Network Nebraska Meeting Notes

http://nitc.nebraska.gov/NNAG/meetings/

January 15 - 9-11 AM CT (Video Conference)

Video Conference (164.119.46.1##5300)

Agenda Items:

1. Welcome - Roll Call and Introductions and Agenda Additions (visitors)

K-12 Members	Urban Reps	Rural Reps
Educational Service Units	John Stritt - ESU 10 – Co-Chair, Governance	Bob Uhing - ESU 1 - NN Application Services, ESUCC Rep.
Administrators	Rob Hanger, Palmyra/Bennett	Caroline Winchester, Chadron - Marketing
Administrators	Scott Jones, ESU 16 DL - DEC Reporter, Governance	Betty Getzfred/Julie Dwyer, Pope John
Network Operations Committee	Kirk Langer - Lincoln PS - NN Application Services	Mike Danahy, ESU 2 - Emerging Technologies - NOC Reporter
Postsecondary Members	Urban Reps	Rural Reps
Public Universities	Mike Ruhrdanz, UNL - NN Application services (I2)	Debbie Schroeder, UNK – Co-Chair - Governance
State Colleges	Gene Beardslee, Peru State - State College Reporter	John Dunning, Wayne State, -Emerging Technologies
Independent Universities	Mike Carpenter, Doane - Private College Reporter - NN Application Services	Chris Vaverek, Creighton - Private College Reporter - Governance
Community Colleges	Lyle Neal, SECC - Community College Reporter, Marketing	Tom Peters, CCC - Governance
CAP Liaisons
Brenda Decker, CIO - NNAG Advisor	Michael Winkle, UNL	Leona Roach
Walter Weir, UNL- NN Profile	Rick Golden, UNL - Budget, CAP	Brad Weakly
Ben Mientka	Tom Rolfes, NITC - Recorder, Web Design, Ed Council Reporter.	SuAnn Witt, NDE - Marketing

A) John Stritt and Debbie Schroeder called the meeting to order at 9:00pm CT, 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.

B) 8 members present

a. John Stritt, ESU 10 (ESU 10 site)

b. Caroline Winchester, Chadron Public Schools

c. Scott Jones, ESU 16 (ESU 16 site)

d. Mike Danahy, ESU 2 (ESU 3 site)

e. Bob Uhing, ESU 1(ESU 1 Site)

f. Debbie Schroeder, UNK (ESU 10 site)

g. Nick Muir (alt for John Dunning), Wayne State College (WSC site)

h. Tom Peters, Central Community College (ESU 10 site)

C) 8 Members Absent

a. Rob Hanger, District OR1-Palmyra/Bennet

b. Betty Getzfred, Pope John XXIII-Elgin

c. Kirk Langer, Lincoln Public Schools

d. Gene Beardslee, Peru State College

e. Michael Ruhrdanz, UNL

i. Chris Vaverek, Creighton University

j. Mike Carpenter, Doane College

k. Lyle Neal, Southeast Community College

D) 4 Liaisons Present

a. Rick Golden, UNCSN (Lincoln-Varner Hall site)

d. Tom Rolfes, OCIO/NITC (Lincoln-Varner Hall site)

e. Brad Weakly, UNCSN (Audio Only from ESU 17)

f. Ben Mientka, UNCSN (Audio Only from ESU 17)

E) 1 Guest Present

a. Scott Isaacson (ESU 3 site)

2. January Meeting Notes (http://nitc.nebraska.gov/NNAG/meetings/index.html)

A) John Stritt reviewed the meeting notes from the 1/15/2014 NNAG meeting.

3. Liaison Reports impacting NNAG discussion

A) Tom, Brad and Ben provided an overview of the last CAP meeting and Network Nebraska developments: A) Intrusion Protection is in production; B) Commercial Peering Service is in production at about 50%-67% capacity; C) The University tested the dark fiber from Lincoln to UNK and it is capable of carrying traffic; D) Total combined Internet for K-12 will be reaching 14Gbps, and over 16Gbps with higher education included.

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4. Connect with MOREnet at about 10 am - http://www.more.net/ - Natasha Angel

A) See Report Below

5. Committee Reports

A) Governance (Co-Chairs Deb Schroeder and John Stritt)

• NN Membership Guidelines/Participation Profile – A subcommittee of the NNAG met to discuss membership guidelines and a new Affiliate Membership status.

• Memorandum of Agreement – Debbie reported that there were no new amendments to the MoA for 2014 and Tom reported that the OCIO has collected all but two MoAs.

• Budget – Debbie reported that the Budget committee will begin their analysis after the E-rate filing deadline.

• Collaboration with outside groups – SuAnn was not present to give her report but the NNAG has been collaborating with the NITC Education Council and also ESUCC on application development.

• Ed Council Action Items—Tom Rolfes, nothing new to report.

