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The GPN Regional Resource Initiative

Learn about the background, initiatives, people, and financing of The Great Plains Network's regional resources. Explore challenges and future prospects for universities participating in various tech initiatives.

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The GPN Regional Resource Initiative

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  1. The GPN Regional Resource Initiative Rick Summerhill Executive Director The Great Plains Network Spring 2002 Internet2 Member Meeting Arlington, VA May 7, 2002

  2. Outline • Problem • History • Initiative • People • Financing • Future

  3. Problem • Difficult to deploy new network features without some hands on experience • Multicast • IPv6 • Difficult to keep up with all the initiatives. Can universities participate in all the initiatives? • Web100 project • End-to-end performance initiative • All the working groups • Etc.

  4. History • Originally focused on connectivity • Participants: ND, SD, NE, KS, OK, AR, MO • Over the past 5 years, changes in the economic picture have driven changes in connectivity • Oklahoma connected directly • North Dakota, South Dakota connected to Minneapolis • Arkansas will connect to OK • Much more concentrated on support issues • Informal support role • More structured approach in case of multicast – Gordon Rogier helped many in our network to develop multicast skills and knowledge • How did it work?

  5. History • Multicast tutorials • Afternoon/Morning sessions • Theory/Engineering approach • Lots of hands on activity • Step by step approach • Lead to the model for the Regional Resource Initiative

  6. Initiative • Areas of concentration. Currently these are • Multicast • IPv6 • H.323 • Optical Networking • Measurement/E2E/Web100 • Wireless • AGN • GPN supports individuals to go to meetings, participate in particular projects, or with actual hardware • Individuals then give tutorials and presentations across the network

  7. Initiative • Hands on approach – roughly half of tutorial is about ideas, half related to configuration, setup, and implementation. • Example: IPv6 • Similar to I2 tutorials, although shorter in duration • Attended by non-I2 participants in GPN • Tutorial at MOREnet last March, 2002 • Tutorial at NDSU in June, 2002

  8. People • People involved • Multicast – Gordon Rogier, Rick Summerhill • IPv6 – Dale Finkelson, Rick Summerhill • H.323 – Tom Brenneman, UMKC • Optical Networking – David Olson, MOREnet • Measurement/E2E/Web100 – Mike Rechtenbaugh, Rick Summerhill • Wireless – Zane Gray, OU • AGN – Marty Hoag, NDSU

  9. Financing • GPN funds the speakers – travel, equipment, etc. • Location funds the speakers when they present a tutorial – travel to site

  10. Future • A reasonable way to maximize the expertise within a region • Try to organize other areas on interest – for example: • Middleware • Potentially non-network activities

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