NSF Grant Presentation Advanced Networking Satellite Extension Program Janet Poley, President, ADEC

It’s About Place & Money n Rural - Remote n Distance and Distance Education n Concentration of Poverty n Lives Can’t Be Improved by Bandwidth Alone n It’s Useless of You Can’t Get and/or You Can’t Use It

The Digital Divide n Falling through the Net n Have Nots are Growing Over Time

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

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

ADEC Vision No More Back Roads n Reach into communities less than 25,000 n HBCUs, Tribal Colleges, Hispanic Serving n Developing Countries

Who Do Most of Underserved Schemes Really Serve? n Not the “distant” n Not the place bound n Not the less educated n Not the educators n Not the national interest n Not universal in service

Pretty Good Internet n DSL n Satellite Wireless n LMDS n Radio wireless n Protocols

Improving Access and Applications n Bandwidth offers “realism” with instructional potential for more concrete and complex symbols and visuals n Bandwidth offers “voice” and affect n Two-way offers active engagement and adaptation to learners n Synchronous offers immediacy and responsiveness

The Center & Periphery n Geography n Economics n Culture n Demographics n Technology n Community

Partners n National Science Foundation n ADEC Members (Nebraska, Washington State, North Carolina State, California, Maryland, Illinois) n San Diego NAP/CAIDA n Internet 2 –Abilene, vBNS+ n Educause n Tachyon

Project Goals n Explore and evaluate hybred networks, including satellite technology and wireless solutions for underserved audiences; and n Explore and evaluate the deployment of research and education applications in a variety of institutional and community settings

Research objectives include: n Studying the technology: requirements for satellite based IP network, QOS for last mile, network performance measurements, protocols etc. n Defining the agenda for teaching/learning applications n Appropriate Business Models- cost/benefit

ADEC Network

Equipment configuration n TAPs *KU Band, VSAT, <1 meter dish, ethernet n Tachyon Gateway *San Diego NAP/DS3 connection n Communication Server *Data collection services, Chariot sofware, web board

Differentiated Service

Core Institutions n North Carolina State n North Carolina A&T n University of Illinois n University of Nebraska n University of California n Washington State University

Project Team n Kevin Gamble - Project Director n Randy Ross - Tribal Coordinator n Dan Godfrey - HBCU Coordinator n Engineering Team Leader - Dale Finkelson, UNL n Applications Coordinator - Dan Cotton

Educational Effectiveness n Blue Ribbon Team n Criteria for Site Selection n Attribute Analysis - Dillion n Communication Research - Gibson n Sociological Research - Rhodes n Community Analysis - Flora

Cooperation with EPSCoR n Add on Projects for EPSCoR States n International - Mexico n Development of Projects with Other Funding Sources

eArmyU n PriceWaterhouse Coopers n 29 Initial Institutions n SOC and SOCAD n Council for Academic Management (CAM) n Tribal Colleges - HBCUs - Hispanic Serving Institutions