Category Archives: WiscNet

A small school’s BIG cost

Small schools (K12 and Colleges with less than 1,000 students) are accustomed like all of us to accessing email around the clock.  We know email is habit forming at best and compulsive at worst.  The new economy proves funding 24/7 in-house email services can be staggering as budgets are slashed.  Many schools have embraced [...]

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Large Hadron Collider’s big network

15 petabytes of data a year will be generated by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) a particle physics project running at CERN and that requires a very robust network.  Data generated by LHC is being distributed to over 7,000 scientists worldwide and travels across the US Midwest via BoreasNet. In this video CERN technologists discuss the [...]

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Internet2 Spring Meeting netcast

Today begins Internet2’s Spring Member meeting.  The hot topic of conversation? Broadband stimulus funding.

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Brainstorm 10.0

Attended Brainstorm 10.0 today and had a chance to hear PC industry pundit John C. Dvorak.  Brainstorm had a great number of technology sessions for K12 Technology Directors. The most surprising session was “HD video over IP for Distance Learning” because the original presenter did not show up….so I decided to try an Unconference session that [...]

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YouTube, K12 web filtering & CIPA

I recently posted a tweet about my work with K12 school districts regarding web content filtering issues with YouTube and was very happy to receive a couple of DMs from Angela Maiers and Elizabeth Holmes, two education professionals who I consider to be leaders in knowledge sharing and teaching experiences they share on Twitter. –Follow Angela [...]

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BoreasNet now 200GBs

The Boreas Network in the Midwest connecting Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been upgraded to a 200GB network capacity. This Regional Optical Network (RON) will be advancing the research opportunities in the upper midwest by enhancing the established optical network with new links installed [...]

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The internet is dead. Long live the internet!

The 2008 Fall Internet2 member meeting last week in New Orleans proved that Big Science is here and I’m not sure the world is prepared to handle LHC’s generated data.  The session included an HD video conference to the Large Hadron Collider. Session Overview: October 15, 2008, 8:45 AM – 10:00 AM | UTC/GMT -5 hours (CDT) The [...]

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Internet2 fall member meeting

The Fall member meeting of Internet2 is underway this week in New Orleans. Tulane President Scott Cowen is giving the keynote address. Catch the conference netcasts here. HD video is supported as well. Tags: Internet2, bandwidth, network, fiber, globalization, trends

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MKE Angelbeat Conference

Today WiscNet is offsite at the 10th annual Angelbeat conference at the Milwaukee Hilton City Center.  The team is coming in from Madison and I was able to sleep in this morning until 5:30am and hang with Max for a bit before driving downtown. The agenda looks pretty good, should learn much today:

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Bandwidth for Schools

A National Broadband Policy needs to be more than just a talking point. Schools in our country need to upgrade their internet bandwidth to 25 Megabytes per second. This is for every school — not just the K12 district who slices up the bandwidth based upon the total number of school buildings in [...]

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