TechTalks Event
Broadband Access On Campus: How To Get It And How To Pay For It
with guest experts Jeff Kuhns of Penn State and Ron Hutchins of Georgia Tech
January 10, 2002
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Our experts were asked to identify and discuss the major issues in provisioning of broadband communications for higher education campuses. This session was an update of where we have been and what is happening now, and a look ahead to where we might be in the next 2–4 years. A portion of the interview will focused on issues specific to smaller schools and on how issues differ between rural and urban schools.
Guest Experts
Jeffrey
C. Kuhns is the Associate Sr. Director in Penn State's Office
of Telecommunications, a division of Computer and Information Systems.
The Office of Telecommunications is responsible for all voice, video
and data transport systems used throughout the 24 campus University
system. His specific responsibilities include budgeting, new business
development and strategic planning. He is completing his 22nd year
at Penn State and holds a B.S. in Business Administration and an
M.A. in Telecommunications.
Ron Hutchins is Director of Engineering, Operations and Engineering, Office of Information Technology, at Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science at Georgia Southern College. His current fields of interest and development are center on computer networking, but are divided into four primary facets: production network management; educational collaboration technologies; high-speed large-scale network design and management; and mobile and nomadic computing.
Co-Hosts
Howard Strauss (above, left), Manager of Academic Applications
at Princeton University, is TechTalk's Technology Anchor.
Judith Boettcher is the Executive Director of CREN.
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Background & Resources
Much of what is or is not happening with broadband is outside of higher education in the larger political and economic world.
A very good place to start preparing background is this article, The Broadband Revolution: You Say You Want a Definition at e-Marketer.
A recent Washington Post article says that "Broadband will come when content can roam more freely."
The Broadband Divide: A Widening Chasm in Higher Education? is a fairly recent EDUCAUSE Review article of direct pertinence. (PDF) A good place to find expertise on this topic is at the Net@EDU Broadband Pricing Working Group. Some of the resources listed in that working group's home page include:
- The Virginia Model: A Research and Education Driven Public Advanced Network Infrastructure (Word)
- Alternative Organizational Strategies for Future Cost-Efficient Access to National Networking (Word)
- High-performance Network Connections - Effective Practices
- Net@EDU Broadband Pricing Working Group Phase II Vision Paper (Word)
- Net@EDU Broadband Pricing Working Group White Paper: Defining the Value of the Higher Education Community to the Broadband Carriers, Draft Version 3.0 (Word)
