoln-Nebraska Hall site)
e. Tom Rolfes, OCIO/NITC (Lincoln-Varner Hall site)
2. May Meeting
Notes (http://nitc.nebraska.gov/NNAG/meetings/index.html)
A) John
Stritt reviewed the meeting notes from the 3/28/2013 NNAG meeting.
3.
NNAG
Committee Update (Deb Schroeder)
A) Debbie
Schroeder provided an update of the committee structure and memberships.
4.
Liaison Reports
impacting NNAG discussion
A) CAP Meeting Review - Rick Golden provided a summary of the recent
CAP meeting and also announced his retirement from UNCSN, effective 4/1/2013.
B)
Legislative updates - Tom Rolfes mentioned that the
Appropriations Committee was in the process of gathering information about LR199,
an Interim study to determine financial requirements, regarding the state’s
efforts to establish a statewide virtual/digital educational system. The
broader study of the lottery disbursements, LB 597, will be conducted in summer
2014.
5.
NNAG
Committees Reports—John and Debbie
reminded all of the subcommittee members to meet and draft goals related to
their task items listed below.
A) Committee topic of importance
during upcoming year & level of importance
B) Current status of topic as it
relates to NNAG involvement
C) Projected goal for the year
related to the topic
D) Suggest or ask for members to
assist in your committee work.
Committee
membership guidelines
a.
At
least one NNAG member from K12 and Post-secondary
b.
A
liaison member tied to the committee topic
c.
Other
interested member(s) from K-20 community.
6. NNAG Committee Reports
A) Governance (Co-Chairs Deb Schroeder and
John Stritt)
a.
Budget
(Deb Schroeder, Scott Jones, Tom Peters, Ron Cone, Tom Rolfes)
b.
Memorandum
of Agreement (John Stritt, Deb Schroeder)—Tom
Rolfes reported that over 90% of all the MoAs have
been submitted. The OCIO staff is contacting entities individually to turn in
the remaining forms.
c. NNAG Membership (John Stritt, Deb
Schroeder)—John and Debbie asked the NNAG
members to always be looking for qualified and interested individuals to
represent their sectors, should any vacancies occur.
d. Collaboration with outside groups
- e.g. PSC, legislature (SuAnn Witt)—No report
due to SuAnn’s absence.
e. NN Membership Guidelines (i.e.
Grand Island Public Library)-John asked for
an update on Grand Island Public Library and when their participation fee rate
would be resolved. Tom Rolfes reported that a meeting has been set up between
the OCIO and Steve Fosselman to discuss a possible cost-sharing model with the
NVCN system that shares space at the Grand Island Public Library.
B)
Emerging
Technologies (John
Dunning & Mike Danahy)
a. IPv6
b. Firewalls/Gatekeepers
c.
Identity
Management & InCommon Pilot Project - (Mike
Danahy, Jeff Wooters, Scott Isaacson, Wade Gibson)—Scott reported that there will be Shibboleth training in Omaha on Oct.
21-22 and that this was a great opportunity for Nebraska K-12 and higher education
to get up to speed on single sign-on and identity management.
d. Classroom Flipping, BYOD
e. Big Data Transport
C)
NN
Application Services
(Bob Uhing, Mike Carpenter, Kirk Langer)
a.
Internet2/Commercial
Peering Service (Mike Ruhrdanz)-Rick
Golden reported that the Internet2 CPS service out of the Great Plains Network
in Kansas City will amount to 40Gbps being shared among 5 states, or
approximately 8Gbps per state, providing they play “nicely” together. This
should allow Network Nebraska about 3-4Gbps of CPS routing, at $
.25/Mbps/month, or $750/month paid by Network Nebraska. Tom Rolfes calculated
that this would cost each K-12 and higher education Internet purchaser approximately
$.07/Mbps/month x “Mbps of Internet ordered” to recover the cost of this
service.
b.
Intrusion
Prevention Services (Brad Weakly, Ben Mientka)-Ben reported that the Intrusion Prevention appliances should be
installed by October 1 and will be tested soon afterward.
c. Traffic Shaping-Ben reported that the additional traffic
shaper for Lincoln has been purchased and will be delivered soon. Testing and shaping
policies will occur as soon as it’s ready for deployment.
d.
Business
Continuity/Disaster Recovery-Tom reported
that there is considerable interest from the community colleges in having
network security audits performed for their colleges. This should be one of the
items surveyed on the upcoming Network Nebraska Marketing Survey.
e.
Shared
Services-John Stritt commented that state
network websites such as MERIT-Michigan were rich in services such as e-mail, Zimbra, and Google apps.
f.
BlendEd
(Bob Uhing)-Bob gave an update on the BlendED initiative; Safari Montage servers are in place,
staff are populating the content sites, and training is scheduled for November
21 at ESU 3 in LaVista.
g. Legislative update - LMS/CMS -
Single Sign-on
h.
Caching
Server (Brad Weakly)-Brad reported that the
UNCSN staff are considering servers such as Akamai for the future to help take
care of the Apple update traffic, but finds that these are better situated at
the district level, rather than the regional network level.
D)
Marketing
(Chair: John
Stritt - SuAnn Witt)-John Stritt
encouraged the Marketing task group to work on the Network Nebraska Marketing
Survey and get it posted by early December 2013.
a.
NN
Web site (John Stritt, Tom Rolfes)-Tom
reported that the Network Nebraska website has been designed but is waiting for
developers to finish up other projects to get started on the new www.networknebraska.net navigation
pages.
b.
Survey
(Lyle Neal, Caroline Winchester)
c.
Participation
Profile (Mike Danahy, SuAnn Witt)-No
report.
7. Other committee Reports:
A) Community College (Tom Peters and
Lyle Neal)-No report.
B)
State
College (Gene Beardslee and John Dunning)-John reported that the three state colleges
have been researching and compiling a shared services catalog for each of the
state colleges to use.
C)
Private
College (Mike Carpenter)-Mike welcomed
Chris Vaverek from Creighton University to the NNAG.
D) ESUCC (Bob Uhing)-Bob’s comments were under the BlendED Initiative, Item 6Cf.
E) DEC (Scott Jones)-Scott reported that BlendED
is progressing, the 2013 Year End Report Newsletter from the ESUCC-DEAC has
been posted to ISSUU.com, and the ESUCC has assumed the contract for the Renovo
Software for 2013-14.
F) NOC (Mike Danahy)-No report.
8. Consider - What are other states
doing in support of statewide educational networks?
Utah – Utah Education Network (UEN) will
be scheduled to present at the November 20th NNAG Meeting.
Missouri – MOREnet may be scheduled for the January
15th meeting.
9. Next regular meeting - Wednesday,
November 20 - 1:00-3:00 PM CT
The meeting was adjourned at 2:36pm. Meeting notes
were recorded by Tom Rolfes and reviewed by John Stritt and Debbie Schroeder.