New Mexico Statewide Broadband Gil Gonzales, Ph.D., CIO Moira Gerety, Deputy CIO University of New Mexico June 9, 2015
Collaboration is at the heart of the Academy Regionally, Nationally, Globally The more advanced, the farther & fewer are collaborators Networks are essential to the new conduct of science: data & compute-intensive science Dispersed sources of data, storage, analysis, modeling In every discipline: Physics, Chem, Math, Sociology, Medicine, Climate, Music Networks are essential to instruction delivery & learning Online content delivery, testing & learning, research, MOOCs Performance is critical and growth is exponential Data movement : packet size and speed Analysis must scale with the data Security cannot be sacrificed for performance The Motivation
University of New Mexico New Mexico’s flagship higher education institution Hispanic-serving 27,000 students on main campus 8,000 students on 4 branch campuses “Research Extensive” by Carnegie Classification Medical School, Teaching Hospital (21,000 employees), Cancer Center, Nursing, Pharmacy, Law, Business, Engineering Schools
The UNM IT Department Enterprise IT service provider for UNM Banner ERP, Computer classrooms & labs Partners with HPC, Research, Learning Mgt GigaPoP, Western Regional Network (WRN) 150 IT Staff, 80+ Student Employees ITIL certification of over 50% of technical staff PMI certification of project managers Baldrige Quality Performance Excellence recognition in NM 2011 & 2013
NSF: “Continuous collaborative computational cloud” Best Practices Process to bridge to national infrastructure Interoperable identification and authentication Dissemination and use of shared data collections
New Mexico
Increased Mobile Responsiveness Source: Published February, update.htm
BB Subscriptions Total Subscriptions
Subscriptions/100 People Source:
New Mexico Broadband
2012: 5 th 372kbs
New Mexico Providers
Local Telco Fiber Map
Higher Education Plan
Higher Education Today
National Context
Regional Network
Consortium of Regional Optical Networks (RONs) Locations with HUBS at each RON: Albuquerque Gigapop (ABQG): New Mexico Front Range Gigapop (FRG): Colorado, Wyoming Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWGP): Washington, Montana, Alaska Corporation for Educational Network Initiatives in California (CENIC): California, Nevada, Arizona University of Hawaii System (UH) Shared network services Cost Effective Exchanges
State & Tribal Collaborations
Questions Gil Gonzales (505) Moira Gerety (505)