1. Campus Issues Martin Price, EUNIS Jean-Paul le Guigner, CRU, France Amsterdam 8 May 2007 The EARNEST Foresight Study 2006 - 2007

2. Issues For Investigation • Campus Bottlenecks • Providing Network Services • Rollout of IPv6 • Training Network Staff • Collaboration at Campus and National level The EARNEST Foresight Study 2006 - 2007

3. CAMPUS Panel • Rogelio Montanana, Valencia University, Spain • Michael Nowlan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland • Ligia Ribeiro, Porto University, Portugal • Martin Sutter, SWITCH, Switzerland Plus • Jim Buddin, TERENA • Jean-Paul le Guigner, CRU, Rennes, France • Martin Price, EUNIS, UK The EARNEST Foresight Study 2006 - 2007

4. Online Survey • Targeted at Heads of campus IT services • Took place in early March 2007 • Circulated via: • EUNIS mail lists • NREN contacts of connected organisations • National organisations • TERENA lists The EARNEST Foresight Study 2006 - 2007

5. Areas of Survey • Campus Infrastructures • Network Services • Governance/Funding • Networking Expertise • Collaboration The EARNEST Foresight Study 2006 - 2007

6. Survey Findings - 1 • Diversity of community • Wide-ranging connection rates • Few campus bottlenecks • Some over-restrictive security • Videoconferencing widely available The EARNEST Foresight Study 2006 - 2007

7. Survey Findings - 2 • Networking policy • Non-existent in some institutions • Little formal input from user community • Networking staff • Wide spectrum of staffing levels • Recruitment/retention difficulties • Retraining problems (funding, career development plans) • Not much collaboration between institutions The EARNEST Foresight Study 2006 - 2007

8. Observations / Questions - 1 • Coherent institutional networking policies • Includes appropriate funding • Levels of security • Difficult to find right balance • Promote awareness of services available • At all levels including end-users, technicians, policy makers The EARNEST Foresight Study 2006 - 2007

9. Observations / Questions - 2 • Network support staff • Increase numbers • Improve level of expertise • Limiting factor may be people not hardware • Collaboration • Within institutions • Between institutions • With ‘intermediate’ networks, NRENs, etc The EARNEST Foresight Study 2006 - 2007