1. 7/8/20011 WNY High Performance Networked Video Initiative (WNY-HPNVI) Partnership for Regional Internetworking July 11, 2001 Nichols School – 10:00 am

2. 7/8/20012 WNY-HPNVI WNY-HPNVI WNY High Performance Networked Video Initiative Partnership for Regional Internetworking  Agenda:  Welcome (Carol Kostyniak)  Introduction and history of committee  Carol Kostyniak- BISSNET  Jim Whitlock – UB/WNY-HPNVI  Dave Ellis- ECMC  Introduction by participants  Discussion of common needs and partnership  Videoconferencing  Dark Fiber  Regional Internetworking Issues  Define future steps  Closing

3. 7/8/20013 WNY-HPNVI WNY-HPNVI WNY High Performance Networked Video Initiative  WNY-HPNVI –A regional association of IP-video technology early adopters in education, healthcare, and government service delivery.  P artnership for R egional I nternetworking – PRI –A working group of the WNY-HPNVI with immediate interests in shared public-benefit regional inter-networks.

4. 7/8/20014 WNY-HPNVI WNY-HPNVI WNY High Performance Networked Video Initiative  Why form a Working Group? Immediate related IP-Video based applications Limited high quality regional inter-networking Overlapped regional constituencies Shared capital and operating expenses –Immediately benefits all Successive issues will require regional action Need to build and promote a regional approach and to take the steps necessary to proceed –Willingness to set aside turf issues

5. 7/8/20015 WNY-HPNVI WNY-HPNVI WNY High Performance Networked Video Initiative  WNY-HPNVI PRI Working Group –A partnership of those with immediate regional IP-video transport interests –Representatives at June 13 meeting – early adopters BISSNET Daemen College Erie County Medical Center University at Buffalo D’Youville College PremCom Veraview Cisco Applecore

6. 7/8/20016 WNY-HPNVI WNY-HPNVI WNY High Performance Networked Video Initiative Partnership for Regional Internetworking  Immediate IP-Video Needs (Public Benefit): –High Quality video transmission –Regional interconnectivity Education, Healthcare, Government Non-proprietary, non-exclusionary –Shared common infrastructure MCU, gateway, gatekeeper, dial plan –Shared expertise –Staff Support to manage 320 and 323 assets –Security Protect intellectual property and prevent hacking

7. 7/8/20017 WNY-HPNVI WNY-HPNVI WNY High Performance Networked Video Initiative Partnership for Regional Internetworking  Regional Models for Public Benefit Including: –“400 Municipal Dark Fiber build plans in North America” St. Arnaud, CANARIE –Missouri Statewide videoconference network under State Division of Information Services (1996) –Minnesota Fiber backbone across state with free telecommunications service to k-12 schools, libraries, higher education and state and local government agencies (RFP, 1996) –Blacksburg, Virginia (Electronic Village) pop. <10,000 –Ohio, Illinois, Maryland, San Diego, Chicago

8. 7/8/20018 WNY-HPNVI WNY-HPNVI WNY High Performance Networked Video Initiative Partnership for Regional Internetworking  Participant introduction –How are you using or plan to use videoconferencing? –Current Telecommunications carrier and Internet Provider

9. 7/8/20019 WNY-HPNVI WNY-HPNVI WNY High Performance Networked Video Initiative Partnership for Regional Internetworking  Problems to solve: Funding and maintaining expensive centralized equipment (MCU, Gateway, Gatekeeper) Ending the long expensive Internet Taxi-rides for public benefit applications –Doing so at no marginal cost to the taxpayer or region –Showing the taxi companies how they’ll survive the changes Building an actual Information Highway as a regional enabling infrastructure

10. 7/8/200110 WNY-HPNVI WNY-HPNVI WNY High Performance Networked Video Initiative Partnership for Regional Internetworking  I thought we already had an Information Highway? Highways are built, owned and maintained by the public for the public benefit Use of the Highways is free to citizens and reasonably priced to commercial transport firms Transport routes and fares are determined in the marketplace by traditional supply and demand Anyone is free to transport on the highways over any route using any service, including their own That’s not the way the Internet works today –But it could … At least for our citizens

11. 7/8/200111 WNY-HPNVI WNY-HPNVI WNY High Performance Networked Video Initiative Partnership for Regional Internetworking  So what’s this long expensive taxi-ride all about? Managed Services (taxi-rides) only No control over route Crossing the street usually requires 17 router hops and a ride through New York City Every router hop adds losses and other killer impairments Every router hop adds to the fare Taxis take you 3 blocks via NYC at enormous expense and lose your bags along the way!

12. 7/8/200112 WNY-HPNVI WNY-HPNVI WNY High Performance Networked Video Initiative Partnership for Regional Internetworking  Regional Public Benefit Issues: 1.Immediate – shared local production support 2.Local Peering 3.I2 access (new Conditions of Use) 4.Dark Fiber 5.Carrier Neutral Co-location 6.Traffic Aggregation (IP-Telephony)

13. 7/8/200113 WNY-HPNVI WNY-HPNVI WNY High Performance Networked Video Initiative Partnership for Regional Internetworking  Benefits –Immediate (IP-Video) Reduced costs due to shared capital assets Increased functionality –Long-term (Public Benefit Regional Solutions) Can be accomplished at NO COST beyond capitalized operating expenditures!! Virtually NO CEILING on bandwidth for public buildings

14. 7/8/200114 WNY-HPNVI WNY-HPNVI WNY High Performance Networked Video Initiative Partnership for Regional Internetworking Thanks for your time. Please join us as we help bring the future to WNY today!