NSF Grant Presentation NSF Grant Presentation Advanced NetworkingAdvanced Networking

Satellite Extension Satellite Extension ProgramProgram

Janet Poley, President, ADECJanet Poley, President, ADEC

It’s About Place & MoneyIt’s About Place & Money

Rural - RemoteRural - Remote Distance and Distance EducationDistance and Distance Education Concentration of PovertyConcentration of Poverty Lives Can’t Be Improved by Lives Can’t Be Improved by

Bandwidth AloneBandwidth Alone It’s Useless of You Can’t Get and/or It’s Useless of You Can’t Get and/or

You Can’t Use ItYou Can’t Use It

The Digital DivideThe Digital Divide

Falling through Falling through the Netthe Net

Have Nots are Have Nots are Growing Over Growing Over TimeTime

Heterick Comments on DDHeterick Comments on DD

““We should worry about the We should worry about the unhappily slow roll-out and high unhappily slow roll-out and high cost of high speed digital cost of high speed digital connectivity. To produce really connectivity. To produce really compelling learning applications, compelling learning applications, we will most often require megabit we will most often require megabit access. “access. “

The Real Digital DivideThe Real Digital Divide

““At the current roll-out rate of our At the current roll-out rate of our phone companies’ digital subscriber phone companies’ digital subscriber line technology and the cable line technology and the cable companies symmetrical broadband companies symmetrical broadband services, we will be severely limited services, we will be severely limited in what we can design in the way of in what we can design in the way of new learning environments for quite new learning environments for quite some time to come.”some time to come.”

ADEC VisionADEC VisionNo More Back RoadsNo More Back Roads

Reach into communities less than Reach into communities less than 25,00025,000

HBCUs, Tribal Colleges, Hispanic HBCUs, Tribal Colleges, Hispanic ServingServing

Developing CountriesDeveloping Countries

Who Do Most of Who Do Most of Underserved Schemes Underserved Schemes

Really Serve?Really Serve?

Not the “distant”Not the “distant” Not the place boundNot the place bound Not the less educatedNot the less educated Not the educatorsNot the educators Not the national interestNot the national interest Not universal in serviceNot universal in service

Pretty Good InternetPretty Good Internet

DSLDSL Satellite WirelessSatellite Wireless LMDSLMDS Radio wirelessRadio wireless ProtocolsProtocols

Improving Access and Improving Access and ApplicationsApplications

Bandwidth offers “realism” with Bandwidth offers “realism” with instructional potential for more instructional potential for more concrete and complex symbols and concrete and complex symbols and visualsvisuals

Bandwidth offers “voice” and affectBandwidth offers “voice” and affect Two-way offers active engagement and Two-way offers active engagement and

adaptation to learnersadaptation to learners Synchronous offers immediacy and Synchronous offers immediacy and

responsivenessresponsiveness

The Center & PeripheryThe Center & Periphery

GeographyGeography EconomicsEconomics CultureCulture DemographicsDemographics TechnologyTechnology CommunityCommunity

PartnersPartners

National Science FoundationNational Science Foundation ADEC Members (Nebraska, Washington ADEC Members (Nebraska, Washington

State, North Carolina State, California, State, North Carolina State, California, Maryland, Illinois)Maryland, Illinois)

San Diego NAP/CAIDASan Diego NAP/CAIDA Internet 2Internet 2

– Abilene, vBNS+Abilene, vBNS+ EducauseEducause TachyonTachyon

Project GoalsProject Goals

Explore and evaluate hybred Explore and evaluate hybred networks, including satellite networks, including satellite technology and wireless solutions for technology and wireless solutions for underserved audiences; andunderserved audiences; and

Explore and evaluate the Explore and evaluate the deployment of research and deployment of research and education applications in a variety of education applications in a variety of institutional and community settingsinstitutional and community settings

Research objectives Research objectives include:include:

Studying the technology: requirements Studying the technology: requirements for satellite based IP network, QOS for for satellite based IP network, QOS for last mile, network performance last mile, network performance measurements, protocols etc.measurements, protocols etc.

Defining the agenda for Defining the agenda for teaching/learning applicationsteaching/learning applications

Appropriate Business Appropriate Business Models-cost/benefitModels-cost/benefit

ADEC NetworkADEC Network

Equipment configurationEquipment configuration

TAPsTAPs*KU Band, VSAT, <1 meter dish, *KU Band, VSAT, <1 meter dish,

ethernet ethernet Tachyon GatewayTachyon Gateway

*San Diego NAP/DS3 connection*San Diego NAP/DS3 connection Communication ServerCommunication Server

*Data collection services, *Data collection services, Chariot Chariot sofware, web boardsofware, web board

Differentiated ServiceDifferentiated Service

Core InstitutionsCore Institutions

North Carolina StateNorth Carolina State North Carolina A&TNorth Carolina A&T University of IllinoisUniversity of Illinois University of NebraskaUniversity of Nebraska University of CaliforniaUniversity of California Washington State UniversityWashington State University

Project TeamProject Team

Kevin Gamble - Project DirectorKevin Gamble - Project Director Randy Ross - Tribal CoordinatorRandy Ross - Tribal Coordinator Dan Godfrey - HBCU CoordinatorDan Godfrey - HBCU Coordinator Engineering Team Leader - Dale Engineering Team Leader - Dale

Finkelson, UNLFinkelson, UNL Applications Coordinator - Dan Applications Coordinator - Dan

CottonCotton

Educational EffectivenessEducational Effectiveness

Blue Ribbon TeamBlue Ribbon Team Criteria for Site SelectionCriteria for Site Selection Attribute Analysis - DillionAttribute Analysis - Dillion Communication Research - GibsonCommunication Research - Gibson Sociological Research - RhodesSociological Research - Rhodes Community Analysis - FloraCommunity Analysis - Flora

Cooperation with EPSCoRCooperation with EPSCoR

Add on Projects for EPSCoR StatesAdd on Projects for EPSCoR States International - MexicoInternational - Mexico Development of Projects with Development of Projects with

Other Funding SourcesOther Funding Sources

eArmyUeArmyU

PriceWaterhouse CoopersPriceWaterhouse Coopers 29 Initial Institutions29 Initial Institutions SOC and SOCADSOC and SOCAD Council for Academic Management Council for Academic Management

(CAM)(CAM) Tribal Colleges - HBCUs - Hispanic Tribal Colleges - HBCUs - Hispanic

Serving InstitutionsServing Institutions