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Utah Education Network

Utah Education Network. Current Status February 2005. What is UEN. Consortium of Education and Government entities Higher Education (10 State run institution with hundreds of locations in Utah Public Educations (40 Districts supporting 400,000+ Students and over 800 schools)

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Utah Education Network

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  1. Utah Education Network Current Status February 2005

  2. What is UEN Consortium of Education and Government entities • Higher Education (10 State run institution with hundreds of locations in Utah • Public Educations (40 Districts supporting 400,000+ Students and over 800 schools) • Public Libraries • State Government

  3. UEN Services • Network development and support • Content development • ASP and Web Services • Pioneer Library • WebCT • Filtering • DNS • Other Services

  4. UEN Networks • KUEN • Data WAN and Internet • EdNet Distance Education • Utah Education Network Satellite System

  5. KUEN • Sister Station to KUED Channel 7 • Supports Higher Education delivered classes • Digital conversion completed in 2002 • Translators deliver signal throughout the state of Utah • UEN exploring the use of the expanded digital signal to deliver some data traffic

  6. Data WAN and Internet Network • Currently in the middle of a statewide upgrade to Ethernet Circuits • Current Internet Capacity is 900 Mbps • Upgrading I2 connection from OC-3 to OC-12 • Participant in National Lambda Rail as a Front Range GigaPop (FRGP) member • Participant with CENIC, FRGP, the State of Nevada and Northwest GigaPoP in the Western Lights consortium

  7. EdNet Distance Education Network • Operational for the past 25 years • Developed to enable many-to-many connectivity • Delivers thousands of educational sessions each year to tens of thousands of students • Currently going through a massive upgrade from analog to digital endpoints and backbone

  8. UENSS Network • Collaborative effort between Utah State University and UEN • 200+ classrooms in Utah equipped to receive satellite delivered courses • IP Telephony used for the past 6 years to deliver return audio for one-way video satellite transmission

  9. UEN Ethernet Upgrade • First Backbone Ethernet links turned up in Q1 2002 • First “Last Mile” access circuits turned up on Q3 2002 • Conversion of Backbone to Optical Lambda services in November 2003 • Ethernet Lambda installation in backbone - August 2004

  10. Ethernet Upgrade Current Status • Projects completed with 6 vendors and 4 community networks • 75% of all District Offices connected • 80% of Higher Education main campus locations connected • 45% of all school locations connected • RFP evaluation completed in January 2005 to connect the remaining schools over the next 2-3 years

  11. Other Factors • E-Rate • Legislative Funding • Microwave Projects in remote areas • Resource limitations • Network Security initiative

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