B) Emerging Technologies (John Dunning & Mike Danahy)

a. Identity Management & InCommon Pilot Project – Mike Danahy and Scott Isaacson reported that they would be traveling to La Jolla California for the Quilt Conference and will be presenting on the Nebraska InCommon pilot project. They will also be traveling to the CoSN conference March 19-21, and the Internet2 Summit in Denver, in early April.

b. Caching Server – Brad Weakly reported that the emergence of the Commercial Peering Service may eliminate the need for an enterprise caching service but suggested that school districts investigate local caching in order to handle the frequent software updates, especially from Apple.

c. Firewalls/Gatekeepers (Mike Danahy)

d. IPv6 – No report

e. Classroom Flipping, BYOD—No report

f. Big Data Transport—Dark fiber project to UNK has been installed and is functional.

C) NN Application Services - (Bob Uhing, Mike Carpenter, Kirk Langer)

a. BlendED—Bob Uhing reported that the ESUCC is really looking at a statewide LMS, with possible K-20 collaboration. The ESUCC is moving ahead with their Safari Montage implementation as well as Zoom as a desktop/laptop videoconferencing option.

b. Intrusion Prevention Services – Brad Weakly reported that UNCSN installed an aggregation switch between the Juniper router and the firewall gear to permit aggregation of ports, thus increasing the capacity of the device. Mike Danahy added that the local Fortinet gear has been great for schools.

c. Internet2/Commodity Peering – Brad Weakly reported that the CPS service is not running near capacity. One possibility is that the Hurricane Electric peer points through Unite Private Networks may be performing as well as Internet2. Ben and Brad will continue to monitor through the end of this year, but 3Gbps seems to be handling all of the CPS traffic.

d. Traffic Shaping—No report

e. Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery—No report

f. Shared Services—No report

D) Marketing - (Chair: John Stritt - SuAnn Witt)

a. NN Web site - http://www.nitc.nebraska.gov/nnag/ --Tom Rolfes reported that web redesign progress is happening but slowly.

b. NN Marketing Survey – No survey was administered in December. Tom Rolfes offered that there is shared services data and suggestions in the 2012 report. Tom will send out to the Marketing subcommittee.

7. Other Committee Reports:

• Community College (Tom Peters, Lyle Neal)—No report

• State College (Gene Beardslee, Nick Muir)—No report

• Private College (Mike Carpenter, Chris Vaverek)—No report

• ESUCC (Bob Uhing)—Bob Uhing reported that the ESUCC Technology Committee has been discussing statewide e-mail as a Network Nebraska service and the implications for Network Nebraska if Distance Learning incentives are discontinued beyond 2016.

• DEC (Scott Jones)—Scott Jones reported that the Distance Education Advisory Committee of the ESUs is continuing to meet and discuss discontinuation of Renovo Scheduling, and their BlendED development for 2014-15 and beyond.

• NOC (Mike Danahy)—Mike Danahy reported that ESU-NOC’s three big issues are: Traffic management strategies, What is NN’s role in BlendED?, and Identity Management implementation.

8. Next regular meeting - Wednesday, March 19 - 1-3 PM CT

Meeting notes recorded by Tom Rolfes, and reviewed by John Stritt and Debbie Schroeder

4. MOREnet Report

A) Natasha Angel, Director Member Services

B) 12 years at MOREnet

C) Background in network consulting, security, sales & marketing, network engineering

D) MOREnet is known for its eMINTS program that brought a lot of technology to elementary school classrooms

E) 1991 was the inception of MOREnet, with the mission to connect K-12 schools

F) Currently about 750 members, 500 are K-12; 480/520 public school districts are involved; 20/600 private and parochial schools are involved

G) 65 higher ed members; 26 public higher ed (100%), 39 private higher ed

H) 134 libraries, MOREnet receives $3 million from Missouri Library Commission to connect the libraries

I) Some cities and counties are connected to MOREnet

J) State of Missouri purchases its Internet from MOREnet

K) 900 WAN connections, 1,000 miles of fiber, 20 year IRUs for dark fiber, 40% growth in bandwidth per year, 10Gbps-100Gbps backbone

L) MOREnet Services

a. There are no ESUs in Missouri to compete with MOREnet for technology services

b. Provides Training on technology, especially smart boards and 3 FTE for Google Apps, Windows Server installation and maintenance

c. Network Consulting on firewalls, security, DNS, port blocking

d. Videoconferencing on Polycom RMX bridges, 25K videoconferences per year, High school & dual credit, opt-in teleconferencing services like Vidyo and telepresence for higher ed

M) MOREnet Pricing

a. IVC fees based on enrollment, ranges from $400 to $13,000 per year

b. Fees based on Connectivity; mostly T-1s, WANs are the responsibility of the local entities; MOREnet connectivity fees range from $1,358/year up to $39,000/year

N) MOREnet services are member funded; E-mail hosting, archiving, SAN, filtering, data storage, Vidyo software, Microsoft EES, CDWG pricing for higher ed only

O) MOREnet went through a financial crisis in 2011 when they lost $13 million from the State of Missouri. Lost 7% membership immediately, but since has grown by 158%

P) MOREnet files for E-rate as a consortium, 80% discount

Q) Services are tiered pricing based on usage or consumption; Backup data is billed monthly, all other services are paid annually up front, Managed router ANS is $1300/year/circuit; E-mail, web hosting, and content management system

R) Identity Management? Contact Chip Beyers, Director of Strategic Partnerships

S) Backbone? 20-year IRU for 100Gbps backbone from Kansas City to St. Louis; other backbone segments are 10Gbps leased