Annual Business Meeting

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Annual Business Meeting

• May 1, 2001

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House Keeper

• Board Member Voting Closes at 830

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Budget Listed by Service
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Budget Listed by Service
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Service Breakdown
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Are We Doubling?

• Internet Access up 130 from last year
• Oct. Estimates within 5 of April Readings
• Filter Requests
• March 21,2000 4.3M
• March 21, 2001 8.3M
• Peers Traffic Increased by 3x

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This Year At-a-glance

• Comprehensive Communication Plan
• 15 New Communications From Regional Meetings to
  Newsletters
• New Filtering Service
• E-Community ie
• New Budget Model
• New Provider Qwest Eau Claire

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Survey

• 48 Pages http//www.wiscnet.net/survey2001/
• Establish A Benchmark
• Overall, members are satisfied to very satisfied
  with service (lt 20 negative responses to general
  satisfaction question)
• Comprehensive Communication Plan is a valued
  addition
• Technical support gets very high marks

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Survey Continued

• Filtering is bittersweet. They like the speed
  improvement, dont like the editorial stuff
• Performance Is generally good with the exception
  of some video nets.
• People want more, more, more for a reasonable
  costP
• Folks have a clear vision that their needs will
  grow and grow with clearly defined applications

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Filtering

• Last Year Brand New Hybrid Filtering/Caching
  System
• This Year
• New Filtering Newsletter
• Clear Policy of Service
• Partnering with Xstop
• Help them Understand the K-12 Market
• Breakout Session Later 1130

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Strategic Plan

• The Strength and Resources of the Members is
  WiscNet
• The result Value-added network resources
  available to all educators, researchers, and
  public service entities in Wisconsin.

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Strategic Plan - Continued

• ESP Philosophies
• Look for valued services that compliment our core
  strength
• Leverage Members Strength
• Rely on Co-op Model
• Minimize Duplication with Members and Partners
• Content and Information Delivery
• Aggregate Costs

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Where are we going

• Caching
• Traffic Flow Analysis
• Aid Video Nets with Access
• Understand/Develop/Grow Regional Nets
• Populate MyWiscNet
• Tech. Staffing Increase
• Tech. Support Manager
• Tech. Support Person
• Backbone Engineer (Kind of )

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Where are we going - More

• Internet 2 Service
• Peer, Peer, Peer . . .
• More Communications
• same
• ie. Advisor Groups)
• New EMail WiscMail Service
• Variety of Hosting Services (SchoolCenter,
  Plato, Geocities-like)

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Internet 2

• Allowing Regional Nets to Connect
• Access for New Applications
• Virtual Tours
• Tele-immersion
• Real-time Shared Virtual Reality
• Advance Video
• 3-D Animations
• Teacher Training for New Applications
• We need to be practical Access I1, Qwest,
  Abilene
• Partners UW Mad, UW Milw, Med Coll UW System
• Cost born by Members USING service ONLY

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Net2Net Partnership

• www.wiscnet.net/net2net/
• Why?
• Cost savings buying in bulk
• Timesaving in Installs
• Reduced Risk for Installs
• Sharing Opportunities for Transit Providers
• More Large Nets may peer with us
• Reduction if Overhead (engineer, purchasing, etc)
• Future Attract CDNs
• Future Attract other Regional Nets

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95 Reading Level
If there were 100 readings, we would dismiss the
highest 5